As part of its business continuity and compliance requirements, the organization strengthened its disaster recovery capabilities by transitioning from manual, effort-intensive recovery processes to a resilient, standardized, and audit-ready continuity framework that ensures operational resilience, minimizes disruption, and supports sustained business operations during adverse events.
Business Objective
The goal was simple to say and demanding to deliver make recovery fast, automatic, and provable, and give IT its time back.
Three objectives defined by the initiative:
- Make Recovery a Certainty, not a Scramble: Set aggressive recovery targets and build a framework that meets them every time, not just on paper.
- Let Automation Carry the Load: Replace manual, people-dependent recovery steps with processes that run, repeat, and prove themselves on demand.
- Free IT for the Business: Take disaster recovery off the team’s daily plate so their energy goes to growth, not firefighting.
Challenges
Standing between ambition and reality:
- Recovery that depended on manual steps - slow, effort-heavy, and easy to get wrong under pressure
- No confident answer to the board’s simplest question: “if systems go down, how fast are we back?”
- Compliance exposure from recovery procedures that weren’t documented or repeatable
- Skilled IT people tied up managing DR instead of driving business priorities
- A legacy setup falling further behind a business scaling across sectors
Solution Delivered
Path Infotech designed and implemented a modern Hybrid DRaaS solution on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, blending the stability of the group’s existing systems with the flexibility of the cloud. Recovery went from a manual playbook to an automated capability. What the new framework delivers:
- Automated recovery across the group’s critical applications and databases - no manual scramble
- Simplified DR drills that can be scheduled and executed regularly with minimal effort, keeping recovery readiness continuously validated instead of tested once a year
- Clear, live visibility into recovery readiness at any moment
- Documented, repeatable procedures that stand up to any audit
- A hybrid architecture that adds resilience without disturbing what already works
Solution Architecture: Full-Stack DR on OCI with DBVisit and RackWare
True enterprise resilience on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure depends on a principle that is easy to state and often overlooked: the database and the application layer need to be protected differently. Treating them as one is what turns a recovery into a data corruption incident. By combining DBVisit and RackWare, Path Infotech delivered a highly automated, cost-optimized, full-stack disaster recovery architecture - each layer protected by the right technology for the job.
DBVisit: The Transactional Database Standard
Standard virtual machine replication carries a real risk of database corruption. DBVisit removes that risk through log-based replication, guaranteeing absolute transactional integrity.
- The definitive DR tool for Oracle Database Standard Edition, delivering Data Guard-like protection cost-effectively
- Full coverage for Microsoft SQL Server across both OCI IaaS and PaaS environments
- Consistent, corruption-free failovers with automated switchovers
RackWare: Agile Application Replication
While DBVisit protects the data, RackWare secures everything that runs on top of it - operating systems, binaries, and the complex configurations that make an application work. It captures source virtual machines and replicates them to OCI using highly efficient delta syncs.
- A “pilot-light” model that drives down total cost of ownership - syncing to minimal-footprint OCI compute instances that scale dynamically to full production size only during a disaster or an isolated DR test
- Application servers that are instantly bootable and correctly configured on recovery
- Efficient, incremental replication that keeps the DR environment current without heavy network overhead
The Synergy
Together, the two technologies close the gap that single-tool approaches leave open. RackWare ensures application servers come up instantly and correctly configured, while DBVisit guarantees that Oracle and SQL Server databases remain transactionally consistent. The result is a full-stack architecture that mitigates risk and enforces strict RTO and RPO compliance across the entire OCI landscape - at a fraction of the cost of maintaining a full standby environment.
Outcomes Achieved
The numbers tell the story:
- Back in under 2 hours - a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 2 hours across critical systems
- Data loss capped at under 10 minutes - a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 10 minutes
- Recovery that runs itself - automation replacing hours of manual effort
- Readiness proven through streamlined, repeatable drills
- Audit-ready documentation strengthening the group’s compliance position
- Corruption-free database failovers guaranteed through log-based replication, not virtual machine snapshots
Business Impact
The real change isn’t in the recovery metrics - it’s in what the organization no longer has to worry about.
Strategic business benefits:
- Leadership can commit to customers and regulators with confidence - continuity is now a proven capability, not a hope
- IT talent redirected from DR upkeep to initiatives that move the business forward
- A compliance posture ready for scrutiny, backed by auditable, repeatable procedures
- Infrastructure that earns its keep - the pilot-light model keeps readiness high and standby costs low
- A resilience foundation that grows with the group, across every sector it operates in
Why Path Infotech
When continuity is on the line, you choose a partner who has done it before. The group selected Path Infotech for its end-to-end expertise across enterprise clouds, infrastructure, and data platforms, and for its conviction that resilience should be proven, not promised.
Path was chosen for:
- Comprehensive, multi-platform expertise spanning cloud infrastructure, databases, and enterprise applications, with specialized strength in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- A full-stack DR architecture built on the right tool for each layer DBVisit for transactional database integrity, RackWare for application replication
- A hybrid model matched the group’s real estate of on-premises and cloud systems
- Regular, structured recovery drills that prove readiness, not documents that assume it
- A working style built around zero disruption to live operations
Conclusion
Resilience isn’t built in the middle of a crisis it’s built long before one. By partnering with Path Infotech on a modern Hybrid DRaaS framework powered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, this ports and logistics group turned disaster recovery from its quietest risk into one of its quietest strengths: always ready, always proven, and never in the way of growth.
Is Your Business Continuity Proven, or Presumed?
If a disruption hit today, how fast would you be back? Talk to Path Infotech’s disaster recovery experts to explore what a Hybrid DRaaS framework can deliver for your business tested, automated, and audit ready. Reach out to reachus@pathinfotech.com to start a conversation.
