Oracle is the leading provider of enterprise database solutions. It is the choice of most enterprises that see their need to scale out. Protecting a large-scale database is critical, but not easy. Oracle protects data with its efficient database backup and restore options. Oracle’s Backup and Recovery capabilities protects organizations against data loss due to hardware failures, data corruption, and catastrophic failures.
Oracle’s built-in data protection mechanisms are tried and true in organizations around the globe. The combination of Oracle configuration and the flexibility of RMAN to generate database backups are powerful tools to protect your data. But how to scale out? How do you meet the increasing complexity of orchestrating hundreds of backups and managing storage?
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Whichever backup and recovery solution you choose you’ll need to manage the competing goals between database backups and the cost of storage; between data protection and storage costs. Another factor in managing the balance between protection and costs is how to best use lower-cost cloud storage. How do you get your data up there, and more importantly, when you need it how do you get it back? Your data could be spread over both data center and cloud.
What is needed is a solution that enables you to both work the levers of database backups and control storage costs. Any Oracle DBA should be able to select and protect all their Oracle databases (on-premises and in the cloud) and efficiently manage storage from a single solution — without having to compromise between data availability and backups.
The combined problem of managing data protection at the same time as managing data cost, i.e. managing data cost as a function of data protection, is not easy. It means protection and cost go together with protection taking the upper hand.
You can only manage this way when you work the backup operations in concert with storage management. An example of this is a reservoir. There is only so much capacity to hold water. Some water is released from the gates at one end, while water is coming in from the river at the other end. Ideally you want to manage the reservoir’s capacity by controlling both the incoming water and water released by the gate.
In the same way, in protecting your Oracle data you manage the number of backups coming in with the capacity to store them, offset by those backups aging out.
The real challenge is ensuring the complete protection of your data — backups, log backups, replication, and archival; while ensuring cost effectiveness — compression, deduplication, and retention.
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Managing data protection and data cost is never a “set it and forget it” proposition. It is not static, it is dynamic. Ensuring your data is protected requires constant vigilance against events that reduce the coverage of protection.
Cohesity’s Dashboard makes you effective in managing backups and storage at the same time.
Cloud storage, replication, and disaster recovery are now in the hands of the infrastructure team. Several reasons make managing data cost challenging:
In addition to protecting Oracle databases, Cohesity DataProtect delivered as Service protects other on-premises workloads like VMware and SQL Server as well as cloud and SaaS data sources like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft 365. Cohesity also addresses a wide range of data management use cases such as backup and recovery, disaster recovery, files and object services, and dev/test — all on a single platform and managed through a single UI —helping reduce complexity and eliminate mass data fragmentation.