HAVI Customer Success Story: OCI and Hybrid Exadata DR Solution
HAVI is a global, privately owned company focused on innovating, optimizing and managing the supply chains of leading brands, with a focus on food service and convenience. Offering services in marketing analytics, packaging, supply chain management and logistics, HAVI partners with companies to address challenges big and small across the supply chain, from commodity to customer. HAVI needed to scale its customer inventory forecasting service and implemented a solution based on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Per its cloud-first strategy, the company also wanted to deploy a database disaster recovery (DR) solution that would leverage an Oracle Cloud site that was remote from its production facility. HAVI worked with Oracle and Equinix to colocate its production Exadata data warehouse in an Equinix IBX data center in Chicago and create a DR environment leveraging Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in an Equinix IBX in the Washington, D.C. area. HAVI chose Equinix not only for its global footprint that closely matched its own, but also because of its dedicated interconnection with Oracle Cloud via OCI FastConnect worldwide. HAVI interconnected the primary site to the DR site via ECX Fabric and was able to transport the data from the primary database servers to its Ashburn DR site and upload to the Oracle Cloud via OCI FastConnect. The Exadata-based data warehouse helped the company produce 5.6 billion forecasts a day while realizing a performance improvement of up to 30% with a five-fold increase in workload. Currently, HAVI moves 12–15 TB daily over ECX Fabric to their DR site and then to Oracle Cloud via OCI FastConnect, from which they can restore operations for DR. The company reports an overall cost savings of up to 35%. As HAVI Director of Global Data Services Arti Deshpande said at an Oracle OpenWorld panel, “Having an Equinix partnership with OCI FastConnect makes our system run rock solid.”
HAVI is a global, privately owned company focused on innovating, optimizing and managing the supply chains of leading brands, with a focus on food service and convenience. Offering services in marketing analytics, packaging, supply chain management and logistics, HAVI partners with companies to address challenges big and small across the supply chain, from commodity to customer. HAVI needed to scale its customer inventory forecasting service and implemented a solution based on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Per its cloud-first strategy, the company also wanted to deploy a database disaster recovery (DR) solution that would leverage an Oracle Cloud site that was remote from its production facility. HAVI worked with Oracle and Equinix to colocate its production Exadata data warehouse in an Equinix IBX data center in Chicago and create a DR environment leveraging Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in an Equinix IBX in the Washington, D.C. area. HAVI chose Equinix not only for its global footprint that closely matched its own, but also because of its dedicated interconnection with Oracle Cloud via OCI FastConnect worldwide. HAVI interconnected the primary site to the DR site via ECX Fabric and was able to transport the data from the primary database servers to its Ashburn DR site and upload to the Oracle Cloud via OCI FastConnect. The Exadata-based data warehouse helped the company produce 5.6 billion forecasts a day while realizing a performance improvement of up to 30% with a five-fold increase in workload. Currently, HAVI moves 12–15 TB daily over ECX Fabric to their DR site and then to Oracle Cloud via OCI FastConnect, from which they can restore operations for DR. The company reports an overall cost savings of up to 35%. As HAVI Director of Global Data Services Arti Deshpande said at an Oracle OpenWorld panel, “Having an Equinix partnership with OCI FastConnect makes our system run rock solid.”