LGR Telecommunications

LGR’s market-leadership in telco data warehouses was a primary reason that Oracle selected it in 2007 to be a lead beta-tester of the revolutionary new Oracle Exadata DW platform. Following extensive benchmark testing against its largest production systems, LGR was able to conclusively prove that Exadata provided a 20X performance benefit over traditional DW architectures.

Because of this, as well as the numerous additional business benefits associated with Oracle Exadata, LGR has chosen it as its preferred DW platform moving forward and is actively involved in numerous Oracle Exadata installations around the globe.

Some Exadata Detail

The Sun Oracle Database Machine combines industry-standard hardware from Sun, Oracle Database 11g Release 2, and Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software to create a faster, more versatile database machine. It’s a completely scalable and fault-tolerant package for all data management, including data warehousing and transaction processing applications.

The Sun Oracle Database Machine also includes Sun’s new FlashFire technology to cache “hot” data for dramatically improved transaction response times and throughput. With the Sun Oracle Database Machine, customers can consolidate all their database applications, store up to 10 times more data, search data up to 10 times faster, and make faster business decisions in real time without making changes to applications.

Benefits of the Sun Oracle Database Machine include:

• Extreme Performance for Data Warehouses: Improves both query performance and concurrency by offloading intensive query processing and data mining scoring from database servers and bringing it closer to the data.
• Extreme Performance for OLTP Applications: Addresses the disk random I/O bottleneck problem by transparently moving hot data to Sun FlashFire. You get 10 times faster I/O response time and use 10 times fewer disks for business applications from Oracle as well as third-party providers.
• Extreme Performance for Mixed Workloads: Allows you to consolidate data warehousing, transaction processing, and mixed workloads on a massively parallel server grid and eliminate the cost of third-party specialty hardware, security, and management solutions.

Oracle DW Architect of the Year

Following the successful installation of one of the world’s largest commercial data warehouses, as well as extensive involvement in the beta-testing and roll-out of Oracle Exadata, LGR’s chief architect, Hannes van Rooyen, was recipient of the prestigious Oracle Data Warehouse Architect of the Year Award in 2008.