A virtualized archive solution to manage data

Data that has been relocated after classification is protected from redundant searches or data addition. This helps in maintaining integrity and reduces the strain on database servers. When a quarterly or yearly trend analysis is performed it allows for convenient data purging also. Automation of archiving and purging is available as Data archiving solutions. They can be used by multiple projects at the same time and data retrieval is very convenient.

Enterprise customers running Oracle E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Baan and more depend on enterprise applications to run their businesses. Coupled with support for custom applications running on Oracle, IBM, Informix, MS SQL, MySQL or other RDMS with JDBC driver support, Data Archiving solution is the complete solution for all enterprise data archiving needs.

How to archive data?

Data is the life blood of any organization, but too much data can slow application and reporting performance and tax IT resources. Utilizing database archiving to actively manage the growth of application data is key to managing data for its value to the organization.

Enterprise Database Archiving restores application performance up to 50% by relocating inactive data from your production database to a secure online data archive. Database Archiving automates the archive and purge process by offloading underutilized data from the production environment, ensuring good operational performance during heavy load times such as quarter end.

Data masking tool

Enterprise class business applications require multiple copies be made to support test data management processes such as patch, test, QA, and training. Most companies make 6-8 full size clones for every production application, not only wasting storage and time in cloning but potentially exposing sensitive application data to the test environment. Secure Test and Development provides companies with a centralized solution to manage the test data management process for data masking creation, productivity and data security.

Creating data masking is a labor intensive and manual process where servers, applications and storage devices are configured for each new clone, an inefficient process for a routine data center activity. By automating the cloning and post-cloning processes, clones are created and configured faster and with fewer errors.

Test Data Management

Test data management is a strategy for organizations to manage their test and development processes to meet application development and testing requirements, streamline cloning processes and secure data so organizations are equipped to deliver the clones needed to meet upgrade and patch cycles and maintain data security.

The solution for test data management allows companies to securely manage test data management processes with a single tool.  There is no need for multiple installations of database tools for each server environment. Test data management helps organizations to secure the test and development environment from internal and external theft by protecting sensitive data from unauthorized access.

Improving IT Efficiency with Automated Cloning

Database cloning is a practical solution for the problem of protecting sensitive information that is shared while providing production support for upgrades, patching, testing etc. It has several options for reducing security risk. One such is that it creates clones of databases which would be smaller than the actual one by copying only the required data. Creating clones is a labor intensive and manual process where servers, applications and storage devices are configured for each new clone, an inefficient process for a routine data center activity.

By automating the cloning and post-cloning processes, clones are created and configured faster and with fewer errors. Database cloning also has an option of creating a template that contains only the required information.

Oracle E-Business Application Archiving

Organizations can mitigate the impact of data growth by running batch reports during downtimes, creating additional partitions, purchasing faster hardware or utilizing the purge functionality within the application stack. None of these techniques fully address the reality of application growth coupled with the need for long term data retention. E-Business suite archiving is an efficient solution to enhance application performance through smaller production database sizes, shorter backup and recovery times, reduced labor costs to maintain the production system and lower storage costs.

Oracle E-Business suite archiving records and stores mission critical information for corporations. Over time, the load from millions of transactions added to the system daily weighs heavily on application servers, impacting performance and report response rates.

Enterprise Data Management for Performance

With enterprise data management, organizations can create and deploy consistent policies for classifying, tiering and managing archive data from a single archive policy console. The result is improved application performance and availability through smaller production database sizes, shorter backup and recovery windows, reduced labor costs and lower infrastructure requirements.

Enterprise data management offers solution for compliance and information lifecycle management. The solutions offered streamline information management, security and automate data storage and retrieval to enable compliance and E-Discovery through long term data retention, data masking, database audit and enterprise search.

Application Sunsetting & Migration

Application retirement is a viable strategy for eliminating redundant legacy applications, thereby improving operational efficiency and reducing costs.  By reducing the number of applications within the IT infrastructure, DBAs can concentrate on maintaining critical business applications with the highest value to the organization instead of compiling data from disparate sources.

Application retirement allows organizations to Implement Data Migration projects across applications: Legacy, Mainframe, BaaN, JDE, PeopleSoft, Siebel Oracle, SAP, etc. while allowing changes to chart of accounts, organization structure, costing methods, etc.

Benefits of the Enterprise Data Archiving Solution

Organizations can mitigate the impact of data growth by running batch reports during downtimes, purchasing faster hardware or purge data from the application. None of these strategies fully address the reality of application growth coupled with the need for long term data retention. Data archiving solutions automates the archive and purge process by offloading underutilized data from the production environment, ensuring good operational performance during heavy load times such as the quarter end.

Data archiving solutions helps in reinstating the application’s performance to 50% by archiving inactive data. It enables in improving and reducing storage and IT costs. Users of Oracle E-Business Suite, Baan, Oracle JD Edwards, Oracle PeopleSoft, Siebel and more benefit a great deal by data archiving solutions.

Enterprise Data Archiving for Storage Optimization

Data is the life blood of any organization, but too much data can slow application and reporting performance and tax IT resources. Utilizing database archiving to actively manage the growth of application data is a key to manage data for its value to the organization.

Data archiving for the enterprise helps in reinstating the application’s performance to 50% by archiving inactive data. Enterprise data archiving achieves this by storing data in the less expensive Tier 2 storage system instead of Tier 1, which is the normal case. The advantage of data archiving is that as the organization doesn’t need large data sets the IT costs decrease to a minimum. Users of Oracle E-Business Suite, Baan, Oracle JD Edwards, Oracle PeopleSoft, Siebel and more benefit a great deal by data archiving.