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Improving Application Performance

The Recipe for Data

Management

A Data Management Business Brief

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How
is Data
Like a
Rabbit?
It starts small and soon more cumbersome. Most estimates Data needs Management
peg data growth as doubling Data is the life blood of any
there are enterprise every other year with 80% of the organization, but too much data
applications all over the data in the enterprise application can slow application and reporting
place. being inactive or of little value to performance and tax IT resources.
the organization. This volume of Utilizing data management tools
ERP, SCM, PLM are just a few of inactive data contributes greatly to actively manage the growth of
the enterprise application systems to poor application and reporting application data is key to managing
that you have installed over the performance, resulting in high data for its value to the organization.
past several years to enhance storage costs and unacceptable
customer relationships, streamline burden on applications and reporting
operations and meet compliance functions.
requirements. As new modules
come online, upgrade cycles occur
and data is collected from multiple
modules simultaneously, the size
of the database grows larger and

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Keep It All
Modern databases can retain huge
amounts of transactional data but
huge databases take armies to manage
back-up, QA and recovery processes.
Periodically purging data to improve
performance and manageability is
a necessary but risky maintenance
step for any DBA. It is the database
equivalent of the Dead Man’s Curve.
Once data is purged from the
database, it is gone, never to be seen
or reported on again from the native
application. To maintain access,
IT organizations must build and
maintain separate reporting systems
and educate users on where data
resides.
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Business, eDiscovery and
regulatory requirements are forcing
organizations to not only retain data,
but retain it in accessible data stores
and produce it on demand in the
same format as the original use. The
inability to find and produce records
is not a not an acceptable option for
business or legal users. Companies
must take into account all aspects
of data: retention, maintenance,
accessibility, performance to
understand the total cost of
ownership. Organizations that
develop an economic use model for
its enterprise data, from active, to less
active, historical and finally archive
data that utilize tools and techniques
to manage data in the most efficient
container will achieve the greatest
return on their data infrastructure
investment.
View It All
Enterprise data management takes
into account the value of data and
automates the processes of moving
data from production to archive as
a scheduled, policy-driven process,
eliminating the risk in running purge
routines while maintaining access
through the native application.
Organizations can realize savings
in storage, increased performance
and lower maintenance costs while
providing seamless access to data for
all users.
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Those
Darn
Rabbits
Again sizes and need for test copies is Data Predators
not helping to alleviate the storage
It’s not just the problem. Holding the line on new
Cloning is usually done as a back-up
process, making a full size copy of
production system storage purchases will only serve the application and all data in the
that’s multiplying. Test to negatively impact the business system. Not only in this an inefficient
by limiting test and development
and Production really productivity.
and resource intensive process, but it
exposes the organization to internal
crowds the hutch and external predators.
Additionally, the test and production
Size Matters process is laborious with a variety Private and confidential customer
Unlike email or content management
of manual steps including restoring and company data is locked in
systems, databases require copies for
from tape or making full size clones production systems; credit card data,
testing, QA, stand-by, development,
for every test and development copy. social security numbers, financial,
and more. As the production
Either way, manually making clones HR data and customer lists are just
database grows, so do all the test and
is an inefficient process for a routine a few of the fields that need to be
development copies. Organizations
activity in the data center. secured. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley
typically make 8 full size clones
Act and HIPAA are just the latest in
for every production system and
a long line of privacy regulations that
have an average of 6 applications in
will directly impact organizations
production at any given time. (8 x
that fail to secure their corporate
6 = 48 copies!) For even modestly
data. Gartner estimates 70% of
sized production systems, the
data theft comes from internal
storage requirements to support
resources and are responsible for
QA, development, test, stand-by,
95% of financial loss. Organizations
and disaster recovery can tax storage
that ignore the need to secure data
and IT resources. Additionally,
from internal and external threats
many organizations are working
do at their own peril, taking legal,
hard to hold the line on new storage
regulatory and reputational risks.
purchases. The growing database

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Recipe for Data Management
Data is messy
It grows, it multiples, and it is hard
to manage. Business users want
to maintain access and IT needs
to support their customers while
holding the line on costs. Letting
data grow without regard to value is
not a viable strategy going forward.
The acceleration of data growth over
time further decreases application
and reporting performance, putting
more pressure on IT resources and
budgets.
Data (Management)
Solix Enterprise Data Management
Suite (Solix EDMS) provides
the recipe for managing your
data holistically, accounting for
compliance, cost, and security.
With quantifiable improvement
across the enterprise, organizations
reduce risk, lower costs, and improve
performance and operational
efficiencies.
Enterprise Archiving
With Solix Enterprise Archiving
solution, 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,
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reduced labor costs and lower
infrastructure requirements. The
solution offers organizations the
ability to classify data based on its
business value and regulatory impact
for tiered storage and information
security and improve peak
performance of critical applications
by off loading historical or inactive
data while maintaining transparent
access to archived data from the
native application
Secure Test and Development
Solix Secure Test and Development
provides database cloning, subsetting
and data masking to allow
organizations to protect data in
non-production environments while
reducing infrastructure costs and
improving development cycles.
With the Solix, organizations have
multiple options for creating clones
and database subsets that secure the
data before it is released to DBA’s
and Developers. Confidential data
is protected, development time is
reduced and non-production copies
are smaller and require less storage
space. In every case, the transactional
relational integrity is maintained
ensuring accuracy of test and
development efforts
Data Security
With Solix, IT can secure data before
it is copied over to a non-production
eliminating the risk of data exposure
and unauthorized access. Employing
multiple methods to mask sensitive
data, organizations can secure their
sensitive data from internal and
external threats in non-production
environments. Securing sensitive
data in database environments is only
one piece of the compliance puzzle.
Ensuring that you are alerted when
unusual activity is occurring and
keeping a secure and searchable audit
log of database changes.
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Customer Stories
Forbes Marshall
Forbes Marshall builds steam engineering and control
instrumentation solutions that work for the process
manufacturing industry.
Challenges
• Data volume was increasing rapidly from implementing
multiple Oracle 11i modules.
• The large size data size was affecting database
performance and storage optimization.
• Needed to subset production database for test and
development without hampering performance and
security.
• Required a solution to archive and purge data from
production system.
Result
• Achieved 40% reduction in size of Test and
Development database through subsetting.
• Doubled performance in Test and Development
instance.
• 25% reduction in space occupied in data file resizing.
• 20% reduction in backup time.
• Increased overall application performance and reduced
storage requirements for production and test and
development.
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Helen of Troy Limited
Helen of Troy has established a leadership position in
the personal care products market through new product
innovation, superior product quality and competitive
pricing. Their products include household names such as
Brut, OXO, Revlon, Vidal Sassoon, and Dr. Scholls.
Challenges
• The companies expansion via mergers and acquisitions
creating spikes in data growth
• Slowed system performance was creating increased query
times of critical reporting for supply chain management
• Performance tuning wasn’t providing enough
improvement to system performance and growth in
database tables increased risk of data corruption
• Backups cycles were taking longer in a 24x7 operation
that couldn’t afford downtimes
Results
• Reduced time to run supply chain reports by 20%
• Improved online and background processing by 30%
• Predictable system management processes
• Deferred storage and CPU capital expenditures
• Automated archive routines
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