Oracle Real Application Clusters vs. Veritas InfoScale

Currently, as per RAC configuration, one node RAC or multinode RAC configuration is there. Customers who don't have licenses to run RAC simultaneously in multiple servers at the same time can opt for one node RAC configuration while they can still have the flavour of failover.

Incentivized

Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager is great for the orchestration and management of its data protection workflows, with a leading multi-cloud integration solution and multiple storage location options. The downside of Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager it's the high price, compare to similar solutions that claimed the same results, but are less known.

Incentivized

• Horizontal scalability
• Seamless failover
• No impact on business during failover

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• Replication
• Reliability
• Escalation

Incentivized

• Oracle Real Application Clusters is totally dependant on DBA's . It would be great if it can be simplified somehow
• Its license cost
• Enabling usage in standard edition

Incentivized

• More pricing option for small to medium size companies
• More user-friendly reporting options for intrusion detection
• Customizable user access rights and profiles (e.g the ability to schedule different notifications for user profiles)

Incentivized

Choosing Oracle Real Application Clusters over SQL Server Cluster was actually a business requirement. As the nature of business demanded Oracle RDBMS. As a clustering solution, RAC comes into the picture easily, so it was not a hard choice to choose Oracle Real Application Clusters over SQL Server.

Incentivized

Due Company's strategy we selected Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager. Due to some strategy alignments, we choose Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager in order to have the replication to be managed by OS layer and not Storage one - where it's possible to System Administrators have the replication status and to check if everything is fine or not. If not the Sysadmin will able to try to stop/start replication from themselves.

Incentivized

• Outage on application downtime has greatly reduced
• Customers confirmed, performance wise, it has been better after deployment of Oracle Real Application Clusters
• Shared storage

Incentivized

• By keeping the data safe, with scheduled deletion options of certain sensitive information, we keep our company safe and avoid fines, reputational damage.
• While the overall cost of Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager solutions are high, choosing or changing the location of where the data is stored in EU comes free of charge.
• Automatic backup and recovery of data helps us maintain of certain level of trust, less disturbance in daily operations, reducing the high cost that tech data outages would cause.

Incentivized