Oracle Dataguard is a disaster recovery solution from
Oracle that has been utilized in the industry extensively at times
of Primary site failure, failover, switchover scenarios.
Uses of Oracle Dataguard
a) Oracle Dataguard ensures high availability, data
protection and disaster recovery for enterprise data
b) Dataguard provides a comprehensive set of services that
create, maintain, manage and monitor one or more standby databases to enable
production Oracle databases to survive disasters and data corruptions
c) With Dataguard, administrators can optionally improve
production database performance by offloading resource – intensive backup and
reporting operations to standby systems.