British Airways Makes Business-Critical Systems Unbreakable and Lowers Total Cost of Ownership

British Airways plc (BA) wanted to guarantee availability of passenger-facing and core back-office processes with instant failover, transparent disaster recovery, unparalleled performance, and seamless scalability. The challenge was to cut system management overhead, reduce hardware costs, and optimize data center efficiency to lower energy consumption. British Airways plc (BA) migrated 35 live databases on 20 clusters, each comprising of two or four nodes onto Oracle Real Application Clusters, having chosen it for applications requiring high availability, disaster recovery, and horizontal scalability.