Business Continuity solution design and implementation

Project goals:

• Remediate a malfunctioning backup solution
• Design a zero-downtime availability solution for an Oracle Exadata-based system

Accomplishments:

• The existing backup solution has been reconfigured, decreasing backups footprint by 50%, while maintaining the required redundancy KPIs
• A flexible business continuity solution has been developed, including several standardized service levels (Platinum, Gold, Silver) for different business applications
• Sub-second RPO and sub-minute RTO has been achieved for Platinum service level, even for the most devastating failure scenarios

Technologies:

• Oracle Database
• Oracle Exadata
• Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance
• Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
• Oracle Grid Infrastructure
• Oracle Real Application Clusters

Workload:

• 120 hours

Project team:

• Senior Oracle Exadata Administrator
• Senior Oracle Database Architect
• Senior Business Analyst