For World Wide Technology (WWT) database performance is everything. The company does $4.2 billion a year in sales providing technology products, services, and global supply chain solutions to some of the world’s biggest companies. Seeking a new infrastructure to support increasing business capacity, WWT enlisted Pythian’s expertise. The mission: a massive Oracle database upgrade and migration to be completed quickly and with minimum downtime. The outcome: Pythian helped WWT to beat its downtime window by 4 hours— even with additional project scope. WWT was running its mission-critical enterprise resource planning (ERP) application on a four-year-old server. The company’s entire global warehouse operations interacted with this platform, which couldn’t scale easily, provide a cost-effective disaster recovery solution, or deliver high availability. With processing capacity maxed out—and 500,000 to 3,500,000 transactions an hour on the line—WWT had grown to the point where its hardware could not meet business requirements.

With Pythian’s expertise, WWT beat its downtime window by 4 hours— even with additional project scope. The project will save WWT more than $1 million over 3 years compared to its old platform. WWT’s new architecture delivers: - Increased capacity by 60% - Improved performance—business processes run up to 4x faster - Removed 14 servers from WWT’s datacenter, reducing annual maintenance costs - More uptime with new highly available, scalable, and cost-effective disaster recovery solution - Improved manageability and efficiency