Although the US to Dominican Peso exchange rate (37.5 DOP=1USD) places pressure on all business in The Dominican Republic, Ramon’s challenges are more to do with long sales cycles and the need to convince businesses about the necessity of having a robust disaster recovery solution in place. The financial services sector is one that understands this requirement only too well. Reeg’s latest sale to Banco Caribe, one of the Carribean’s largest financial institutes, is testament to this fact.

Ramon consulted with Banco Caribe for two years. Initially they tried replicating using RMAN but after finding and testing Dbvisit Standby he recommended this as a superior solution.

‘The ease with which the solution could be implemented, along with the price and the support provided during this period was the main draw card for the Bank. The fact that I had worked so closely with them for a long time and was endorsing Dbvisit Standby also meant they could be certain that it would provide them with a robust solution’ explains Ramon. The configuration chosen by the bank assures them maximum disaster recovery coverage with two standby databases, one in the head office data centre in Santo Domingo and the other approximately 160kms away in the  second biggest city of the country, Santiago de los Caballeros.

For more information about Reeg Co, SRL and the services they offer please see http://www.reegco.com/

PebbleIT’s most recent sale and implementation of Dbvisit has been at QBEInsurance Australia, Australia’s largest international insurer¹ with offices in 49 countries and over 13,500 staff worldwide. QBE needed to sync their local systems to remote standby databases located offshore and chose Dbvisit because of its functionality and price.

Raymond Allo, the technical lead on the project, advised the benefits to QBE of using Dbvisit as an Oracle Data Guard alternative. “It was easy to convince QBE to utilise Dbvisit as they could clearly see the cost saving to the organisation. Some applications do not require the features of Oracle Enterprise Edition and are adequately served by Standard or Standard Edition One. Also, Dbvisit does not require changes to be made to the init.ora file like Data Guard.” He also noted that Dbvisit was effectively handling transportation of data between a primary and standby site so far apart. “There was the tyranny of distance and bandwidth to get the initial copy of the database over to the US, but after that Dbvisit is very efficient at handling the log shipping”.

PebbleIT, founded in 2003 by Managing Director Marck Moscatelli and based in Sydney Australia became a Dbvisit reseller in 2007. While the business initially focused on delivering database-related services, the strong relationships they formed with their customers meant they soon moved into providing a more diverse range of IT services as required. This includes Application and web development, consulting and Managed Services, remote DBA Support, database development and migration, and a software license advisory service.

Pebble IT’s license advisory service has seen them become the trusted advisors to their customers and help companies such as Nielsen, AMCOR and National Health and Medical Research Council not only save $100,000′s in licence costs but also significantly reduce annual maintenance fees.

PebbleIT’s commitment to providing products which allow exceptional ROI to their clients means that Dbvisit is a natural fit for the company’s ethos of value through innovation, simplicity and personalised service.

For more information about PebbleIT and their services please visit their website at www.pebbleit.com.au.

1.       As measured by gross written premium. Source: http://www.qbe.com.au/Australia/About-QBE/Insurance.html

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