Description
This engagement delivers an in-depth architectural review of the customer's current PowerCenter (PC) and IDMC Disaster Recovery (DR) landscapes. We will explore how CDIPC interacts with IDMC during a failover event and evaluate multiple DR architectural patterns. Additionally, we will analyze the pros, cons, and operational "gotchas" of each approach to help you define a resilient, production-ready recovery framework.
Customer Prerequisites
- Current PC and IDMC architecture diagrams.
- Defined RTO and RPO targets.
- Active CDIPC and IDMC licenses.
- Key infrastructure and data integration architects present.
Self-Service Resources
Goals
- Evaluate current-state PC and IDMC DR readiness and gaps.
- Understand CDIPC-to-IDMC runtime and control plane interactions during DR.
- Analyze structural pros, cons, and hidden gotchas of various DR setups.
- Leverage real-world peer experiences to fine-tune your recovery objectives.
- Establish a clear, optimized, and agreed-upon future-state DR strategy.
Business/Technical Outcomes
- Gain actionable clarity on your hybrid DR architecture, complete with validated failover paths, risk mitigations, and a customized blueprint to confidently execute your business continuity strategy.
- Current State Review: PC & IDMC landscape deep-dive.
- Architectural Mechanics: How CDIPC interacts with IDMC during DR.
- DR Pattern Analysis: Evaluation of active-active vs. active-passive models.
- Pros, Cons & Gotchas: Technical trade-offs and operational pitfalls.
- Peer Insights: Real-world customer case studies and lessons learned.
- Interactive Strategy Workshop & Q&A Session.
- Comprehensive DR Architecture conversation.
- Consolidated technical reference documentation and product links.
Required Roles/Personas
- Enterprise / Infrastructure Architects
- IDMC Platform Administrators
- PowerCenter / CDIPC Lead Developer
- Business Continuity / DR Managers
Engagement Details
Catalog Type
Connect with Architect
Engagement Category
PowerCenter Modernization
Products
CDI for PC
Cloud Data Integration for PowerCenter
Engagement Type
Best Practices
Adoption Stage
Implement
Value
Focus Area
Functional
Use Cases & Tags
Analytics and BI
Engagement ID
MOD-006
Disclaimer
- Success Accelerators offers Engagements for Informatica Cloud Services on IDMC platform only.
- All Engagement Topics in the Success Accelerators are intended to be delivered in guidance and advisory mode only. This is implicit and it will not be called out explicitly under each engagement’s scope separately.
- Customers need to include their relevant technical/business team highlighted in each engagement topic to derive the best out of each engagement.
- Customers need to perform any hands-on work by themselves leveraging the guidance from these engagements.
- Customers need to work with Informatica Global Customer Support for any product bugs/issues and troubleshooting.
- Value Accelerator is available only for IDMC Services and this is offered only to eligible customers. Please check with your Customer Success Manager for eligibility before requesting Value Accelerator engagement.