Case Study
A Technical White Paper on Hybrid IT Modernization
Executive Summary
As enterprises grow through mergers and acquisitions, legacy on-premises infrastructure often becomes a bottleneck for critical business processes. This paper examines the transformation of U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc., a leading commercial silica producer. By architecting a redundant, interconnected hybrid cloud environment using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Platform Equinix®, Datatility enabled a 10x performance increase in ERP reporting and established a resilient disaster recovery (DR) solution that cut recovery time by 85%.
10x
Faster Reporting
85%
Better DR Time
<1 Hour
Provisioning Speed
The Challenge: Legacy Limitations
U.S. Silica faced significant limitations with its legacy JD Edwards ERP environment. Key challenges included performance bottlenecks where financial reporting runtimes were measured in hours, and a lack of dedicated high-availability disaster recovery that posed a threat to business continuity.
The Datatility Solution
Datatility architected a multi-region hybrid cloud infrastructure leveraging Equinix Fabric™ and OCI FastConnect to bridge the gap between legacy systems and the cloud.
Technical Architecture Highlights:
The Core: 10 GB dark fiber connection between the enterprise data center and the Equinix IBX facility in Ashburn, VA.
Hybrid Connectivity: 1 GB software-defined interconnection to Oracle Cloud.
Multi-Region Redundancy: Real-time synchronized DR environment in Phoenix, AZ.
Once we had that initial connection up on Equinix Fabric, we could provision U.S. Silica to any Oracle Cloud instance within under an hour.
Realized Benefits
Operational Velocity: Network provisioning reduced from 60-120 days to just 72 hours.
Enterprise Performance: Financial reporting reduced from hours to minutes.
Resilient Recovery: Recovery time of under three hours using Oracle Active Data Guard.