Twin Strata

Together with one of our partners, Tricore Solutions, we are working with a number of Oracle customers to reduce cost and drive efficiency for database backups. TriCore is recognized as one of Oracle’s leading partners delivering a suite of services for enterprise accounts.

One of the challenges we are focused on is to protect Oracle databases using Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) and Cloud storage. The challenge faced by most enterprise customers is to reduce cost and drive efficiency to protect Oracle databases and improve restore process. Companies using tape and off-site vaulting services to store Oracle database backup data are shouldering a mountain of costs that will continue to increase linearly with database growth. Costs for such items as media (tape), tape transportation, and vaulting fees to house data offsite. And the process for restoring data is difficult and time consuming taking anywhere from hours to a week to retrieve data. In today’s business environment, expectations for information retrieval should be near real-time if not “real time”.

The solution we provide is an on-demand, expandable, low cost storage tier integrated seamlessly with Oracle RMAN. This solution is made up of CloudArray software together with public Cloud storage and services performed by TriCore solutions. The CloudArray solution enables users to provision volumes on-demand having policies to store backup data locally (cache) having a replica in the Cloud. CloudArray also encrypts and compresses data prior to delivering it to Cloud storage thereby providing security and performance.

We provide an overview of the solution in the following presentation:

Benefits:
The solution lessens the need to store backup data to tape and eliminates the cost involved in managing tape off-site by third party tape vaulting companies. Depending upon retention policies and the amount of data stored off-site, the cost of physical media is the largest cost component of the backup process. Data vaulting services may run as much as 15% of the media costs. For example, a company spending $40,000 per year on LTO could expect to spend as much as $6,000 per year to store the data off-site. CloudArray software and public Cloud storage combined is approx 1/20th of the cost resulting in a significant savings to the customer with near immediate ROI.

Tags: backup, Cloud Storage, Oracle, restore, RMAN

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