Archive for September, 2009
Posted by davidstech on September 23, 2009
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. Database masking provides companies with a centralized solution to manage the test data management process for clone creation, productivity and data security.
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.
Data management solutions provide organizations with the tools to mitigate risk, reduce storage costs, enforce consistent security policies, database auditing, and to retire legacy applications. They also help in data archiving so as to support eDiscovery by creating a secure, controlled, and searchable archive for all data – application, email, documents and other files.
Enterprise class business applications require multiple copies be made to support test data management tool 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.
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Posted by davidstech on September 23, 2009
Often many applications, which were yielding good results for the companies, become outmoded when organizations grow, merge or strengthen their operations; since not much attention is paid to maintain these applications. Application Retirement is the best solution for doing away with disused applications as they expend a lot of resources, storage etc while benefiting the organization very little.
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.
PeopleSoft Applications have been recording and storing mission critical information for several organizations. But too much of load on databases weighs heavily on application servers, impacting performance and report response rates cannot be overlooked. Organizations can create and deploy effective and consistent policies for managing, securing and storing data from a single console with database archiving for PeopleSoft Applications. PeopleSoft archiving reduces IT maintenance otherwise associated with large data volumes. It also maintains seamless data access to archive data through native PeopleSoft Application interfaces.
MySQL technology has been saving time and money for the several large organizations by powering their high-volume websites, business-critical systems and commercial software. Enterprise data management is a proven solution to manage growth in application and custom databases by reallocating data out of production systems into secondary, lower cost storage systems while maintaining seamless data access through the native application or BI layer.
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Posted by davidstech on September 17, 2009
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 the key to managing data for its value to the organization.
Most enterprise class business applications require multiple copies be made to support test data management processes such as patch, test, QA, etc. Hence 6-8 full size clones are prepared, thereby potentially exposing sensitive application data. To ensure sensitive data remains protected against the largest source of vulnerability, the internal threat; data management suites allow telecom operators to identify data that meets specific security and retention requirements and automate how the data is protected and managed throughout its entire lifecycle.
Application retirement helps organizations to reduce cost while maintaining access to the data either through the creation of a common data store or by data migration into an existing enterprise application. This helps in operational efficiency and reducing cost.
Every kind of storage is bound to overflow sometime or the other; it also applies to software industries. Companies that have large storage data, which would also be needed for future trend analysis, reduce retrieval speed. Such companies can opt for data archiving solutions. Data archiving is built on the concept of preserving data through classification and storage, helps in improving throughput.
Application retirement is a growing necessity for many organizations as they grow, merge or consolidate operations. The number of enterprise systems that IT departments support continues to grow. Strategic moves away from proprietary mainframe and applications systems coupled with efforts to reduce IT spending on existing infrastructure are bringing focus on application retirement as a way to fund new projects or make the existing IT budget go farther.
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Posted by davidstech on September 17, 2009
Information Lifecycle Management solutions are designed to help enterprises manage data growth by providing the tools classify, archive and migrate data to improve application performance and reduce administrative overhead and infrastructure costs. Enterprise data management offer 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.
Data masking provides companies with a centralized solution to manage the test data management process for clone creation, productivity and data security. As a result, there is a great risk of this data being used for unlawful activities. Data masking helps in protecting data in less secure environments.
Data management solutions provide organizations with the tools to mitigate risk, reduce storage costs, enforce consistent security policies, data auditing, and to retire legacy applications. They also help in data archiving so as to support eDiscovery by creating a secure, controlled, and searchable archive for all data – application, email, documents and other files
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. It also has an option of creating a template that contains only the required information.
Archiving in peoplesoft enables management solutions for performance, security and information access. The result is improved application performance and availability through smaller production database sizes, shorter backup and recovery times, reduced labor costs to maintain the production system and lower storage costs.
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Posted by davidstech on September 9, 2009
Too much data can slow application and reporting performance and tax IT resources. Utilizing data management tools to actively manage the growth of application data is the key to managing data for its value to the organization. Enterprise Data Archiving solution is part of the Enterprise Data Management Suite that enables centralized management of data classification and security policies.
Data in production systems use highly available redundant Tier 1 storage systems. Enterprise data archiving is a proven strategy to relocate data to less expensive Tier 2 storage, reducing the need to continuously add to storage to production systems. Most experts conclude up to 80% of production data is no longer mission critical, using data archiving reduces overall storage costs while maintaining access through the native application.
