Julie Lockner
Next Generation Database Archiving for Oracle Applications at Collaborate13
The OAUG hosted its annual convention, Collaborate13, this week in Denver, Colorado. The week started out with beautiful spring weather and turned quickly into frigid temperatures with a snow flurry bonus. The rapid change in weather didn’t stop 4,000 attendees from elevating their application knowledge in the mile high city. One topic that was very well attended from our perspective was the evolution of database archiving. (more…)
Why Backups Are Terrible Archives
Businesses retain information in an Enterprise data archiving either for compliance – adhere to data retention regulations – or because business users are afraid to let go of data they are used to having access to. Many IT have told us they retain data in archives because they are looking to cut infrastructure costs and do not have retention requirements clearly articulated from the business. As a result, enterprise data archiving has morphed into serving multiple purposes for IT –they can eliminate costs associated with maintaining aging data in production applications, allow business users to access the information on demand, all while adhering to some – if any known or defined – retention policies. (more…)
Is The Data Explosion Impacting You? How Do You Compare To Your Peers?
The digitization of everything is creating a data explosion near you. Whether data is accumulating in the data center, in the cloud, on your laptop or mobile device, sometimes too much of something isn’t always a good thing. In a recent webinar cohosted by Informatica and Symantec, we polled our listeners to find out how the data explosion was impacting them. We also asked what type of unstructured and structured data is growing the fastest. Check out what they said. (more…)
Improve Efficiencies in Test Data Management
According to analysts[1], users spend the majority of the application development lifecycle in development and testing and the least amount of time in quality management and documentation. This is probably not very shocking to anyone in QA or on a testing team. But how much time is actually spent on test data management? In a recent webinar, more than half of the listeners polled say they spend between 30-40% of their effort on ‘data related tasks.’ (more…)
Enterprise Data Archiving Is White Hot
Informatica recently hosted a webinar on Enterprise Data Archiving Best Practices with guest speakers, Tony Baer from Ovum and Murali Rathnam from Symantec IT. With over 600 registrations, I would say that enterprise data archiving is not hot, it is white hot. At least for Informatica. With Big Data entering the data center, organizations are looking for ways to make room – either in the budget or in the data center itself. Archiving is a proven approach that achieves both. Given the complexities and interconnections of enterprise applications, Enterprise Data Archive solutions based on market leading technologies such as Informatica Data Archive, can deliver on the value proposition while meeting tough requirements. (more…)
Programmer Bob
Verizon recently blogged about one of its clients who caught an employee outsourcing his software development day job to China. While sitting at his computer working a normal day, he paid someone else to log into his computer using his physical RSA token which he FeExed to the contractor in Shenyang. He would spend the day surfing the internet while ironically, he was being recognized as the top programmer in the building.
Several media outlets have picked up on this story even going as far to say he is the ‘Tom Sawyer’ of the software developer community. An initial, common reaction to this story might make one chuckle. Not me. Think of how that single act of irresponsibility could bring an enterprise down or expose someone to identify theft. (more…)
Ballooning Data Sets Cause Application Performance Problems
According to a 2011 Ovum survey, 85% of respondents cited ballooning data sets as the cause of application performance problems. Many IT organizations fell short in 2012 letting unmanaged data growth impact the business. This year, Informatica is witnessing a surge of interest in Enterprise Data Archive solutions. This interest is being created because executives want to invest in innovative technologies for real-time and operational analytics. Yet, with little to no IT budget increase, IT leaders are getting creative.
Businesses are moving from on premises applications to Software as a Service (SaaS) freeing up time and resources – yet the legacy application being replaced all too often stays in the data center consuming costly resources. IT leaders are recognizing the quick win of retiring legacy applications. An application retirement strategy supports data center consolidation and application modernization initiatives – while ensuring data is retained to meet regulatory compliance and business needs. Significant cost savings are realized because mainframe systems can be turned off, maintenance costs go away. With this new source of revenue, executives can fund their analytics projects and drive competitive operations. (more…)
The Enterprise Data Archive For Hybrid IT
Data volumes are exploding. We see it all around us. The problem is that too much data can have a very negative impact on user productivity. Think about how long it takes to sift through emails after returning from vacation? Consider how long it takes to complete a purchase on an Ecommerce sight on Black Friday? The more data, the longer any of these processes take and the more time spent combing through more and more data. Informatica has been successfully working with Symantec and our customers through our partnership to help them find ways to control the impact of ‘too much data’. We are helping them to define projects that improve their ability to meet SLAs and application performance, reduce costs and mitigate any compliance risks – all while IT budgets remain relatively flat. (more…)
Informatica Named a Leader in Data Masking Gartner Magic Quadrant
Informatica was listed as a leader in the industry’s first Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Masking Technology. Finally, the data masking market gets a main stage role in one of the fastest growing enterprise software markets – data security. With the incredible explosion of data and the resulting number of places our personal information exists in the cybersphere, this confirmation is desperately needed as we enter into 2013. (more…)
Performance Archiving with Smart Partitioning at Oracle OpenWorld 2012
The Oracle Application User Group Archive and Purge Special Interest Group held its semi-annual meeting on Sunday September 30th at Oracle OpenWorld. Once again, this session was very well attended – but more so this year because of the expert panel which included: Admed Alomari – Founder of Cybermoor, Isam Alyousfi – Seniorr Director, Lead Oracle Applications Tuning Group, Sameer Barakat, Oracle Applications Tuning Group, and Ziyad Dahbour – now at Informatica (Founder of TierData, Founder of Outerbay). (more…)
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