Operating a complete and integrated stack of
Oracle applications, platform, and infrastructure
software, Oracle’s Austin Data Center (ADC) is
a 130,000-square-foot building with 82,000
square feet of raised floor space, nearly 20,000
servers, and nearly 10 petabytes of storage. The
ADC is the cloud choice for many organizations.
“We have the necessary technology components in place to offer a virtual private cloud in
our ADC, including the applications, platform,
and infrastructure layers, all of which offer the
unmatched flexibility, security, and choice that
businesses have come to expect from Oracle,”
says Joanne Olsen, senior vice president, Oracle
On Demand cloud services.
Described by Michael Beck, senior vice
president of Oracle On Demand, as the “quint-
essential coming together of all of Oracle’s key
technologies, including software, engineering,
and operational experience,” the ADC handles the
computing needs of hundreds of customers by
provisioning and maintaining all of the hardware
and operating systems, backing up those systems,
and providing the necessary environments for
production, testing, and developing new capabili-
ties. The ADC also supports a high-speed network
with bandwidth and diverse carriers to ensure
constant connectivity along with increased resil-
ience through carrier and route diversity, hard-
ware redundancy, and dual links for network hubs.
supply chain and our financial situation as it relates to our busi-
nesses, our products, and our customers,” explains Gary Fling, CIO
at Phibro. “We were seeking an integrated solution like JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne On Demand to replace our disparate legacy systems
with a global, standard, and scalable ERP system. With JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne On Demand, we have been able to implement best
practices for transaction processing within all of our divisions while
applying global standards for our chart of accounts, inventory clas-
sifications, and coding structures.”
Since starting its deployment in 2009, Phibro has implemented
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne On Demand at its corporate site and each
of its major divisions, and lessons have been learned with each suc-
cessive deployment. “Each time, we have improved our implementa-
tion with greater attention to change management, user training,
and adoption and application of global standards and processes,”
says Fling.
With the deployment of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne On Demand,
Fling says he’s very glad to be in the cloud. “Cloud computing is
in line with my philosophies of IT. When I think about how IT can
provide solutions and services to an organization like Phibro, I have
a flexible capacity model in mind. For commodity-driven IT services,
I look to vendors for hosting or cohosting opportunities in order to
provide cost-effective, repeatable, and sustainable solutions. That
frees up our precious internal I T resources to concentrate on
business-aligned, value-added solutions and services,” Fling says.
“We’re definitely happy with the decision we made.”
Phibro are looking to Oracle cloud services as a way to make I T much
more responsive to the business, while keeping IT management and
infrastructure costs down.
Marta Bright is a senior writer with Oracle Publishing.
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