High Availability (HA) is a requirement for business critical applications that cannot afford system downtime. The Internet makes it easier to reach customers around the world and around the clock. Since companies must always be prepared to serve their customers, this expanded reach also makes it more costly when service is not available, either planned or unplanned. Moreover, while the costs associated with business downtime continue to rise, price premiums for high-availability solutions continue to decline.

There are many High Availability options available in the Oracle environment: some hardware based and others database based. But to use database redundancy options provided by Oracle the Enterprise Edition of the Oracle database software is required. This version is sold at a considerable premium over the Standard edition.

Cintra has developed a standby database solution for Oracle’s Standard edition compliant to versions 8i, 9i and 10g.

Key features built into our Oracle SE-Guard database solution include.

• Automated log shipping.

• Minimal data loss configuration.

• Delayed log apply feature for protection against database corruption.

• Integrated monitoring with email alerts.

• Supports manual failover and fail-back operations.

• Certified to Oracle versions 8i, 9i and 10g.

• Supports both local high availability and remote disaster recovery configurations.