SEAMLESS MIGRATION AND MANAGEMENT OF ORACLE DATABASES IN AWS CLIENT OVERVIEW

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THE CHALLENGE

In an age of cloud and ubiquitous mobile access, few CIOs see the benefit of owning and operating their own data centers. YourPrint was one such organization who made the decision to “get out of the data center business”. For many years, YourPrint had maintained an on-premises data center in Canada that housed business-critical Oracle database servers. With terabytes of data to migrate, disruption wasn’t an option.

Having selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as their cloud of choice, YourPrint needed a partner they could trust to help them migrate gracefully from their current data center and provide ongoing management of their infrastructure.

Cloudberry SOLUTION

YourPrint engaged Cloudberry to ensure both a seamless server migration project to the AWS cloud and provide ongoing monitoring and management services. This full-service approach simplified management by having Cloudberry focus on the Oracle databases while YourPrint focused on their infrastructure.

As part of the solution, Cloudberry handled migration, setup, and transition to the AWS cloud.

To address YourPrint’s large data volume, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) was used to create a copy of the database on AWS. Cloudberry created a physical standby copy of the database in AWS and managed the near-real time replication from production to AWS. This was done in advance of go-live as an approach to minimize downtime. Once YourPrint was ready to make the switch to the live system in AWS, the process took hours as opposed to days.

In addition, Cloudberry provided monitoring of the production database and the standby database for disaster recovery. Cloudberry provided YourPrint with standard operating procedures for cloning EC2 instances and the associated databases for self-service testing and development environments.

BOTTOM LINE RESULTS

With Cloudberry’s help, YourPrint has realized significant time savings, greater operational efficiencies, and a more agile development environment. Thanks to Cloudberry, YourPrint can now clone servers rapidly and create a quality assurance and development environment for testing very quickly, a process that was challenging to achieve in its legacy on-premises environment.