Information Lifecycle Management solutions are designed to help enterprises manage data growth by providing the tools classify, archive and migrate data to improve application performance and reduce administrative overhead and infrastructure costs.
Every kind of storage is bound to overflow sometime or the other; it also applies to software industries. Companies that have large storage data, which would also be needed for future trend analysis, reduce retrieval speed. Such companies can opt for data archiving solutions. Data archiving is built on the concept of preserving data through classification and storage, helps in improving throughput.
Database cloning creates a database template and restores or inserts only the transactions or modules needed. The Insert Method for database cloning allows IT organizations to create subsets much faster as only the data needed for the test is cloned, resulting in a faster cloning process and reduced storage requirement. Whichever subset method is used, referential integrity is maintained. Database cloning is therefore very helpful in protecting data in less secure environments.
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Posted by davidstech on September 9, 2009
Application retirement is a growing necessity for many organizations as they grow, merge or consolidate operations. The number of enterprise systems that IT departments support continues to grow. Strategic moves away from proprietary mainframe and applications systems coupled with efforts to reduce IT spending on existing infrastructure are bringing focus on application retirement as a way to fund new projects or make the existing IT budget go farther.
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.
Most enterprise class business applications require multiple copies be made to support test data management processes such as patch, test, QA, etc. Hence 6-8 full size clones are prepared, thereby potentially exposing sensitive application data. To ensure sensitive data remains protected against the largest source of vulnerability, the internal threat; data management suites allow telecom operators to identify data that meets specific security and retention requirements and automate how the data is protected and managed throughout its entire lifecycle.
Data migration is a metadata based tool that allows companies to map metadata between applications and create conversion rules for faster and seamless data migration. It acts as an efficient project accelerator for migrations of any nature.
Data management solutions provide organizations with the tools to mitigate risk, reduce storage costs, enforce consistent security policies, data auditing, and to retire legacy applications. They also help in database archiving so as to support eDiscovery by creating a secure, controlled, and searchable archive for all data – application, email, documents and other files.
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Posted by davidstech on September 2, 2009
It is a common fact that most database applications store company’s confidential details such as employee information, client information, company’s financial details etc. Most often these details need to be shared with developers and others while providing production support for upgrades, training, outsourcing etc. As a result there is a great risk of this data being used for unlawful activities. Data masking helps in protecting data in less secure environments.
Often many applications, which were yielding good results for the companies, become outmoded when organizations grow, merge or strengthen their operations; since not much attention is paid to maintain these applications. Application retirement is the best solution for doing away with disused applications as they expend a lot of resources, storage etc while benefiting the organization very little.
Data migration is a metadata based tool that allows companies to map metadata between applications and create conversion rules for faster and seamless data migration. It acts as an efficient project accelerator for migrations of any nature.
Data subsettting decreases storage requirements and increases IT productivity by reducing the overall size of the final database clone. Database Administrators and Developers can select sets of transactions or application modules and remove the data through deletion or truncation, or use the more efficient Insert Method for database cloning.
Archiving in peoplesoft enables management solutions for performance, security and information access. The result is improved application performance and availability through smaller production database sizes, shorter backup and recovery times, reduced labor costs to maintain the production system and lower storage costs.
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Posted by davidstech on September 2, 2009
Too much data can slow application and reporting performance and tax IT resources. Utilizing data management tools to actively manage the growth of application data is the key to managing data for its value to the organization. Enterprise Data Archiving solution is part of the Enterprise Data Management Suite that enables centralized management of data classification and security policies.
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.
Most enterprise class business applications require multiple copies be made to support test data management processes such as patch, test, QA, etc. Hence 6-8 full size clones are prepared, thereby potentially exposing sensitive application data. To ensure sensitive data remains protected against the largest source of vulnerability, the internal threat; data management suites allow telecom operators to identify data that meets specific security and retention requirements and automate how the data is protected and managed throughout its entire lifecycle.
This allows faster, seamless, and controlled data migration while implementing information lifecycle management by storing current data on high availability storage tiers, historical data on cheaper storage tiers and the data that is no longer needed to be accessed online on offline storage such as optical, magnetic, and similar media. Data is asset to an organization which used to showcase how well it manage and protect vital information. Any inappropriate usage may lead to breach of security and loss of data privacy.
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