IT teams receive pressures on multiple fronts: Business groups demand new application services delivered faster and continuous, high-quality IT service to support highly dynamic and competitive business operations. In the meanwhileIT teams are asked to reduce costs and improve ROI from existing systems in highly complex and siloed environments.
In the midst of this conundrum, the only way out for IT leadership is to consolidate and leverage cloud architecture. Especially consolidation at the database level and implementing a private database-as-a-service (DBaaS) environmentis a transformative approach todelivering database functionality to end users in an agile, efficient, and scalable way. It helps organizations improve resource utilization, and lower both capital and operational expenditures.
Oracle Database 12c is designed to support database consolidation with many new features for deploying shared database environment. The new multitenant architecture, simplified management capabilities, improvements to security and compliance, along with robust and flexible Maximum Availability Architecture, are only a few of the key differentiators.
While this all sounds good and logical for IT teams, when it comes to moving to a private database cloud, they faceyet another major challenge: How do we move our critical systems to a new environment without interrupting our operations.In today’s 24/7 world, especially customer-facing systems cannot tolerate hours or days of downtime. For some of them, even few minutes of downtime can bring high costs to the business. As in each major project, risk involved with moving to a new system is a real deterrent factor too.
Oracle GoldenGate12coffers the core capabilities to enable this major move to a database as a service environment. With its optimized support for Oracle Database 12c multitenant architecture and heterogeneous data replication capabilities, Oracle GoldenGate allows organizations to avoid business disruption while the systems are moving to a consolidated, DBaaS environment. In addition, Oracle GoldenGate offers a failback option to the old environment, or a phased migrationoption by running old and new systems simultaneously in active-active mode, to minimize risks. Oracle GoldenGate’s heterogeneity includes all major database vendors and operating systems including SQL Server, DB2 (LUW, z/Os, iSeries), Sybase ASE, HP NonStop and more.In our
webcast Zero
Downtime Consolidation to Oracle Database 12c with Oracle GoldenGate 12c on May 13th 10am PT we will present this solution with specific architecture examples and comparison to
other database upgrade options. 
Zero Downtime Consolidation to Oracle Database 12c with Oracle GoldenGate 12c
May 13th, 10am PT/ 1pm ET
If your organization needs to improve agility, increase innovation, and reduce costs, I invite you to join this webcast to learn how to remove the risk and business interruption barriers to move to an agile and cost-efficient private database cloud.