Pizza Hut - Continued Optimisation

RDB Concepts have supported this major high-street chain with our RDB Manage and Custodian*24 services for more than 12 years. We have managed the organisation through two major infrastructure renewals, a major reorganisation and consolidation, which together brought numerous savings for them.

The challenge is a familiar story. A core system has been running the ERP and restaurant management aspect of the business for over a decade. Changes in the business and the opportunity to implement new SaaS POS solutions, meant that the Legacy Core system, which was still needed for downstream applications needed to be migrated to a cost-effective cloud environment in order to retire ageing equipment as it was phased out.

The RDB Cloud is a database optimised cloud computing infrastructure, housed in 3 DCs in the UK. It is compliant with hard-partitioned license requirements, meaning that optimisation of the use of Oracle licenses is possible within the clusters. This is not something that can be done in Public Clouds or on traditional hypervisors such as Hyper-V or VMWare.**.

Objectives    
  1. Reduce the operational cost of the Legacy Applications:
  2. By moving to the RDB Cloud, the client was able to retire expensive production IBM Power7 servers, which were 10 years old
  3. By migrating to Oracle SE2 away from 12 Enterprise Cores, the Oracle spend was reduced by approximately 90%
  4. Provide a scaleable solution to allow for a wind-down of the application as it approaches sunset:
  5. The RDB Cloud is a scaleable environment which means that the client can (within licence restrictions) increase and decrease the resources applied to any of the servers applied to the Application Stack, allowing for a slow wind-down.