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Oracle infrastructure architecture and design
InfoSapient captures your business and technical requirements, designs an Oracle environment that meets them, and plans the deployment so it succeeds.
Oracle infrastructure architecture
Design that starts from business requirements
Performance, scalability, security, and maintainability all depend on design decisions. Getting them right starts with complete business requirements.
We design, build, and deploy a solution that meets those requirements and follows established best practices, and we look for opportunities to reduce cost along the way. Architecture decisions follow what the business needs, not a preferred vendor or platform.
- Design, build, and deployment services
- Security built into every solution
- Solutions customized for each customer
- Oracle Linux systems
- Failover and fault tolerance
- Validation and testing
Design considerations
Six questions every Oracle design has to answer
Each one shapes hardware, platform, and configuration choices, and each affects the others.
Performance
How fast does it need to be?
Query response times, transaction throughput, and data loading speed are key measures in every deployment. Meeting them shapes the design, the hardware, and the server configuration.
Size and growth
How big will it get?
Estimating the initial size of applications and databases, and how they will grow, drives storage capacity, scalability, and the choice between hardware and cloud platforms.
Availability
How much downtime is acceptable?
The required level of availability for backups and disaster recovery sets the design. It may call for redundant hardware, data replication, automated snapshots, and a robust backup and recovery strategy.
Security
What has to be protected, and where?
Security best practices apply at the application, database, operating system, platform, and network levels. A setting in one area can affect security in another, so the layers are designed together, and security monitoring is designed in, not added later.
Licensing
What will it cost to license?
Re-architecting an existing environment, especially when re-platforming, can lower licensing costs. Consolidation opportunities are analyzed and built into the design to reduce operating and capital expenditure.
Legacy systems and integration
What does it need to connect to?
If the database must integrate with legacy systems, compatibility and connectivity requirements belong in the design from the start, along with the security impact of those systems.
Engineering method
From requirements to a validated deployment
Each stage produces something the next one depends on, so decisions are traceable and problems surface before go-live.
Capture requirements
Performance targets, growth, availability, security, integration, licensing, and budget, agreed with the people who own them.
Design to the requirements
An architecture that meets them and follows best practice, with cost-reduction opportunities identified along the way.
Build
Infrastructure built to the design on Oracle Linux, on-premises or in the cloud, with configuration documented as it goes.
Validate and test
Performance, failover, and recovery behavior checked against the requirements before production use.
Deploy
A controlled move into production, with documentation your team can rely on afterward.
Start a conversation
Designing something new, or re-architecting what you have?
Share your requirements and constraints. We’ll talk through options and the trade-offs between them. Initial consultations are free.
Or email us directlycontact@infosapient.com