HPE U6GY2E Getting Started Guide
Case Study
Pella increases
infrastructure performance
Objective
Move to open systems to reduce
operating expense, avoid licensing costs
and deliver incremental capacity
Approach
Migrate to HPE Integrity Superdome X
Servers running Linux to avoid
incremental licensing costs while
improving performance and scalability
IT Matters
• Migrate Oracle databases to an open
systems environment
• Ensure redundancy and disaster
recovery for mission-critical ERP, human
resources, data warehousing and order
processing applications
• Port 26 production databases from UNIX
to Linux
• Preserve always-on availability of critical
databases and applications
Business Matters
• Ensured 7x24x365 operations while
porting business-critical applications and
databases
• Saved $200,000 per year in operating
expenses
• Avoided incremental Oracle database
licence investments of $200,000 as well
as associated ongoing support costs
• Significantly improved server
performance and long-term capacity
• Maximised ROI by shifting from a leasing
model to a purchasing model for server
infrastructure
and scalability
Modernises IT and avoids costs by migrating
to HPE Integrity Superdome X
Pella needed a reliable,
scalable and highperforming infrastructure
that could also help reduce
its Oracle software licensing
costs. Pella selected the
Superdome X running
Linux to support its Oracle
Business Suite and Oracle
Database 10g environment
and achieve its performance,
scalability and cost
objectives.
Founded in 1925, Pella Corporation
manufactures its premium-quality windows
and doors at 10 locations across the United
States. This industry innovator produces both
standardised and made-to-order products
according to lean manufacturing principles.
Following a continuous improvement process
model, Pella delivers high-quality products
to customers while squeezing out waste as
eiciently as possible.
Case study
Pella
Industry
Manufacturing
“We embrace the scalability, flexibility and long-term economics of
Superdome X. It allows us to reduce our operational costs and avoid
incremental Oracle licensing costs. In addition, we have the flexibility to scale
up and scale out to support increased performance requirements for our
mission-critical ERP applications over time.”
– Jim Thomas, Director of IT Operations, Pella
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Thousands of customer
orders flow into Pella’s
Oracle-based enterprise
resource planning (ERP)
system each day from
the firm’s network of
showrooms as well as from
leading retailers. Because
its products are highly
configurable, Pella custommanufactures a high
percentage of its windows
and doors and operates a
very large Oracle database
to track the massive volume
of configurable products it
manages.
Pella sought to increase the performance and
scalability of its Oracle Business Suite ERP
applications and Oracle 10G database, while
driving down operational costs and avoiding
a significant Oracle licensing investment. Pella
had been relying on HPE Superdome servers
for nine years, and as the lease for its HPE
Integrity Superdome 2 Servers was reaching
its expiration date, Pella evaluated its options.
“We were extremely happy with Superdome
servers and the HP-UX operating system
but changes in the Oracle software licensing
model drove us to evaluate open system
platforms,” says Jim Thomas, director of IT
Operations. “Many years ago it was the other
way around, but now we’re making more
strategic IT decisions based on software
costs. We wanted to drive down our operation
costs and avoid incremental licensing costs,
so we looked at x86 server platforms running
Linux so we could best manage our software
licence expenses.”
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