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GoldenGate Zero-Downtime Operations solution give companies an exceptional solution for enabling uninterrupted business operations during necessary system upgrade, migration, and maintenance activities.
KEY BENEFITS:
- Achieve near-zero interruption to critical business applications
- Speed and simplify upgrades, migrations, and maintenance for databases and platforms
- Implement a reliable failback strategy
- Verify data replication, completeness, and transaction integrity
- Maintain increasingly stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Business and IT Challenges
It is a necessity that the IT group must perform periodic upgrades and maintenance on databases and operating systems across the enterprise. Those activities typically require a "planned outage," which schedules an estimated length of time in which the databases and applications they support will be unavailable for use. Less frequent are migrations where database or server technologies change across vendors. Migrations demand even longer outage windows, due to the significantly increased IT complexity.
Planned outages challenge availability in several important areas. While planned outages generally do not count towards a five 9's goal (99.999% uptime), there is still bound to be revenue impact and a degraded end user experience, particularly if those systems are supporting more business-critical applications. Also, if those systems have interdependencies, there may be a larger ripple effect.
The "Saturday Night" Planned Outage
Traditionally, IT departments have tried to schedule planned outages during lowest-activity days and times, and ideally during lower-volume seasons to minimize impact to users and the business.
But today with most critical applications running at or close to 24x7, any outage negatively affects business operations, customer service, and usually the bottom line. Though a number of approaches may be taken to minimize that planned outage time, (such as performing a "rolling upgrade"), those techniques are confined to only certain scenarios and cannot be used for migrations.
GoldenGate Zero-Downtime Operations
If necessary database, server, or application improvements are being delayed or postponed because the business can't afford the outage time, GoldenGate Software offers a better approach. GoldenGate's Transactional Data Management (TDM) software platform provides process modules for capturing, transforming, routing, and delivering transactional data in real time across heterogeneous environments. Using the TDM platform, GoldenGate Zero-Downtime Operations is a high availability solution that can eliminate database downtime during upgrades, maintenance, and migration projects.
The solution allows for real-time, bi-directional data movement and synchronization between primary and secondary systems. GoldenGate can support heterogeneous environments, a key requirement for cross-platform upgrades or database migrations. In addition, it provides excellent failback contingencies (by keeping the old and new environments in synch in real time) and the ability to verify data between the systems.
With GoldenGate's TDM software solutions, companies obtain an exceptional solution for uninterrupted, reliable migration, upgrade, and maintenance projects that impact critical business operations. Outage time is now limited only to the minutes or seconds required for application switchover time. Please contact us for more information on GoldenGate Zero-Downtime Operations, the TDM software platform, and other solutions and products.
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