Today, it’s no longer a question of moving IT to the cloud — it’s about choosing the best way to do it for your particular business requirements.

Before any cloud migration takes place, you’ll need to make some big decisions about which models make the most sense for your business.

The deployment model describes how you will use the chosen infrastructure, regardless of whether it is located on- or off-premises and who owns the actual equipment.
On the other hand, a service model describes the degree of management and control you want over what you run on the cloud infrastructure.

This eBook explores these considerations and more that could affect your decision. Download this eBook with Quest to learn how to choose the right deployment model for your business.

We’ve arrived at the peak of the digital transformation learning curve, where customer demand is driving businesses to deliver outstanding service at all times.

For DBAs, this means you need to single- handedly ensure business continuity is maintained at all times, including scenarios when disaster strikes. You’re taking on the herculean task of maintaining consistent uptime for databases that support data centers, customer portals, web ordering systems and more ... even when no one notices.

Since databases are critical to business operations, DBAs have great responsibility in keeping their organization up and running. For modern, IT-dependent businesses, this means ensuring high avail- ability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR). Learn more about the critical role DBAs play in any organization with this eBook by Quest.

ERP teams face a different environment than other application teams face because they work with the organization’s financial system of record. Progress toward DevOps can introduce risk of noncompliance for which most people — auditors, change control advisors, compliance managers, even life-long ERP developers — have little appetite.

This eBook explores the potential role of DevOps on ERP teams. It offers a framework for guiding ERP teams toward a DevOps culture, with workflows that can speed up deployment while still mitigating risk. ERP teams will see that, in some ways, they may already be doing DevOps and not know it. They can enjoy the advantages of DevOps without incurring the risk of noncompliance.

Are you thinking about moving your databases to the cloud or making the transition to data- base as a service (DBaaS)?

With cloud computing vendors offering more services at lower prices, the barriers to spin- ning up cloud resources are diminishing. But there are few black-and-white questions in technology and even fewer in business, which is why smart companies look at all the shades of gray in an innovation like the cloud-based database before they commit on a large scale.

In this ebook, we’ll examine the what, why, when, where and how of database cloud computing. This overview of the current cloud landscape includes answers to the most commonly asked questions and a number of important but frequently overlooked points. Database administrators (DBAs) and managers will gain a better view of the path to the cloud, whether they are preparing to migrate two dozen web pages or two dozen years of trans- action history.

In today’s digital economy, a business can’t afford to go down, even for a second.
Enterprises seek to base most, if not all, decision making on insights drawn from data, which means there is no margin for error if the flow of that data is ever disrupted. For that reason, just about every organization has turned to data replication as an essential tool within their availability and continuity strategies.
But keeping data highly available is no longer a simple matter of backing up one database with an up-to-the-second copy of another. Enterprise data environments are complex, with many sources and modes of computing. A hybrid data infrastructure calls for new approaches to data replication.

Unisphere Research fielded a study among the members of the Independent Oracle Users Group to examine the key challenges, priorities, and solutions being adopted by Oracle Database sites. This study, sponsored by Quest Software, includes the views and experiences of 285 IT decision makers, representing a fairly broad sample of company types and sizes. The survey found that databases continue to expand in size and complexity, while at the same time, more enterprises are turning to cloud-based resources to keep information highly available.

Download this white paper to learn more about the survey results and how the cloud will be a key enabler of enterprise data replication strategies going forward.

As data becomes more and more critical, its availability should not be compromised by any type of outage – whether it’s unscheduled due to a system crash or malfunction, or it’s scheduled due to patches or upgrades to Oracle, the OS, or applications, and storage replacement. Because today, people view scheduled outages differently than 10 years ago. They don’t really care if the outage is scheduled or unscheduled; an outage is an outage. With this in mind, all types of organizations are looking for more uptime: many are striving for five 9s, or only about 6 minutes of unscheduled downtime a year. This is, of course, very difficult to achieve.

With replication, organizations can extend the database and server to minimize outages. One replication method, active- active replication (also known as peer-to-peer, master-to-master, active-active, or multi-active server replication), offers the most promise. Active-active replication is a horizontal scaling of the application over multiple servers that allows propagation of changes to more than one server. If everything is done properly, end users will not see any outages from the application.

This white paper discusses the key considerations to keep in mind when using active-active replication to ensure high availability. We’ll reveal how you can easily and successfully implement this strategy across your enterprise.