FlashGrid Storage Fabric

Software-defined storage for Oracle RAC clusters. Forget storage arrays.

 

FlashGrid Storage Fabric software enables high-speed shared storage for Oracle clusters in a variety of infrastructure environments including bare-metal servers, private and public clouds, virtual machines, or extended distance clusters.


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Case studies

Escala 24×7 ensures non-stop operation of a money transfer application with FlashGrid Cluster and Oracle RAC database

“We considered alternatives, but because the client was in a rush, we quickly ran a POC with FlashGrid Cluster on AWS. The highlight was that we could migrate the Oracle databases without refactoring and leaving Oracle RAC.”

Ronald Blanco

Cloud Architect, Escala 24×7

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An award-winning finance company in Vietnam sought to expand its cloud infrastructure

An award-winning finance company in Vietnam, recognized for delivering innovative digital financial solutions and exceptional customer experience, sought to expand its cloud infrastructure to meet increasing demand. To support both production and user acceptance testing (UAT) environments, the company utilized FlashGrid Launcher to deploy FlashGrid Cluster for Oracle RAC on AWS efficiently and repeatedly. This streamlined method enabled the consistent and automated provisioning of databases in the cloud, thereby minimizing manual effort and deployment time. As a result, the company successfully scaled its Oracle RAC infrastructure on AWS, supporting business growth while maintaining high availability and performance.


Leading travel agency marks the 6th year of running mission-critical Oracle databases on AWS with FlashGrid

“Since 2017, FlashGrid’s software and 24×7 support have helped us meet the high availability needs of our main travel booking application in AWS. We greatly value their ongoing partnership and expertise.”

Karsten Porsager Haastrup

Head of IT Operations, DER Touristik Nordic

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Billing Platform Provider Moves Database Clusters to AWS, Maintains High Availability SLA

“With FlashGrid and AWS we can now deploy a new application within two weeks instead of six months, without compromising our availability SLA.”

David Urban

VP Operations

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Digital Education SaaS Innovator Uses FlashGrid to Attain Database High Availability on AWS

“FlashGrid delivers database high availability that we need for running our service in AWS with no interruptions.”

Nataraj Chindam

Senior Database Administrator

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U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs migrates applications to a private cloud, selects FlashGrid Storage Fabric to enable shared storage for Oracle RAC.

A major applications and solutions provider approached FlashGrid Inc when they had to migrate an application they were hosting for the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs from a traditional data center to a private cloud. The application was using Oracle RAC for its backend database. The private cloud was based on VMware Director and provided advanced VM and networking capabilities. However, the cloud lacked the shared storage capability required for running Oracle RAC. The FlashGrid Storage Fabric software was used to create highly available shared storage seamlessly integrated with Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM). FlashGrid Storage Fabric enabled migration to the private cloud without sacrificing the database high availability provided by Oracle RAC.


A global US-headquartered biopharmaceutical company decided to move from Oracle Cloud to Azure to optimize costs

While migrating most servers was easy, there was a challenge with moving Oracle RAC clusters, which needed to be retained as the database backend. After researching options for running RAC on Azure, the company’s in-house operations team did a self-serve deployment of Oracle RAC on Azure using the FlashGrid Launcher free online tool. With the cluster already running, the operations team contacted FlashGrid to discuss completing the project and going live on the new Azure infrastructure with production and disaster recovery RAC clusters. FlashGrid performed an in-depth analysis of the customer’s AWR reports, suggesting the optimal sizing and configuration options for the clusters. The project was implemented on time, removing the roadblock for cross-cloud migration.


A leading aerospace company based in Brazil needed to migrate several applications from their data center to Azure

These applications relied on Oracle RAC as the backend database and were critical to the aircraft manufacturing process. The company’s IT services provider executed the migration in three phases: starting with a proof-of-concept and testing, followed by deploying test and development clusters, and finally, launching production and disaster recovery systems. Since 2020, all systems have been successfully running on FlashGrid Cluster on Azure.


Global Credit Ratings Provider Moves Databases from Exadata to AWS, Selects FlashGrid as the New Platform

“We had to migrate dozens of mission critical Oracle RAC databases from Exadata to AWS with FlashGrid, and were able to do it without sacrificing performance or availability.”

Rama Kolli

Sr. Director – Database Management

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FlashGrid increases database performance by 11x for everyday health plan provider

“With our new virtualized RAC running on FlashGrid architecture we do a 125GB full table scan in 6 seconds. That is an 11x improvement over our previous setup.”

Sam Shiel

Oracle DBA

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World’s top-10 bank achieves reliable operation of Oracle RAC with FlashGrid Storage Fabric

Corporate and Institutional Banking division of a global bank had challenges with their existing EMC storage system running extended-distance Oracle RAC clusters. Performance was insufficient and reliability problems were resulting in downtime, which undermined the entire purpose of Oracle RAC clustering. The bank turned to FlashGrid Storage Fabric software in combination with standard SSDs installed in the database servers. After one year of testing with a non-critical workload, the bank switched critical workloads to the new Oracle RAC clusters powered by FlashGrid Storage Fabric software.


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