Data Center Migration to AWS

Learn how RISO Inc. used Apps Associates services to move their data center to the AWS cloud. In so doing, RISO Inc. avoided capital intensive hardware purchases and redeployed IT staff to projects that directly supported their business goals. We'll also describe how you can integrate your existing environment with the cloud to create a hybrid architecture.

http://youtu.be/jE1-8vjMGrw 

http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/aws-partner-webcast-33342744 

http://www.slideshare.net/tomlaszewski/data-center-migration-to-the-aws-cloud

New England Joint Oracle User Group Meeting

I will be moderating a session (Oracle Applications on AWS) with Oracle and AWS partner App Associates.

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/december-5-2013-new-england-joint-oracle-user-group-meeting-registration-8581428283?access=prescomp120513

Join us at the event to learn how to deploy Oracle Applications on Amazon Web Services.

Oracle Enterprise Applications on AWS

Here is a link a webinar this week:

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/196693106

n this session, we will discuss strategies, tools, and techniques for migrating and running off-the-shelf Oracle  packages on AWS. We'll consider applications like Oracle eBusiness Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Endeca, and Siebel. These applications are complex by themselves, they are frequently customized, they have many touch points on other systems in the enterprise, and they often have large associated databases. Therefore, they may not seem good candidates for the cloud at first look. Nevertheless, running enterprise applications in the cloud affords powerful benefits, and we'll identify the factors and best practices that most influence success. 

Oracle OpenWorld AWS Booth Sessions

•Amazon Web Services Booth:  South Exhibition Hall; booth 415

Monday  10:15 : AWS Overview   10:45 : Running Oracle Software on AWS

    11:15 : RDS Oracle Overview     1:15 : Oracle EM on AWS (Oracle OEM team)

  2:00 : RDS Best Practices      2:45 : Oracle Linux on AWS (Oracle Linux team)

  3:30  How are Oracle customers leveraging AWS ? (App Associates)

    4:30 : Siebel on AWS (Enterprise Beacon)

Tuesday  10:15 : Running Oracle Software on AWS  10:45 : RDS Best Practices  

    11:15 : Accenture  1:15 : Oracle Database Advanced Architectures on AWS     2:00 : CRM Cloud in a Box on AWS (Loyalty Methods) 3:30 : AWS Overview  

    4:30  : PeopleSoft on AWS (DLZP Group)

 

Wednesday  10:15 : RDS Oracle for the Enterprise   10:45 : DR on AWS  

  11:15 NetApp Private Storage for AWS   1:15 : Extending your Data Center to Cloud     2:00  : AWS Overview 2:45 : Oracle EM on AWS   3:30 : Smarter Agent’s Cloud   Forklift to AWS (SmartShift)     

AWS @ Oracle OpenWorld 2013 details

Learn everything you need to run Oracle on AWS and talk to solution architects to address any questions you have: http://aws.amazon.com/oracle/

AWS re:Invent enterprise sessions

DAT202 - Using Amazon RDS to Power Enterprise Applications Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it cheap and easy to deploy, manage, and scale relational databases using a familiar MySQL, Oracle or MS SQL server database engine. Amazon RDS can be an excellent choice for running many large, off-the-shelf enterprise applications from companies like JD Edwards, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Siebel. Sign up for this session to learn how to best leverage Amazon RDS for use with enterprise applications and learn about best practices and data migration strategies.

DAT401 - Advanced Data Migration Techniques for Amazon RDS Migrating data from the existing environments to AWS is a key part of the overall migration to Amazon RDS for most customers. Moving data into Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) from existing production systems in a reliable, synchronized manner with minimum downtime requires careful planning and the use appropriate tools and technologies. Because each migration scenario is different in terms of source and target systems, tools, and data sizes, you'll need to customize your data migration strategy to achieve the best outcome. In this session we will do a deep dive into various methods, tools and technologies that can be put to use for a successful and timely data migration to Amazon RDS.

