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Driving Resilience: Financial Services Leader Enhances Business Continuity with Oracle on Microsoft Azure

Driving Resilience: Financial Services Leader Enhances Business Continuity with Oracle on Microsoft Azure

Overview

A prominent player in the financial services industry, offers specialized solutions to meet the needs of both retail and corporate clients. Operating in a highly regulated sector, the organization faced challenges in maintaining uninterrupted availability of critical applications while ensuring compliance with strict regulatory standards. To strengthen operational resilience, the company partnered with Constellation GC Software to transition its Disaster Recovery (DR) infrastructure to Microsoft Azure.

The Challenges

The customer relied on an on premises Oracle database to support its business critical applications, but the legacy infrastructure posed several challenges:

Lack of a Robust Disaster Recovery (DR) System: The absence of a reliable DR framework exposed the business to a high risk of operational downtime during outages.
Significant Capital Expenditure: Maintaining on premises infrastructure required substantial upfront investments in hardware, upgrades, and maintenance.
Limited Scalability: The existing environment lacked the agility to scale efficiently in response to evolving business demands.
Complex Compliance Management: Meeting stringent financial regulatory requirements for data protection and availability was increasingly difficult with the current setup.

The Solution

To overcome these challenges, Constellation GC Software designed a comprehensive cloud migration and resilience strategy leveraging Microsoft Azure’s enterprise capabilities:

Migration to Oracle on Azure
Migrated the customer’s Oracle database to Azure, ensuring seamless integration with existing business critical applications.
Utilized Azure’s high performance, enterprise grade infrastructure to support demanding workloads and improve operational efficiency.
Azure Landing Zone Implementation
Deployed a secure, scalable Azure Landing Zone tailored to the organization’s specific operational and compliance requirements.
Created a future ready cloud foundation optimized for expansion and workload flexibility.
Disaster Recovery on Azure
Established a cloud native DR site with automatic failover capabilities, significantly reducing downtime risk.
Achieved low Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) targets, ensuring business continuity during disruptions.
Optimized Connectivity
Integrated Azure ExpressRoute to deliver secure, high speed connectivity between on premises infrastructure and Azure.
Ensured consistent performance for hybrid workloads and critical applications.
Enhanced Security & Compliance
Implemented Microsoft Defender for Cloud for continuous threat monitoring and environment protection.
Strengthened identity and access control with Azure AD Conditional Access and Multi Factor Authentication (MFA), meeting stringent financial compliance standards.

Business Impact

Aspect Before Implementation After Implementation
Business Continuity No DR solution, high risk of downtime Azure-based DR with minimal RTO/RPO
Cost Management High CapEx for on-prem hardware Lower OpEx with Azure’s pay-as-you-go model
Scalability Limited, rigid infrastructure Flexible and dynamic scaling
Security Basic, prone to risks Advanced security with Sentinel & Defender
Compliance Complex, manual processes Streamlined compliance with Azure tools