10 / CLOUD / SUCCESS STORY

Leading insurer meets a regulatory audit with a 10 TB cloud DR site delivered in weeks

With a regulatory audit weeks away, a leading insurer stood up a compliant cloud DR site for its 10 TB transactional database, without disrupting claims or underwriting.

CLIENT SNAPSHOT

Leading insurance company · Regulated by IRDAI / equivalent · 10 TB high-transaction OLTP database on Oracle Exadata · Claims, underwriting, payments and customer communications all on the platform

HEADLINE RESULTS

What changed in production.

001DR readiness delivered well ahead of the audit deadline
002Zero downtime during migration to the DR target
003Full sync replication over limited bandwidth, no data loss
004No hardware refresh, ongoing on-premises maintenance reduced
01 / THE CHALLENGE

Where the pressure started.

Regulators required a working disaster recovery environment before the audit began. The production database held about 10 TB of high-transaction data behind claims, underwriting, payments and customer communication. It could not pause. The DR design had to meet data protection, encryption and audit mandates, and replication had to run over limited network bandwidth.

02 / WHAT WE DID

Designed for the real operating environment.

  • Assessed the database configuration, workload behaviour and compliance posture.
  • Chose Exadata Cloud Service on OCI as the DR target for native compatibility with the on-premises Exadata.
  • Worked with Oracle to cut cloud provisioning lead time from weeks to days.
  • Built a secure, policy-compliant DR topology across OCI regions with automatic failover.
  • Tuned network and storage settings to reach full synchronization without new hardware.
  • Set up DR monitoring and validated switchover and switchback with the client team.
  • Trained the insurer's team to run and test DR scenarios on their own.
03 / OUTCOMES

The result is more than a platform.

↗ DR readiness achieved well ahead of the audit deadline.
↗ Business operations continued without interruption during the build.
↗ Replication reached full sync with no data loss, despite bandwidth limits.
↗ Elastic capacity and automated failover for peak loads and unplanned events.
↗ No hardware refresh, lower on-premises maintenance and long-term cost savings.
TECHNOLOGY STACK

Built on proven enterprise foundations.

Oracle Exadata (on premises) · Oracle Exadata Cloud Service on OCI · Oracle Data Guard · OCI cross-region replication · Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance · Oracle Cloud Guard

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