High Availability & Security

Ensuring Business Continuity
With companies implementing more and more ICT-solutions to support their business processes, ensuring business continuity becomes a crucial aspect within every day operations!

Who has access to what? How to enforce and maintain security policies? How to prevent data-loss in case of system failure or other emergencies? How to provide continuity and minimize down-time? These issues will become more and more important.

Strategic, structured and financial affordable solutions must be considered by management in order to prevent data-loss on a failed system. Solutions guaranteeing High Availability (HA) of applications and data must be considered!

Other challenges that arise is securing company data. Meaning who is allowed to access which data. In short authentication and authorization.

Oracle: High Availability
Databases and the Internet have enabled worldwide collaboration and information sharing by extending the reach of database applications throughout organizations and communities. Both small businesses and global enterprises have users all over the world who require access to data 24 hours a day. Without this data access, revenue and customers can be lost, penalties can be owed, and bad press can have a lasting effect on customers and a company's reputation. Building a high availability IT infrastructure is critical to the success and well being of all enterprises in today's fast moving economy. ..More

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Local Companies with Oracle HA Solutions:
Douane

EMC: BackUp Recovery Archive (BURA)
Removes risk
Faster and more consistent backups and restores
Better service levels to the business
Improves security and reliability
Safeguard vital assets and reduce process errors
Reduces complexity
Single policy assigned for lifecycle of information
Lowers total cost of ownership
Lower-cost storage tiers for inactive date
Eliminate unnecessary redundant data
Leverages information assets
Faster access to historical data for longer periods
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Oracle - Solutions - EMC
Over the past 12 years, Oracle�s collaboration with EMC has led to many competitive advantages for the (Oracle) organization. The primary benefit was the ability to use EMC in support of Oracle's global data center consolidation from 43 data centers worldwide to two main Oracle environments; EMC tiered storage and software solutions play a key role in optimizing Oracle's database
development IT infrastructure to facilitate faster time to market; EMC exploited enterprise storage brings together vital transactional data from core global IT applications across the enterprise for fast and continuous access to business-critical information; and EMC tiered storage and software delivers operational and cost efficiency to core back-office operations such as e-mail, business productivity applications, and file storage.
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EMC: Identity management → RSA
Get enhanced identity management and data protection with new integration of RSA, the Security Division of EMC.
Traditionally, remote users would enter passwords to gain access to the same applications they could access from their desktops physically attached to the LAN. But passwords are insufficient for protecting remote access to enterprise information and applications. Authentication, proving the identity of users, is designed to establish trust by ensuring that the remote users are indeed who they claim to be........More

Local Companies with EMC HA Solutions
Selikor
Aqualectra

Oracle: Security

Oracle Database 11g Release 1 delivers state-of-the-art capabilities to address rapidly emerging requirements in the areas of security, privacy and compliance. Reducing the risk of insider threats, complying with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), and meeting the Payment Card Industry (PCI) requirements are top priorities for many organizations worldwide. � More.