The State of Utah needed to move 19 Oracle databases and more than 50 of its core business systems to the cloud. Leveraging Dito’s expertise and its Oracle BMS inaBOX accelerator, they were able to migrate to a GCP integrated system with improved failover capabilities and no increase in Oracle cost.
Challenge
The State of Utah wanted to move its applications to the cloud as part of a data center exit strategy. This included more than 50 of UDOT’s core business systems that rely on Oracle. Many of these systems were developed more than 10 year ago on outdated Oracle software. The applications and databases were tightly coupled. Most of the production systems were supported by 3 database instances.
Solution
Using Google’s Bare Metal solution and Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM), Dito engineers designed and implemented a system which allowed them to migrate 19 Oracle databases and 50 applications to a GCP integrated system with no increase in their Oracle licensing costs and significantly improved failover capabilities.
This was supported by deep Oracle expertise and Dito’s inaBOX accelerator to facilitate the migration of Oracle workloads to Google Cloud Platform.
Results
UDOT were able to vacate their on-premises data center with minimal disruption to business operations. 19 Oracle databases and more than 50 associated applications were migrated from a VMware cluster running on legacy hardware to enterprise grade servers equipped with latest Intel Cascade Lake processors. These were configured using OLVM to provide a more robust system integrated with Google Cloud.
Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) was a flagship early adopter for BMS in GPS (1st in US, 2nd in the world). UDOT procured BMS to lift-and-shift their applications to the cloud to leverage Google Cloud Platform products. This migration provided a foundation for future application modernization projects.
