Introduction
Google and Oracle have long been leaders in empowering enterprises with cutting-edge technology stacks. Many Fortune 2000 companies rely on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for its robust security, infrastructure, data, and AI capabilities and its focus on application modernization. At the same time, Oracle Databases are trusted for their unparalleled performance, scalability, reliability, and security.
As digital transformation becomes a priority for organizations worldwide, many businesses are modernizing their applications and data architectures. A significant number of these enterprises, already relying on Oracle databases, have chosen GCP as their preferred cloud platform.
Historically, the lack of a formal partnership between Oracle and Google Cloud made it difficult for organizations to migrate their Oracle workloads to GCP. However, the recent global collaboration between Oracle and Google Cloud has opened the door to support Oracle databases on native GCP infrastructure and Oracle Exadata infrastructure. This strategic collaboration enables businesses to migrate Oracle-based applications to the cloud as part of their broader transformation strategies.
Moving to the cloud offers significant automation benefits, allowing IT teams to focus on innovation rather than administration, but managing self-hosted Oracle databases on GCP presents challenges. These include patch management, provisioning, backups, configuration, availability, and OS management. Additionally, fragmented data management experiences create inefficiencies that limit resources for strategic business initiatives.
The absence of a fully managed Oracle service on GCP has been a key obstacle for organizations seeking to modernize. Tessell addresses this challenge by providing a fully managed database service for Oracle on Google Cloud.
Tessell for Google Cloud
Tessell simplifies the deployment and management of Oracle databases on Google Cloud, offering a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) that takes the complexity out of your cloud infrastructure. Whether you're using Oracle Enterprise Edition or Oracle Standard Edition 2, Tessell ensures a seamless, hassle-free experience by handling all aspects of your database management, from provisioning to maintenance.
With Tessell, you can access a robust suite of built-in data management tools designed to automate routine database tasks and eliminate the manual overhead typically associated with Oracle databases. By automating these day-to-day operations, Tessell frees up valuable time for your developers and data engineers, allowing them to focus on driving business growth rather than administrative chores.
Tessell’s fully managed solution simplifies the end-to-end lifecycle of your Oracle databases. It offers an elegant and efficient way to manage your data infrastructure while ensuring optimal performance, security, and compliance on Google Cloud.
Let’s see how Tessell delivers an end-to-end, fully managed database service.
A Managed Service for the Enterprise
Many enterprises that rely on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications face compatibility challenges when using traditional managed database services. These challenges often stem from rigid automation frameworks, limited customization options, and a lack of support for essential legacy features for specific business-critical applications. As a result, organizations are frequently forced to manage Oracle deployments themselves, which leads to increased operational costs and reduced efficiency.
Tessell for Oracle on Google Cloud addresses these pain points by offering a flexible, enterprise-grade solution that adapts to your unique requirements. Unlike conventional managed database services, Tessell enables businesses to maintain their preferred IT configurations, such as monitoring via Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) or audit management through Data Access Management (DAM), while migrating to the cloud. This ensures that the transition to Google Cloud is seamless and that the existing workflows and governance frameworks are preserved.
Moreover, Tessell’s platform combines the best of both Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). It provides PaaS's automation and operational efficiency with the flexibility and control of IaaS. This hybrid approach enables businesses to benefit from automated database operations, such as patching, backup, and scaling, while retaining the ability to customize and configure the environment to meet specific business needs.
With Tessell, enterprises can leverage a fully managed Oracle database service on Google Cloud without sacrificing the flexibility or control they need. The platform provides an ideal solution for businesses that want to modernize their infrastructure while maintaining the operational characteristics of their on-premise systems.
Easy Backup & Recovery
Tessell ensures enterprise-grade data protection and availability for Oracle databases on Google Cloud with a robust, automated backup and recovery solution. Its Availability Machine automatically takes regular snapshots and log backups, creating a near-zero data loss infrastructure that ensures your data is always safe, accessible, and recoverable. Whether you're dealing with day-to-day operations or critical recovery scenarios, Tessell streamlines the entire process, making it as simple and reliable as possible.
