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Oracle Customer Success—Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd.
Tata Power Delhi Distribution Cuts Operating Expense with Oracle PaaS
ShareBy replacing EMC’s LTO tape drives with Oracle Database Backup Cloud Service, we have shortened our backup time by 3x, restored critical data 8x faster, and reduced operating expense. It also enabled us minimize risk, gain 24/7 access to backups via internet, and support expansion to other applications.
Tata Power Delhi Distribution Cuts Database Backup Time by 3x, Restores Critical Data 8x Faster, Reduces Operating Expense, and Minimizes Risk
Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd. (Tata Power-DDL), a subsidiary of Tata Group, provides electricity to 7 million consumers in Delhi’s North and Northwest. The utility also transformed its power distribution business by implementing high-tech automated systems—including remote grid and outage management systems.
Tata Power-DDL used to store a large volume of consumer data on EMC’s LTO tape drives and then ship the tapes to an offsite location via a courier agency. It was time consuming and costly to transport tapes from one location to another and involved risk of data breach. To meet regulatory requirements and mitigate risk, Tata Power-DDL needed to adopt a disaster recovery solution that shortened its database backup and restoration time and reduced operating expenditure (OpEx).
Business Challenge
- Improve the efficiency to backup a large volume of data for two critical applications—revenue collection and maintenance—and cut the electricity provider’s OpEx by automating database backup process instead of transporting up to 15 physical tapes daily to an offsite location
- Ensure consumer data security and meet regulatory electrical requirements by enabling end-to-end data protection via the cloud rather than using tapes
- Gain ability to quickly access and restore the database from a backup database at any time and from anywhere
Results
- Minimized disruption to the utility’s operations by using a high performance and highly available Oracle Database Backup Cloud Service to backup critical revenue collection and maintenance data up to 3x faster—just 11 hours instead of 32 hours—and restore the database up to 8x faster—in 5.5 hours compared to 40 hours
- Cut OpEx—including 3,000 tapes, courier service, 2 data center operators, and 1 backup administrator—by roughly US$10,000 by using pay-as-you-go model with Oracle Database Backup Cloud Service rather than purchasing and transporting physical tapes, maintaining equipment, and deploying resources to perform manual backup
- Ensured continuous access to critical business information, such as revenue collection and maintenance schedules for electrification projects, and met compliance requirements by enabling 24/7 access to backups anywhere via internet rather than waiting for two days to transport the tapes from offsite and restore the data onsite
- Reduced business risk and enhanced data security by eliminating possible loss of backup tapes in transit and minimizing opportunities for data breaches
- Enabled IT staff to focus on more strategic tasks, such as analyzing and improving the backup window, rather than spending time to make multiple copies of backups
- Supported future expansion to other critical applications by gaining virtually unlimited capacity and no upfront capital expenditure with Oracle Database Backup Cloud Service
We adopted Oracle Database Backup Cloud Service because of its superior encryption and compression capabilities—features that vendors like Amazon, Nextra, and Rackspace could not offer. The solution also provided the unlimited scalability and high level of integration our business required.
Execution
After conducting a proof of concept and analysis of backup requirements, such as database size, internet speed, and restoration time, Tata Power-DDL completed the configuration for Oracle Database Backup Cloud Service in less than 4 days and went live with the new platform in just 15 days.
“Oracle Database Backup Cloud Service is so convenient, easy, and quick to implement. It also fits well into our overall cloud strategy,” Taneja said.
About Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd.
Headquarters
Delhi, India
Employees
3,500
Annual Revenue
US$738 million
Founded in 2002, Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd. (Tata Power-DDL) is a joint venture between Tata Power and the Government of the Delhi National Capital Territory (NCT). It distributes electricity to consumers across an area of 510 sq kms. With its innovative operational practices, Tata Power-DDL increased the overall efficiency of power distribution in the NCT by 82% and received eight successive Asian Power Awards.