NCH Corporation: Five Years, USD 5.5 Million Saved
Database migration from RISC platform to Intel® Xeon® processor 7540 nets savings and speedup for NCH
NCH Corporation, a leading global provider of industrial maintenance solutions, needed to establish a new instance of its global Oracle* database. A key decision: maintain consistency with the current IBM AIX* RISC-based platform, or deploy the new instance on the Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series? NCH chose the Intel® processor-based solution, and says the decision will save the company USD 5.5 million over five years in hard costs. The project also triples performance, reduces risk, and delivers critical business functionality.
Challenges
• Business flexibility.
NCH’s European operation needed to implement new business functionality in the company’s mission-critical Oracle database without affecting the global business logic.
• High cost of RISC infrastructure.
The project team decided to create a new instance of the database, but didn’t like the high costs of replicating its 16-processor, dual-core IBM P5 AIX* system.
Solution
• Intel Xeon processor 7500 series for new platform and future growth.
NCH’s IT team created the new database instance on a Dell PowerEdge* 810 server running Linux* and the Intel® Xeon® processor 7540. When the global instance needs new capacity in two years, the team plans to migrate it to the Intel® architecture as well.
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NCH Corporation: Five Years, USD 5.5 Million Saved
Database migration from RISC platform to Intel® Xeon® processor 7540 nets savings and speedup for NCH
NCH Corporation, a leading global provider of industrial maintenance solutions, needed to establish a new instance of its global Oracle* database. A key decision: maintain consistency with the current IBM AIX* RISC-based platform, or deploy the new instance on the Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series? NCH chose the Intel® processor-based solution, and says the decision will save the company USD 5.5 million over five years in hard costs. The project also triples performance, reduces risk, and delivers critical business functionality.
Challenges
• Business flexibility.
NCH’s European operation needed to implement new business functionality in the company’s mission-critical Oracle database without affecting the global business logic.
• High cost of RISC infrastructure.
The project team decided to create a new instance of the database, but didn’t like the high costs of replicating its 16-processor, dual-core IBM P5 AIX* system.
Solution
• Intel Xeon processor 7500 series for new platform and future growth.
NCH’s IT team created the new database instance on a Dell PowerEdge* 810 server running Linux* and the Intel® Xeon® processor 7540. When the global instance needs new capacity in two years, the team plans to migrate it to the Intel® architecture as well.
Read the full NCH Corporation: Five Years, USD 5.5 Million Saved Case Study.
