Smart Database Replication

How much does 30 minutes of down time cost your business?

Maintenance overheads aside, think about the opportunity costs in lost productivity. Now imagine a 16 hour downtime. Will your company operations be hurt because of inaccessibility to critical data? In the US, 43% companies never reopen after a major disaster*, and only 7% survive for an additional 5 years**.

While we cannot control external forces – natural, human or technical; we can control the impact they have on our businesses. No company is immune to such catastrophes. Companies are protecting their data against disruptions more seriously today with contingency plans and standby servers, because of our excessive dependencies on machines.

Time or data loss has huge costs in terms of overheads and lost opportunities. Loosing integral data to disasters not only impacts the security and finances of your business, it jeopardizes its existence completely.

So the question is, how prepared are you to face such unforeseen situations? Do you have the peace of mind that no matter what happens, your company’s data will be protected and your business will continue without stalling even for a moment?

Your business success, bottom line, and growth depend on how prepared and secure your systems and processes are at all times.

You won’t ever have to recover from disasters, if you are ready for them.

(* US Small Business administration)
(** US Bureau of Labour)

We are very pleased to have SETRA Conseil as a Dbvisit reseller in France.  SETRA Conseil have a very experienced team of Oracle professionals with clients in Nice, Marseille, Montpellier, Lyon, Grenoble and  Paris plus Monaco. They are very experienced with Oracle Disaster Recovery, Standby Database, Oracle RAC and general Oracle consulting and can offer local Dbvisit support.

Welcome aboard.

I was very pleased to be invited by Francisco Munoz Alvarez to present at the first Chilean Oracle User Group. My presentation was scheduled on the 14th April (the second day of the conference) and we arrived well in time on the 11th of April. We were on the same flight as Francisco from New Zealand and he very kindly gave us a lift to the hotel from the airport. We had a few days to get used to the time differrence and enjoy the beatiful sites of Santiago. It is a very nice city and with a lot of interesting sites and places to see.

On the first day of the conference I had a chance to meet some of the Oracle ACE directors including Dan Morgan, Ben Prusinski, Robert Freeman, Hans Forbrich, Dennis Remmer, Tim Hall, Plinio Arbizu, Mauricio Naranjo and Graham Wood. It was a privilege to be presenting along side people that have given so much back to the Oracle community over the years.

Francisco did a great job of organising the whole event and most of it from New Zealand! The venue was great and the sessions were are also very interesting.

The second day of the conference it was time for my presentation. My paper was on “How to create a Technical Disaster Recovery Implementation plan“. The paper focuses on the plan of the actual implementation of the hardware and software at the disaster recovery location.
This plan ensures there are no unforeseen surprises when building the disaster recovery solution and that all critical systems and their components have been accounted for. This paper focuses mainly on Oracle centric applications in Unix/Linux environment. The Technical Disaster Recovery Implementation plan includes:

• Creating a technical register of applications and servers.
• Creating application consistency groups (different application must work together consistently to guarantee integrity in the data).
• Define a server mapping (either one-to-one or many-to-one). Will each primary server have its own disaster recovery server, or will several primary servers be consolidated to one disaster recovery server.
• Creating a configuration register for each primary server including OS, patches, firewall rules, etc.
• Software licenses and media considerations.
• Synchronisation methodology.
• Oracle standby database implementation.
• Best practise primary servers.
• Best practice standby servers.

I had to remember to speak slowly as everything was being translated from English to Spanish. I was very happy with the presentation and had a few questions at the end. Always a good sign I think!

During the social time, I had the pleasure of getting to know Ben Prusinski, Hans Forbrich, Dennis Remmer and Tim Hall a little better.

After the conference we were in Chile for another 4 days and did some more site seeing in Santiago and around the area.