Magrabi Health, a renowned eye, dental, and ENT provider operates across the Middle East, and in 20 locations and multiple data centers throughout the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, upgraded their extensive IT operations with high availability and disaster recovery using Oracle GoldenGate in order to protect patient data and ensure continuous operations for their administrative applications.
Magrabi formalized their HA/DR operations using Oracle GoldenGate when they embarked on a hospital-wide upgrade from Oracle Database version 11g to Oracle Database version 19c. Their goal was to create a long term, best-in-class, zero-downtime operational model and their test case would be business continuity during an extensive Oracle Database upgrade. Since multiple locations were failovers for others, the complexity of this project included support of 20 geographically distributed databases and their applications ensuring the entire network was coordinated and synchronized.
Database disruption is a significant risk and would impact daily operational functions, such as patient management, medical records access, and overall service delivery. High availability and disaster recovery would ensure uninterrupted hospital operations and safeguard critical healthcare data. Magrabi justified their project with these goals:
These mission critical applications continued to run during the multi-day database upgrade:
Oracle GoldenGate was the critical component for their comprehensive fault tolerant architecture. GoldenGate enables an active-active configuration that automates seamless switchovers between active and standby databases.
Magrabi uses Oracle GoldenGate to protect databases with multiple secondary locations. When one location is disrupted, control automatically passes to a secondary database and the original site will become the new secondary location. This bi-directional high availability architecture ensures continuous database operations which prevents disruptions across their many locations across the Kingdom.
“Our proactive approach to risk management includes the deployment of Oracle GoldenGate. This robust solution provides continuous data protection and enables rapid recovery in the event of unforeseen challenges.”
- Ayman Anwar, CIO, Magrabi Health
Oracle GoldenGate provided a comprehensive solution to Magrabi's requirements for a highly distributed fault tolerant database infrastructure. The collaboration between Magrabi's technical team and Oracle ensured that Magrabi continues to deliver high-quality healthcare without disruption, safeguard critical patient data, and meet regulatory standards.
Magrabi Health has become a symbol for excellence in the Eye, ENT and Dentistry care fields for its long heritage in Saudi Arabia, exceptional services, the latest technology, and ultra-modern facilities offering world-class healthcare.
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