Oracle Database High Availability

Databases and the Internet have enabled worldwide collaboration and information sharing by extending the reach of database applications throughout organizations and communities. Both small businesses and global enterprises have users all over the world who require access to data 24 hours a day. Without this data access, revenue and customers can be lost, penalties can be owed, and bad press can have a lasting effect on customers and a company’s reputation. Building a high availability IT infrastructure is critical to the success and well being of all enterprises in today’s fast moving economy.

One of the challenges in designing an HA solution is examining and addressing all the possible causes of downtime. It is important to consider causes of both unplanned and planned downtime when designing a fault tolerant and resilient IT infrastructure. Unplanned downtime is primarily the result of computer failures or data failures. Planned downtime is primarily due to data changes or system changes that must be applied to the production system.

Click on the following for a further explanation of what the critical high availability solution areas are, why they are important considerations for building a highly available solution, and what are Oracle’s offerings in each of these areas.

Oracle Clustering Solutions
Maximum Availability Architecture