Holding YDUQS modernizes its IT Infrastructure by partnering with Cirion and Oracle

Updating the computing environment, with the migration to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, allows YDUQS to focus on its strategic objectives, while optimizing its costs, offering greater service availability and improving the student experience

São Paulo, March 6, 2024 – YDUQS, one of Brazil’s most important educational groups retained the technological services of Cirion Technologies, a leading provider of digital infrastructure and technology to migrate all the production databases of the institution to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer environment, thus updating their business support infrastructure.

YDUQS offers a diverse portfolio of educational institutions, including — Estácio, Ibmec, IDOMED, Wyden and Damásio, covering a wide range of courses and modalities.

In 2020, YDUQS sought to upgrade its IT infrastructure to tackle the growing challenges of the educational market. The institution needed a flexible, scalable and secure solution, which also offered high performance and availability for their critical systems.

Further to a rigorous selection process, Cirion was chosen as a technological partner, responsible for migrating all YDUQS production databases to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, deploying Universal Credits model, thus ensuring data resiliency by replicating the environment to another Data Center. The company’s new environment hosts business applications and offers greater availability of the service provided to their students, improving response time to their requests.

This solution provides the company with greater stability, flexibility and security, in addition to optimizing costs and allowing the institution to focus on its strategic objectives.

Benefits of the Solution

Migrating to Exadata provided YDUQS with several benefits, including:

Increased stability and performance: Optimized environment for Oracle Database, resulting in a significant increase in system performance and availability.
Flexibility and scalability: The solution is highly flexible and scalable, thus enabling a fast and efficient response to your needs.
Security and reliability: State-of-the-art security and reliability resources to ensure that the institution data will be protected.
Cost Optimization: Oracle’s solution offers a flexible payment model adjustable to customer needs. The institution pays a monthly recurring price for a set of basic resources (baseline), which guarantees predictability and cost control. In times of high demand, the institution can scale up the OCPUs (central processing units) and pay only for the baseline surplus. This flexibility enables IT cost optimization, paying only for the resources you use.

“YDUQS found the ideal partner in Cirion, since they provide us with daily management support, ensuring Oracle database maintenance and support. Thus our team is able to focus on our apps specifications and in our customers experience (students) sparing the complexities of support infrastructure,” said Rodrigo Coutinho, IT Director for YDUQS. “The new structure is the foundation for our business digital transformation”.

“YDUQS is a great example for the kind of challenges that Cirion can help you solve. Our professionals are trained to act from their first contact to daily operations support, evaluating IT needs based on our customers’ business demands”, said Rodrigo Oliveira, Data Centers Director for Cirion Brazil.

About YDUQS

YDUQS is an educational technology and services group, meant to raise the quality of university education in Brazil. It offers a diverse portfolio of educational institutions, covering a wide range of courses and modalities. It is the only higher education organization in the world with an “AA” ESG rating, awarded in October 2023 by MSCI, a global benchmark in evaluating corporate sustainability practices, placing them in the market top tier among publicly listed companies. Their commitment to sustainable development and the communities they serve is guided by a robust ESG strategy. Today, they are one of the largest educational groups in Brazil, home to some of the country’s most relevant educational institutions. For over five decades, their journey has been defined by a commitment to Brazilian development, the integration of digital culture and innovation, and inclusive education.

Learn more in: http://www.yduqs.com.br

About Cirion

Cirion is a leading provider of digital infrastructure and technology, offering a comprehensive suite of fiber network, connectivity, colocation, cloud infrastructure, and communication and collaboration solutions with the purpose of furthering Latin America’s progress through technology Cirion serves more than 5,500 Latin America-based and multinational clients, including enterprises, government agencies, cloud service providers, carriers, ISPs, and other leading companies. Cirion owns and operates a facilities-based network and data center portfolio, with extensive coverage spanning across the Latin America region. Learn more about Cirion at www.ciriontechnologies.com

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Cirion Technologies
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