Continuent has announced that it is co-operating with Miracle Finland Oy in customer installation, tuning and administration of Continuent's Tungsten Replicator for Oracle.

The Continuent Tungsten for Oracle is designed to:

• Replicate between Oracle database instances (Express, SE1, SE and EE): maximize database uptime and throughput by replicating the master database to multiple slaves, distributing reads to slaves, and promoting slaves automatically during planned maintenance or when the master fails.
• Provide heterogeneous replication: supply edge application data from core Oracle OLTP server by heterogeneous replication from an Oracle instance to and from MySQL instances and to PostgreSQL, with high fidelity and rapid transfer rates.
• Implement reliable, zero-downtime Oracle database migration and upgrade by applying upgrades to a replica instance and then promoting the upgraded copy to be a master. In addition to minimizing downtime, this approach provides a back-out in the event of migration problems.

"Continuent Tungsten provides a reliable and scalable platform that is ideally-suited for business critical applications," said Tuomas Pystynen, Managing Director at Miracle Finland Oy. "Together we can offer mutual customers a combination of superior implementation services with continuous data availability technology that will increase their competitiveness.