Case Study

DAS PROTECTION JURIDIQUE CASE STUDY

JURIDIQUE Protection is a business-to-consumer (B2C) insurer, providing legal cost protection. Founded in 1925, DAS (Deutscher Automobil Schutz) was the first German insurance company to provide legal cost protection. In 1994, they became part of the DAS International Group, with DAS being renamed DAS Protection Juridique SA (Switzerland). Then, in 1998, DAS International became part of the ERO Group, joining a range of other insurers such as Hamburger-Mannheimer Versicherung, DKV and Victoria.

Note: In April 2018, Allianz Switzerland acquired DAS Legal Protection SA, and in October 2018, DAS merged with CAP Legal Protection Insurance Company Ltd.

About DAS Protection Juridique

As a niche insurer, DAS needs to ensure it provides the same level of data protection for the critical client data it stores as much larger firms while operating within its available IT budgets. For this reason, DAS is always looking for innovative and cost-effective solutions. dbi Services is the leading Swiss IT expert for the handling of enterprise information systems based on Oracle®, and a proven supplier to DAS. dbi Services is also an established Dbvisit partner with extensive experience in Dbvisit’s database replication products. dbi Services’ staff designs, builds and operates cutting-edge IT infrastructure solutions that deliver Gold Standard Disaster Recovery.

The challenge

Working with their partners, including dbi Services and Arrow LLC, DAS settled on a solution that used Oracle Database Appliances and Oracle Standard Edition (SE) databases, with Dbvisit StandbyMP. Oracle Database Appliance integrates software, compute, storage, and network resources to deliver database services for a wide range of custom and packaged online transaction processing (OLTP), in-memory database, and data warehousing applications. Oracle Database Appliance provides a platform that is easy to install and administer, as well as the opportunity to reuse their existing Oracle Standard Edition (SE) licenses. The Oracle Database Appliance has Oracle best practices built-in and is optimized for Oracle databases. The components of each system are balanced to provide optimal database performance for a wide range of enterprise applications. By adding Dbvisit Standby, DAS was able to use the SE licenses to deliver High Availability and Disaster Recovery functionality, with high-speed data replication between two Oracle Database Appliances.

A key benefit of the final solution design was the fact that DAS was able to reuse its existing Oracle licensing. They were able to leverage these licenses to meet their requirements around High Availability and Disaster Recovery, by combining Oracle Database Appliance with Dbvisit Standby.

The Situation:

Dbvisit Standby replicates data between two Oracle Database Appliances
Reduced license cost by using Oracle Standard Edition license
Two databases totalling 1.2TB

The Results

RPO - 10 minutes
RTO - 10 minutes
Easy DR processes reduce risk
Built-in redundancy
24/7 Support

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A key benefit of the final solution design was the fact that DAS was able to reuse its existing Oracle licensing. They were able to leverage these licenses to meet their requirements around High Availability and Disaster Recovery, by combining Oracle Database Appliance with Dbvisit Standby.

Dbvisit Standby ensures DAS’s critical data is always protected and recoverable, and provides an intuitive GUI that makes failover and switchover functions seamless.

By configuring Dbvisit Standby in conjunction with the Oracle Database Appliance appliances, DAS was able to construct a cost-effective Disaster Recovery (DR) and High Availability (HA) solution covering databases totalling 1.2TB.

While Oracle Database Appliance may be marketed as being easy to implement, it does require specialist skills and experience to get the absolute best from the configuration.

dbi Services’ extensive Oracle Database Appliance experience, combined with their understanding of Dbvisit Standby, allowed them to deliver the High Availability environment DAS required using these tools.

Tags: Case Study, Oracle SE

RPO/RTO - 10 minutes

Dbvisit Standby combined with Oracle Database Appliance delivers enterprise-level DR functionality on Oracle SE. The DAS solution operates with a Recovery Point Objective (the maximum data lost in the event of a failure) of ten minutes, and a Recovery Time Objective (the time taken to restore service) of ten minutes once the decision is taken to initiate the failover.

The Central Console uses encryption to securely communicate with the remote Dbvisit Standby installations. The full Dbvisit Standby solution is delivered with Oracle Standard Edition licenses, contributing significantly to the cost-effectiveness of the solution.