Oracle Financial Keeps Fiscally Fit

20.11.2009
Oracle Financial Services Software(OFSS) caters to banking and capital market companies across the world. Part of what it offers its customers is the ability to cut costs and respond rapidly. But it was having a hard time practicing what it was preaching.

-- The IT facility management team used in-house virtualization software to shrink the physical server count from 225 to 15.

-- After migrating data from standalone servers to virtual servers with shared storage, OFSS saved 5TB of disk space and will save Rs 3.8 crore (US$817,016) annually.

Part of the reason was the ever-increasing demand from business users for development and testing environments. Their constant requests had created a 225-server sprawl. "Many of these servers were underutilized and even unused at times," says S. Hariharan, Sr. VP Infrastructure Solutions and Services Group, Oracle Financial Services Software.

This situation also put the company's datacenter under stress. It was a challenge, says Hariharan, to control and manage the costs of multiple servers at multiple locations and also to ensure they had effective security controls and to be able to scale up.