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Future State
December 7, 2019
Soar to Cloud with Disaster Recovery
Using Oracle Gen 2 Cloud Infrastructure as Your Disaster Recovery Solution
Many companies are tired of being in the “data center business.” The capital investment is high and the technology refresh cycle has a predictably high recurrence of these expenses. In addition, there is a need for a Disaster Recovery (DR) site: an additional physical data center generally located in a different geography existing only as an insurance policy for those “just in case” disaster scenarios. While it’s clearly a worthwhile investment made to ensure business continuity, at times, this can nearly double data center costs and exists only for an event that everyone hopes never happens.
We’re hosting a webinar to talk more about how Oracle can support your disaster recovery plan and explain the strategic approaches and best practices for moving your disaster recovery (DR) to Cloud. Join us on December 10th at 10am PT. An on-demand replay will also be available.
To make management of extra data centers easier and the data refresh quicker, many companies have their backup center in close physical proximity, connected by fiber optic cabling for speed of data transfer. Of course, this also incorporates an implied DR plan where a tornado would be required to make a hard turn between the two data centers to avoid both primary and secondary catastrophes from occurring simultaneously.
There are several alternatives to these potential scenarios. But only a cloud solution charges you just for what you need. There is only one cloud optimized for Oracle workloads: Oracle’s Gen 2 Cloud Infrastructure.
Technical best practices for cloud usage supports many DR strategies and approaches ranging from Cold backups to Warm and Hot sites.
Cold: Where applications and databases are backed up offline and inaccessible for update
Warm: Where applications and databases are replicated to a secondary site running in the background, and backed up at a point in time
Hot: Where both applications and data are live and accessible at one or multiple sites, and backups are dynamic
Each of these can be accommodated and each have pros and cons. As a strategy, placement of DR in the cloud can be a good step toward moving production there.
Oracle Consulting provides cloud strategy services to help you establish your roadmaps and determine your return on investment, accelerating your positive cash flow to ensure your business success. We can help with the following:
- DR strategy and roadmap
- Oracle Soar automated migration platform services to rapidly and efficiently migrate your databases, VMs, and applications to your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure subscription
- Support for your testing and verification processes
- Configuring and enabling your integrations between your on-prem and cloud environments
- Providing you with “Day 2” services to keep your application binaries in sync
Join us for our Disaster Recovery Soars on Oracle Cloud webinar and get started on your disaster recovery plans
Contact us at email: soar-migrations_us@oracle.com
This article was co-authored by Barb Cross, Cloud Migration Services Architect, Oracle Consulting