Tessell offers flexible options for long-term data retention and compliance needs. Cloud snapshots can be converted into native Oracle RMAN backups, ensuring your data is stored in a format that aligns with your compliance and regulatory requirements. This feature allows you to retain backups for as long as necessary while avoiding vendor lock-in. Whether you're storing backups for years or maintaining them for short-term operational needs, Tessell enables you to manage backup lifecycles to fit your business needs.
In case of an incident, urgent business requirement, or routine recovery operation, Tessell makes recovery effortless. With just a single click, your Database Administrators (DBAs) can restore your database to the most recent committed transaction (maximum) or perform a point-in-time recovery. Additionally, Tessell offers the ability to restore from any previous snapshot, allowing you to recover a database to any chosen state—whether it’s a recent or historical backup. This flexibility gives you full control over your recovery options and ensures that no data is ever lost or untraceable.
Tessell’s automated backup and recovery options relieve your IT teams of the burden, ensuring minimal downtime and maximum business continuity. The platform’s robust features offer peace of mind that your data is fully protected, whether you are recovering from a system failure, migrating to a new environment, or ensuring compliance with industry regulations.
Patching made simple
Keeping Oracle databases updated with the latest patches is essential for ensuring security, performance, and compliance. However, manual patching can be time-consuming and prone to error, often requiring significant attention from your IT teams. Tessell simplifies this critical task by automating patch management, making the process seamless and efficient.
With Tessell, patches for minor version upgrades are applied automatically, ensuring that your Oracle databases always run the most current, secure, and optimized versions. The platform provides full control over your patching schedule, allowing you to either set a preferred time for automatic patch application or initiate on-demand patching with just a click. This flexibility helps minimize disruptions and ensures that updates are applied to best suit your business’s operational needs.
Patching automation reduces administrative overhead and enhances consistency, ensuring that patches are applied uniformly across your environment. This eliminates the risk of human error, reduces downtime, and helps maintain system stability—key factors in running mission-critical Oracle workloads in the cloud.
Whether you're managing patch cycles for security updates, performance enhancements, or new features, Tessell ensures that patching is handled smoothly and efficiently. With its user-friendly interface, you can monitor patch statuses and gain visibility into the process, all while freeing up your teams from the routine tasks of patch management. This allows them to focus on more strategic initiatives that drive business value.
Multi-AZ High Availability (HA) and Cross-Region Disaster Recovery (DR)
For mission-critical Oracle workloads, maintaining High Availability (HA) and ensuring Disaster Recovery (DR) capabilities are non-negotiable. Tessell offers built-in Multi-Availability Zone (AZ), High Availability (HA), and cross-region Disaster Recovery (DR) to meet the demands of organizations that require the highest levels of data reliability, business continuity, and resilience.
With Multi-AZ HA, Tessell ensures that your Oracle databases are continuously available by distributing database instances across multiple availability zones within a region. This geographic redundancy minimizes the risk of downtime in the event of localized failures, such as hardware issues or network outages. Should one availability zone experience a problem, your database will automatically failover to a healthy instance in another zone, ensuring uninterrupted service and minimal disruption to your business operations.
In addition to high availability within a region, Tessell provides robust cross-region Disaster Recovery (DR). In the event of a regional failure or catastrophic incident, Tessell enables your database to be swiftly recovered in a secondary region, ensuring business continuity even in the face of major disruptions. This feature is essential for organizations requiring geographic redundancy and cannot afford to risk prolonged downtime, even in extreme scenarios.
Tessell's Multi-AZ HA and cross-region DR capabilities deliver four-nines (99.99%) availability, ensuring your databases are always accessible when needed. These built-in features are designed to provide the same level of reliability that businesses expect from traditional on-premises Oracle deployments but with the added flexibility and scalability of Google Cloud.
By eliminating the complexity of manual failover management and redundant infrastructure setup, Tessell allows your teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than managing uptime and availability. Whether you're running mission-critical applications or maintaining essential business processes, Tessell’s HA and DR features provide the peace of mind that your data is protected, resilient, and always accessible—regardless of unforeseen events.
Delightful Data Management
Managing data for Oracle databases often involves various administrative tasks—from data masking and sanitization to cloning and exporting—that can consume significant time and resources. Tessell simplifies these processes by providing intuitive, automated tools that make managing and sharing data simple and secure.
