Category Archives: Database Archiving
Enterprise Applications Myth #1: Apps and Data Live and Die Together
This is the first in a series debunking three common myths about enterprise applications and the data that drives them.
Myth: Enterprise applications and the data in them live and die together.
Fact: Applications and data have different lifecycles. Sometimes the life of the data is shorter than the application. Sometimes it is longer. Either way, the friction between the two raises the cost and complexity of sustaining your applications. To get this under control, you have to have a separate approach for managing the data vs. managing the application. (more…)
Addressing the Big Data Backup Challenge with Database Archiving
In a recent InformationWeek blog, “Big Data A Big Backup Challenge”, George Crump aptly pointed out the problems of backing up big data and outlined some best practices that should be applied to address them, including:
- Identifying which data can be re-derived and therefore doesn’t need to be backed up
- Eliminating redundancy, file de-duplication, and applying data compression
- Using storage tiering and the combination of online disk and tapes to reduce storage cost and optimize performance (more…)
The Future of Applications (2): Lowering Costs and Complexity
This is my second blog in a series on the subject of “Informatica & Applications”. You can read my previous blog here:
It’s strange how IT has become so complex. When we started out so many years ago computing was the answer to everything. It was going to make us more productive and was going to allow us to spend so much more time with our loved ones. Do you remember that time when people said “we’ll have a paperless office, and we’ll be finished by 5pm.”?
I wish!
Top 5 Benefits For Making Big Data Small
Lean Data Management is a new approach to managing your data growth. It uses the “Lean” concept that originated with Toyota car manufacturing in the 1990’s. The “Lean” concept is based on maximizing efficiency, eliminating waste and providing more value to the customer. (See Informatica’s lean integration solutions as well as John Schmidt’s 10Weeks to Lean Integration blog series.)
As technology has evolved, industries consolidated, and corporations have grown, these organizations are faced with explosive data volumes called “Big Data”. Big Data is all the different types of data that are supported by IT organizations. Applying the “Lean” concept to managing application data will help you reduce the size of your Big Data by archiving live production databases, subsetting non-production databases and archiving/retiring legacy and redundant applications. Informatica’s Lean Data Management approach to reducing Big Data is an effective, comprehensive approach to addressing the challenges created by Big Data. It’s time to Make Big Data Small with Lean Data Management.
Here are the top 5 benefits for Making Big Data Small: (more…)
Big Data Challenges And Opportunities In Financial Services
There is a Big Data movement happening across financial services. What is Big Data you may ask? ZDnet describes it in its simplest terms as a phrase that refers to the tools, processes and procedures allowing an organization to create, manipulate, and manage very large data sets and storage facilities. However, it is not just the volume of data … it is the velocity of data, the variety of data and the complexity of data. At Informatica, we define Big Data by recognizing the broad categories that represent the three major technology trends affecting enterprises today – namely “Big Transaction Data”, “Big Interaction Data” and “Big Data Processing”.
Companies are now dealing with petabytes of data (a petabyte is 1,000 terabytes or 100,000 gigabytes) fueled by a reviving economy, rise in electronic payments, growth in social media adoption, an increase in online banking adoption, a rise in mobile banking and proliferation in cloud computing to help companies gain a competitive edge while reducing their costs. Take a look at some of the headlines: (more…)
Business Intelligence Is Hot, And Here Are Four Reasons Why It Will Get Even Hotter
Gartner released some not-too-shabby data on the state of the business analytics market, showing that this is one hot space right now. Worldwide business intelligence (BI) platform, analytic applications and performance management software revenue reached $10.5 billion in 2010, a 13.4% increase over the year before, the consultancy says.
BI and analytics have been hot for a long time, and consistently outpace general IT growth – even during the recent recession, as the rest of the market went into a deep but brief slump. As Gartner analyst Dan Sommer put it: “BI spending has far surpassed IT budget growth overall for several years, and it is clear that BI continues to be a technology at the center of information-driven initiatives in organizations.”
Part of the reason for last year’s surge is pent-up demand from the recent downturn, he relates. But there’s plenty more to the story. (more…)
Informatica + Symantec = Shrink Big Data + Shrink Big Backups
Earlier this month, during the 2011 Symantec Vision Conference (Las Vegas, NV), Symantec and Informatica announced an exciting new partnership to help customers rein in data growth and ensure compliance across all enterprise data. Symantec will resell Informatica Data Archive, Informatica’s database archiving solution to Enterprise Vault and Netbackup customers. By combining database archiving with Symantec’s market leading data protection, email and file archiving solutions, customers can now implement a universal approach to data archiving that spans structured and unstructured data. (more…)
Cloud Data Integration For Hybrid IT
Today we made a significant announcement regarding our cloud strategy under the heading of “Cloud Data Integration for Hybrid IT”. Exciting! We sent out various official communications such as a press release, a list of partner quotes supporting the launch here, YouTube videos showing the new release in action and a link to a launch webinar on 5th May here. I wanted to give you my perspective on why I think this is such a big deal … (more…)
ROI Tool To Help Make The Business Case For Database Archiving, Application Retirement, Test Data Management, And Data Masking
Though the benefits of containing the size of your databases by archiving seems obvious in terms of saving costs and improving performance, quantifying those benefits in terms of dollar savings requires more thought. The same is true when it comes to the costs that can be eliminated by retiring redundant legacy applications. Some of the savings may come from hard dollar costs such as:
- Storage
- Backup devices
- Maintenance contracts
- Software licenses (more…)
Achieving IT Efficiency Through Consolidation And Legacy Application Retirement In Banking And Capital Markets
One of the top challenges among financial firms of all sizes is how to efficiently manage information within their organization in the face of explosive data growth. More and more data needs to be retained for a longer period to meet regulatory compliance. At the same time, they need to meet customer SLAs. The wave of mergers and acquisitions in the financial services industry leads to IT consolidations effort that leaves many legacy applications behind. The cost savings from IT consolidations would only be realized by retiring those legacy applications to eliminate the associated operational and maintenance costs. These legacy applications are kept around because the data needs to be retained for compliance.
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