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Efficient business operations, high quality customer service, conformance with government regulations, and safeguarding corporate information assets all require the highest possible level of data protection and data availability. Thus it is no surprise that data protection and data availability are among the top priorities for companies of all sizes and industries.
Backup and recovery from tape, storage remote-mirroring, or database log shipping are the traditional data protection and disaster recovery (DR) solutions. Unfortunately, these solutions are unable to reliably deliver aggressive recovery point (RPO - data protection) and recovery time (RTO - data availability) objectives. They also fail to provide an adequate return on investment due to high acquisition costs and poor utilization of standby systems that sit idle until they are called upon to assume a primary role.
In contrast, Oracle Data Guard 11g Release 2 redefines what users should expect from such solutions. Data Guard is included with Oracle Database Enterprise Edition and provides the management, monitoring, and automation software to create and maintain one or more synchronized standby databases that protect data from failures, disasters, errors, and corruptions. It can address both High Availability and Disaster Recovery requirements and is the ideal complement to Oracle Real Application Clusters.
Data Guard has the requisite knowledge of the Oracle database to provide the highest level of protection for Oracle data. Data Guard is straightforward to implement and manage. Administrators are always certain of the ability of a standby database to assume the production role - eliminating business risk at failover time. Finally, in a time when all businesses must reduce expenses, Data Guard standby databases deliver high return on investment when used for queries, reports, backups, testing, or rolling database upgrades and other maintenance, while also providing disaster protection.
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