Overview
Database migrations are one of the most visible and highest risk projects in enterprise IT. Downtime affects customers, regulatory windows affect compliance, and a botched cutover affects everyone who touches the data. Viscosity Technology has spent decades leading these projects, and our reputation is built on finishing them on time with the downtime window your business actually agreed to.
Our team has authored The Data Guard Handbook, we are the premier Quest SharePlex experts, and we are certified Oracle GoldenGate specialists. That combination gives us the widest possible toolkit for moving Oracle databases without disrupting the applications that depend on them.
- Oracle Data Guard migrations
- Quest SharePlex replication
- Oracle GoldenGate
- Cross endian and cross platform
- Database upgrades during migration
- Reverse replication safety net
Why This Matters
The phrase near zero downtime has become a marketing term, and customers have learned to be skeptical when they hear it. Viscosity treats it as an engineering commitment. We design migration architectures that replicate data continuously from the source to the target, validate the target under real workload before cutover, and minimize the final switchover window to the absolute minimum your business requires.
Many of our cutovers run in single digit minutes. A few have been measured in seconds.
Your Path Through Migration
Assess and Design
Source inventory, workload profiling, dependency mapping, target architecture, and replication technology selection.
Pilot and Build
Pilot migration of a small subset to refine the runbook before anything mission critical moves.
Wave Cutover
Phased migration in waves based on business priorities, with hypercare support for the first weeks in production.
Why Viscosity Technology
Our team has delivered database migrations for customers across every industry and at every scale. We are the authors of industry best practice books on Data Guard, Exadata, and Oracle Database performance. We are recognized Oracle ACE Directors and Oracle ACEs. We hold Quest SharePlex certification, Oracle GoldenGate certification, and Oracle strategic partner status.
When your business cannot afford the downtime, cannot afford the risk, and cannot afford the second attempt, Viscosity is the partner you call.
Who This Is For
This service fits organizations upgrading Oracle Database to current versions, customers consolidating onto Exadata or Oracle Database Appliance, companies replatforming from physical to virtualized infrastructure, businesses moving Oracle workloads into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud, and teams running legacy databases on aging Unix platforms moving to Linux.