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Cloud Migration and Administration Services

Remote DBA Experts Offers a Full Suite of Cloud Migration and Administration Services.   From the initial migration of existing database environments to the ongoing administration of cloud database implementations, Remote DBA Experts is able to tailor a cloud based solution to meet each customer’s individual needs.

Leveraging the Amazon EC2/Oracle Cloud Offering
The Amazon EC2/Oracle partnership provides customers with a wide selection of Oracle enterprise software that has been certified to run on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Customers who power their business with Oracle software can fully leverage the scalability, reliability, and utility-based pricing model of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for production workloads with full support from both Oracle and AWS.   Remote DBA Experts cloud database specialists help customers fully leverage all of the benefits of the Amazon EC2/Oracle partnership.

Benefits of the Amazon EC2/Oracle Cloud Partnership:

• Eliminates up-front capital expenditures
• Significantly reduces ongoing operational expenses
• Allows customers to focus on their business and not datacenter/infrastructure support
• Pay-as-you-go utility computing model allows customers to quickly scale capacity up or down to meet business needs
• No long term commitments required
• Built in high availability and disaster recovery features
• Quick deployment feature reduces time-to-pilot and test projects
• Amazon’s advanced disk storage capabilities reduces application and database clones and refresh times
• Reduces Oracle administration time and costs
• Support for Oracle E-business Suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and Weblogic Server

Ensuring Trouble Free Cloud Migrations
Migrating traditionally hosted database applications to the cloud isn’t “magic.”   The key to success is to partner with an organization that has experience in cloud migrations and offers a set of standard best practices and guiding principles designed to achieve a successful implementation. 

A thorough analysis of the application being migrated and the creation of detailed cloud migration test plans ensure that potential issues are addressed early in the migration lifecycle.  Identifying these issues early in the migration life cycle allows them to be more easily addressed than if they were to be identified during later stages.  Remote DBA Experts migration and support specialists work with customers to ensure that the overall implementation of the new cloud based application is proceeding according to expectations and results in an application environment that fully leverages the benefits provided by the Amazon EC2/Oracle partnership.

To ensure the success of database application cloud migrations, Remote DBA Experts’ migration specialists have designed a series of cloud migration services:

Remote DBA Experts Cloud Migration Services

• Cost Evaluation - Remote DBA Experts will work with customers to analyze their database application's processing and storage requirements.  This information is used to compare the cost of a cloud solution to internally hosted servers and traditional third-party hosting providers.
• Needs Analysis - Determines if the cloud will satisfy the application's requirements for connectivity, security, availability, performance, administration and monitoring.
• Application Migration Analysis - Remote DBA Experts’ migration team will create database migration cost estimates and assist customers in the development of migration project plans with timelines and milestones.
• Test Plan Development - The creation of detailed test plans prevents surprises from occurring during production migrations.  Remote DBA Experts will work with customers on the creation of test plans that include establishing performance benchmarks on existing environments and cloud systems, and the testing overall application functionality. 
• Testing– Any thorough cloud test plan must include the testing of data feeds from other architectures, load processes, batch processing, online transactions, third-party tools that provide AD-HOC query access, stored procedure access, advanced database features ( streams, replication, etc.), backup/recovery, monitoring and change management.
• Production Implementation Planning and Execution -    Thorough production migration plans and turnover checklists result in less error prone (and less stressful) production migrations.   Test plans allow technicians to  concern themselves with topics that are related to this specific turnover rather than spending time on the more mundane turnover tasks that are just as important, but easily forgotten.

Once the migration is complete, Remote DBA Experts’ Cloud database administrators provide the same high-quality monitoring, administration and problem resolution services as they do for customers utilizing more traditional database hosting environments.     

Remote DBA Experts Cloud Administration Services 

• Cloud Application Monitoring - Remote DBA Experts continuously enhances their monitoring architecture to allow Remote DBA Experts’ Proactive Monitoring and Response team members to monitor key components of cloud based applications.
• Cloud Database Administration –  The same robust set of administration  services that are provided for more traditional environments are also available for cloud based implementations including object change management, SQL and database tuning, problem analysis and correction, security, backup/recovery, application development support and advanced feature analysis and implementation.
• 24 X 7 Onshore Operations Center - Remote DBA Experts dedicates an entire team of technicians that are responsible for creating, implementing and enhancing a strategic blueprint for the proactive monitoring and trouble-shooting of cloud based database applications.  Since the proactive support blueprint is already in place, companies employing Remote DBA Experts to support their cloud databases do not have to spend the additional monies required to create a proactive support environment.

Service Level Agreements Guarantee Support Quality of Cloud Environments
Since its inception, Remote DBA Experts understood that effective measurements were required to judge the success of any remote support activity.  We know that we will not be able to meet our customer’s expectations if they don’t have a firm understanding of what they are or how they are measured.  Guaranteeing service levels is a standard part of Remote DBA Experts’ contracts with all customers.  100% of Remote DBA Experts’ contracts have measurable Service Level Agreements in place.