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.
