A Leading Insurer Achieved Compliance and Business Continuity with Disaster Recovery Readiness in the Cloud
When disaster recovery becomes a lifesaver, a leading insurance company can save millions of dollars and customers’ data without disruption as it is a mission-critical option and a customized solution. To implement this power ranger solution, the organization had only weeks away from disruptions associated with stringent data protection regulations.
Implementing the right-fit solutions on a global scale and owning years of expertise, the organization approached our specialized consultants, focused on delivering a robust disaster recovery solution in record time while keeping the business continuity, regulatory compliance, and absolute data integrity for a 10-terabyte Oracle Exadata database that was the heart of the company’s operations.
Indulge in the story of success where our combined engineering excellence, cloud expertise, and commitment led to 360-degree protection.
The Challenge
As the deadline was closing in, the organization expected a fully operational DR within just a few months. The stakes were high:
- DR environment had to go-live before the regulatory audits began.
- Production database spanned nearly 10-terabytes of high-transaction OLTP data.
- Production system had to deal with real-time insurance operations including claims, underwriting payments, and customer communications as it couldn’t afford interruptions.
- The DR setup had to meet data protection, encryption, and audit mandates defined by financial regulators.
- Data replication was also part of the plan as network loads stressed the on-premises infrastructure and the cloud.
Expert-Involved Diagnosis to Match Performance with Precision
A team of seasoned professionals conducted a deep-dive assessment of the existing database environment that included configuration, workload behavior, and compliance posture. Our experts quickly identified that the most pragmatic and high-performance solution would be to implement the disaster recovery environment on a public cloud environment, leveraging the power of Oracle capabilities for scalability, compliance, and cost efficiency.
- It ensured native compatibility with the client’s on-premises Exadata database, eliminating complex reconfigurations.
- It delivered the same high-performance architecture in the cloud with disaster recovery enabled all over the infrastructure.
- It offered regulatory-grade security and compliance, meeting data residency and encryption requirements by design.
Even in the limited bandwidth, the DR replication achieved synchronization without data loss or integrity complications.
Rapid Deployment, Zero Business Disruption
- Migrated the 10TB high-transaction OLTP database from on-premises Exadata to Oracle Exadata Cloud Service (ExaCS) with minimal downtime and industry-led best practices.
- Accelerated OCI subscription provisioning and expedited the service purchase order process, reducing lead time from weeks to days through proactive coordination with Oracle Cloud operations.
- Established a secure, policy-compliant DR topology across OCI regions. This has enabled full data protection, automatic failover capabilities, and consistent replication performance.
- Implemented DR monitoring and validation routines to ensure seamless switchover/switchback functionality and real-time visibility for the IT team.
- Optimized network and storage configurations to achieve optimal synchronization without additional hardware investments.
- Trained the client’s internal team for operational handover, empowering them to manage and test DR scenarios confidently.
Infolob’s experience with large-scale Oracle environments coupled with its deep understanding of compliance requirements in the financial sector has allowed the project to move from planning to completion in record time, well ahead of regulatory deadlines.
Potential Business Outcomes
It began as a race against time and turned out to be a possibility when expertise married with flawless execution. It’s an achievement with cloud-based resilience at scale.
- Data protection and disaster recovery readiness requirements are successfully met well before the audit deadline.
- It’s a zero-downtime migration approach tailored effectively so that business operations continued seamlessly.
- New DR setup offered elastic scalability, high availability, and automated failover during peak loads or unforeseen events.
- The enterprise avoided costly hardware refreshes and reduced on-premises infrastructure maintenance, achieving long-term cost savings and operational flexibility.
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