Hi I've been advised that ASR (Azure Site Recovery) cannot be used for a SAP HANA DB region failover. I believe our technical teams tried to do something but database corruption occured. I understand that the preferred solution is to use HSR (HANA...

HiWe're looking at migrating a SAP system to Azure, running on a IaaS VM - MS Windows and SQL Server. I understand that the Azure Backup for IaaS on Windows is 'app aware' for SQL Server and therefore you can take an app consistent snapshot. But th...

Hi all I've been looking at the following page to see which certified Azure IaaS services are available for a HANA deployment: https://www.sap.com/dmc/exp/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/enEN/iaas.html#categories=Microsoft%20Azure There are 25 o...

Hi all I'm trying to understand the inner workings of various flash copy / split mirror type backup solutions for an Oracle database. We've been looking at an IBM offering that does an SVC level flash copy / snapshot. Problem is that it needs ...

Hi allJust wondering what backup solutions people are using for large Oracle systems that enable a fast recovery?As far as I can see, only flash copy type solutions are able to offer 'rapid' recovery. We looked at Oracle's Zero Downtime Recovery Appl...