Companies in the banking industry often deal with vast amounts of transactional data. Whether moving money or making payments, they can’t afford to lose data or permit systems to stop working. Database outages can lead to a cascade of technical issues, frustrated customers, lost transactions, and regulatory fines.
A money transfer service wholly owned by a leading commercial bank in the Caribbean and licensed in 10 states in the US and Canada.
Escala 24×7 is a premier AWS consulting partner dedicated to evaluating, migrating, and improving clients’ infrastructure. Escala has completed 1,000+ successful projects, is present in 19+ countries, and was recognized by AWS as System Integrator of the Year 2023 for Latin America.
Escala 24×7’s principal value is becoming part of the customer’s IT team, going far beyond to make an impact, achieve the highest reliability, and provide the best return on investment.
The customer previously used infrastructure hosted in two data centers managed by a 3rd-party provider. Serious incidents affected the provider and disrupted the operation of the money transfer service. It became clear that migrating the entire infrastructure to a trusted public cloud provider was the only way to ensure the continuous operation of the customer’s money transfer service. However, there was no time to rework the application or database software layers. Lift-and-shift was the only feasible approach.
Escala 24×7 was already engaged with the client, hosting its backups in AWS, and knew the cloud would serve these purposes well. Escala’s team drew upon a wealth of experience migrating client infrastructure to AWS. The challenge came when Ronald Blanco, Escala 24×7’s Cloud Architect, realized that Oracle RAC requires an additional solution to operate in AWS.
The customer used Oracle RAC as the database backbone for the money transfer service application. It was the only HA architecture that would enable the required uptime of the database and the entire service. Escala 24×7 and the customer considered a few options but quickly realized FlashGrid was the only viable route to implement Oracle RAC on AWS.
“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
With the help of FlashGrid Launcher, Ronald deployed a POC in the client’s AWS account. He collaborated with in-house DBAs to achieve the appropriate configuration, and security experts from both companies carefully analyzed the architecture. Escala 24x7and the customer decided to spread the RAC database nodes across AWS availability zones to ensure continuous service operation in case of a data center outage.
It wasn’t long before the team had moved their Oracle databases to the cloud. The migration took only two months, from project kick-off to being live in production. They achieved this using FlashGrid’s convenient self-serve tools and billing via AWS Marketplace. The entire process was frictionless and required no technical support from FlashGrid.
“Even though our team is available 24/7 to help with deployments, evaluations, and ongoing maintenance, our platform is designed so customers can be self-sufficient. We also provide easy-to-follow guides and clear documentation every step of the way. Escala 24×7 proved how quick and straightforward Oracle RAC deployments in AWS can be using FlashGrid Launcher.”
Art Danielov, CEO, FlashGrid
The FlashGrid team was pleased with Escala’s level of autonomy but eager to assist with a go-live evaluation. Escala 24×7 appreciated the help and implemented the recommended optimizations. The client also grew and shrank the infrastructure until they achieved an ideal cost/performance balance using smaller, more cost-effective instance types. Thanks to FlashGrid Cluster’s flexibility and robustness, these infrastructure changes didn’t interrupt the stability of the application’s service. Escala 24x7also conveniently used FlashGrid Launcher to deploy development environments for the in-house team to work in freely with no risk.
“FlashGrid’s technical support is excellent, top tier. They have good response times and accuracy. The documentation is great, and everything works well. It’s straightforward. I was able to deploy within a week, having not done something like this before.”
Ronald Blanco, Cloud Architect, Escala 24×7
Escala 24×7 is eager to present FlashGrid’s solution to other customers, helping them complete migrations to the cloud and maximizing Oracle database uptime. To learn more about how FlashGrid can help you, contact us today.
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