STG301 - AWS Storage Tiers for Enterprise Workloads - Best Practices Enterprise environments utilize many different kinds of storage technologies from different vendors to fulfill various needs in their IT landscape. These are often very expensive and procurement cycles quite lengthy. They also need specialized expertise in each vendor's storage technologies to configure them and integrate them into the ecosystem, again resulting in prolonged project cycles and added cost. AWS provides end-to-end storage solutions that will fulfill all these needs of Enterprise Environments that are easily manageable, extremely cost effective, fully integrated and totally on demand. These storage technologies include Elastic Block Store (EBS) for instance attached block storage, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for object (file) storage and Amazon Glacier for archival. An enterprise database environment is an excellent example of a system that could use all these storage technologies to implement an end-to-end solution using striped PIOPS volumes for data files, Standard EBS volumes for log files, S3 for database backup using Oracle Secure Backup and Glacier for long-time archival from S3 based on time lapse rules. In this session, we will explore the best practices for utilizing AWS storage tiers for enterprise workloads

STG305 - Disaster Recovery Site on AWS - Minimal Cost Maximum Efficiency Implementation of  disaster recovery (DR) site is crucial for business continuity of any enterprise. Due to the fundamental nature of features like elasticity, scalability and geographic distribution, DR implementation on AWS can be done at 10-50% of the conventional cost. In this session, we will do a deep dive into proven DR architectures on AWS and best practices, tools and techniques get the most out of them.

STG303 - Running Microsoft and Oracle Stacks on Elastic Block Store Run your Enterprise applications on Elastic Block Store (EBS). This session will discuss how you can leverage the block storage platform (EBS) as you move your Microsoft (SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint) and Oracle (Databases, E-business Suite, Business Intelligence) workloads onto Amazon Web Services (AWS). The session will cover high availability, performance, and backup/restore best practices

ENT303 - Migrating Enterprise Applications to AWS - Best Practices, Tools and Techniques In this session we will discuss strategies, tools and techniques for migrating enterprise software systems to AWS. We'll consider applications like Oracle eBusiness Suite, SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel. These applications are complex by themselves; they are frequently customized; they have many touch points on other systems in the enterprise; and they often have large associated databases. Nevertheless, running enterprise applications in the cloud affords powerful benefits. We'll identify success factors and best practices.

On premise application replication and snap shots to AWS for DR

When devising an disaster recovery approach that used AWS for DR of an on premise environment, there are literally hundreds of options for keeping the databases in sync. Each relational database vendor will have five of their own options and their partner ecosystems will offer many more.  For the application, it is different situation.  Their are not many features built into business application  and application servers.  Depending on what DR scenario you are using http://cloudconclave.blogspot.com/2012/11/aws-four-dr-scenarios.html you will be using either replication or snapshots to keep your AWS application in sync with your on premise environment.  
For warm standby and active-active you will need replication:

• RSync : Rsync is cheap (free) and easy.  Rsync can be chatty, does not have compression built in, and you have to code parallelism. 
• BitTorrent : BitTorrent is most often associated with moving large media files over the Internet in a fast matter. BitTorrent now has file syncing capabilities so can be used to sync application server files.  
• Amazon Storage Gateway " attach these volumes as iSCSI devices to your on-premises application servers.  These files will be stored in S3 where they can be instantiate as EBS volumes.

Riverbed Whitewater - http://www.riverbed.com/products-solutions/products/cloud-storage-whitewater/ https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B007O0FXW4/ref=srh_res_product_title?ie=UTF8&sr=0-2&qid=1366938137611#product-detail

Attunity CloudBeam - http://www.attunitycloudbeam.com/solutions/disaster-recovery  https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00B5PB8IM/ref=srh_res_product_title?ie=UTF8&sr=0-3&qid=1366938015695

For backup and restore and pilot light you can use snapshots. 

• FTP or SFTP : FTP and SFTP are the two most common methods to transfer files over the internet.
• HTTP or HTTPs : HTTP and HTTPS can be used but they are slower than S/FTP.  However, if you don't want to require or can not have an FTP client in use than HTTP(s) can be used.  Some companies may not want to open up another port to the outside world have an FTP server running.
• AWS import/export : If files don't need to be synced that often, FedEx, UPS, or Post Office can be the least expensive method with the least amount of hassle (limited coding, no restarting needed)
• Attunity CloudBeam to move files into S3 and than instantiate as EBS volumes.

Oracle EBusiness Suite does offer rapid clone http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18727_01/doc.121/e12841/T120505T120517.htm but this is not for moving production system data files but for setting test, dev, or moving a system to another machine. Weblogic also offers a cloning feature :http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E12839_01/core.1111/e10105/clone.htm

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c - Monitoring Essentials test drive lab

App Associates and AWS just announced a new test drive lab.  This test drive lab demonstrates how OEM 12c can be used to monitor and manage on premise Oracle environments in the cloud.

http://awslabs.appsassociates.com/oemdb-registration.php