With Tessell's Availability Machine, even the most complex data management tasks can be performed effortlessly. Whether you need to create snapshots, native backups, sanitized data for testing, or database dumps (logical exports), Tessell enables you to do it all with just a few clicks. This reduces the manual intervention required and streamlines your data management workflows.
Tessell also offers powerful data-sharing capabilities through its Data Access Policies (DAP). These policies allow you to securely share specific datasets with different environments, such as User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Quality Assurance (QA), or Development. These data-sharing features are fully customizable, enabling secure access to critical data while ensuring that sensitive information is appropriately masked or sanitized in accordance with your organization's compliance and privacy requirements.
Whether you work with data across different regions, environments, or teams, Tessell ensures seamless and compliant data sharing and management. The platform’s easy-to-use interface and automated tools enable users—regardless of their technical background—to manage and access data efficiently, enhancing collaboration and accelerating development cycles.
Flexibility At Your Terms
While Tessell offers a comprehensive suite of out-of-the-box features that meet the needs of most enterprise environments, it also provides unmatched flexibility to accommodate each business's unique requirements. Whether you're migrating existing Oracle workloads, customizing your cloud infrastructure, or maintaining specific operational preferences, Tessell allows you to tailor the service to your exact specifications.
Tessell supports a Bring Your Own X (BYOX) approach, allowing you to customize multiple aspects of your Oracle database deployment. This flexibility ensures that your cloud environment integrates seamlessly with your existing infrastructure and security policies, giving you full control over your environment while still benefiting from Tessell’s fully managed database service.
Key elements of Tessell's flexibility include:
- Bring Your Own Cloud Account (BYOA): Manage your Google Cloud account, ensuring you retain full control over billing, cloud resources, and cost management while benefiting from Tessell’s fully managed Oracle service.
- Bring Your Own Network (BYON): Seamlessly integrate your existing network architecture (VPC, Subnets, etc.) with Tessell’s managed services, ensuring that your network security and access policies are maintained across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Bring Your Own Keys (BYOK): Use your encryption keys to retain control over encryption and data security. Tessell supports various key management solutions, giving you the flexibility to comply with industry-specific security requirements.
- Bring Your Own Identity Providers (BYOI): Integrate your existing identity and access management (IAM) system with Tessell to ensure consistent and secure authentication and authorization processes across your cloud environment.
- Bring Your Own Software Images (BYOS): You can customize your database environment using your Oracle database images. This allows you to maintain version control and compatibility with legacy configurations.
- Bring Your Own Licenses (BYOL): If you already have Oracle licenses, you can bring them along when migrating to the cloud, helping you reduce costs and leverage existing investments.
- Bring Your Own Database Parameters (BYOP): Tessell allows you to maintain and apply your custom Oracle database configurations so you can retain the fine-tuned settings that work best for your business.
This Bring Your Own architecture ensures that Tessell provides the best of both worlds: the simplicity and automation of a fully managed service combined with the flexibility and control of a more customizable solution. Whether you want to maintain strict governance, adhere to specific compliance standards, or preserve certain configurations, Tessell allows you to manage your cloud environment on your own terms.
Migrations
Migrating Oracle databases to the cloud is often complex and resource-intensive, especially when moving from on-premises environments or transitioning from self-managed databases to the cloud. Tessell streamlines this process, providing comprehensive, end-to-end migration support to ensure a smooth transition to Google Cloud.
Whether you're migrating from on-premises infrastructure, another cloud provider, or even a self-managed Oracle deployment, Tessell offers a migration solution that reduces the time, cost, and risk typically associated with database migration projects. Tessell's expert team, equipped with in-depth knowledge of Oracle workloads and cloud infrastructure, handles every aspect of the migration process, ensuring minimal disruption to your business operations.
Tessell supports a range of migration scenarios, from small-scale migrations to large, complex enterprise environments. It seamlessly integrates with existing database configurations, ensuring that applications continue to operate smoothly without requiring major reconfiguration. This flexibility makes it ideal for businesses with unique needs or those who rely on customized Oracle environments.
With Tessell, database migrations are no longer a roadblock to cloud adoption. The platform simplifies the entire process, delivering a fast, secure, and hassle-free transition to a fully managed Oracle database environment on Google Cloud.
