Kara Cummings

Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (FNF), number 248 on the Fortune 500, is a leading provider of outsourced products and services, including technology solutions, title and escrow services, personal insurance, claims management services and more.

FNF has standardized on Oracle RAC, Automatic Storage Management, Data Guard, Recovery Manager (RMAN), and Flashback technologies for their Mission-Critical applications - implemented according to the Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) best practices blue print for deploying highly available systems. The application was migrated to Oracle Database 10g Release 2. The application is the eDoc System used to house mortgage title metadata and over 50 million PDF/XML Title Repository documents within the Oracle Database. FNF successfully implemented 10g RAC stack and Grid infrastructures. Additionally, Oracle Recovery Manager was deployed to implement a Backup and Recovery capability and Data Guard was utilized to provide remote disaster recovery and High Availability across a Wide Area Network. Collectively, the utilization of Oracle High Availability Features and implementation utilizing Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture best practices as enabled FNF to meet service level agreements at the lowest cost. The project was initiated in March 2006, and the system was completed and moved into production in June 2006. The new system architecture has proven to be more reliable by eliminating single points of failure and more scalable by providing the capability to add capacity on demand.