Why High Availability and Disaster Recovery are Critical to Your Business:

Availability

• Down time costs have been estimated  from $90,000 to $6.4M per hour in some industries, how much will you lose?
• What would happen if your database was down for an Hour, a Day?
• How will you explain that to the boss, to your clients?
• You need a proven, tested, high availability solution in place in order to know that you are safe.

Disaster Recovery

• What would happen if you lose a server, or an entire data center?  Would you lose a day’s worth of data, a week’s worth of data? What will that mean to your business?
• Disasters of all kinds happen every day to business of all sizes.  Storms, floods, fires, power spikes, and acts of terrorism have caused havoc for companies of all sizes.
• What will you do when disaster strikes? Do you have a plan?

Without effective, well tested strategies to prevent these losses, you risk extended down time, angry users, angry clients, angry bosses.

You can eliminate that risk and ensure that your data is protected.  A Buda Consulting Database Reliability Review will determine if you are as protected as you think you are and can help you achieve the level of protection that you need.

SQL Server Clustering, Oracle RAC, database mirroring, log shipping, and replication, virtualization, and disk-based backup technologies can all be used to increase uptime and to keep your database highly available.

Specific factors within your organization, including your tolerance for down time, tolerance for data loss, hardware and software technologies, and your budget, will determine which technology or technologies are right for you.

We will help you understand the Oracle High Availability, SQL Server High Availability, or MySql High Availability  technologies and implement the ones that work for you.

With the right high availability technology in place, you will be sure that your database will always be up when you need it.

Database-Specific High Availability Options

• Oracle High Availability options include Oracle Real Application Clusters, Data Guard, Oracle Streams (Replication),  and Oracle Flashback Technology.
• Sql Server High Availability options include Log shipping, Database Mirroring,  Fail-Over Clustering, and Peer-Peer Replication.
• MySQL High Availability options include MySQLReplication and Clustering. 

Our experts in these technologies will get your database up and running and keep it that way! 

Disk-based backup technologies, Database-Specific Backup and Recovery utilities, mirroring, log shipping, and replication can all be used to mitigate the risk of losing data during a data center disaster.

Whether you need a hot standby site in another state or a cold standby site in another room,  we help you select, architect, and implement the perfect solution for your business and your budget.

Don’t be caught off guard, disaster never calls ahead.   Will you be ready?

• Database-Specific Disaster Recovery Options

• Sql Server Disaster Recovery options include the backup and restore utility. Log shipping and Mirroring can also be used to maintain a standby site that can be used in the event of disaster.  Alternatively, we can use third party applications such as Double-Take can be used to create ahotsite using clustering (with no shared disks). In certain circumstances, replication can be used as well to create a standby database.
• Oracle Disaster Recovery options include RMAN, Data Guard and Oracle Streams, With data guard, you can build a robust environment with hot or cold standby databases and is usually the best option for oracle Disaster Recovery.  Oracle streams can be used to create replicated databases as well. 
• MySQL has limited disaster recovery capabilities using it’s mysqldump facility and binary logs.  The database tables must be locked before taking a full backup. This is troublesome for a database that requires high availability.   But a utility  calledXtraBackup  can be explored as it adds additional flexibility and the ability to perform hot backups.