Infrastructure Services

An enterprise approach to data integration requires a platform that can scale and deliver mission-critical reliability and performance. The Informatica platform features infrastructure services, such as high availability, grid-based scalability, multi-level security, and unparalleled optimization, to enable enterprise-scale deployments.

Components and Benefits

High Availability. The Informatica platform delivers seamless failover and automated recovery capabilities to ensure that data integration services are always available to consuming applications. With no single point of failure, the platform is resilient to environmental failures including outages of underlying software or hardware components. Organizations can deploy mission-critical data integration solutions while avoiding the risk of system downtime.

Heterogeneous Enterprise Grid. The Informatica platform can be deployed in a highly scalable heterogeneous grid environment with data integration services configured to scale across several CPUs and physical servers. As IT organizations turn to low-cost blades and grid infrastructures, the Informatica platform? grid capabilities ensure that data integration projects can be deployed across these horizontally-scaled hardware configurations efficiently to deliver optimum price-performance. With support for dynamic load balancing, the platform ensures the highest possible CPU utilization irrespective of runtime changes in data volumes and node utilization.

Multi-level Security. The Informatica platform provides multi-level security to guarantee that only the right people and processes are allowed to access enterprise data. The platform supports authentication and role-based access to protect data from unauthorized access. It also supports encryption to guarantee that data is secure as it travels between physically distributed data sources throughout the enterprise and across corporate firewalls to partner organizations.

Unparalleled Performance and Optimization. The Informatica platform consists of a single, unified architecture that has been shown to effectively handle everything from the smallest of data streams to multi-terabyte-sized data volumes in enterprise environments and in published industry benchmarks. The architecture enables data transformation processing, where appropriate, to be ?ushed down?into any relational database to optimize the use of existing database assets.

Product Literature

PowerCenter Brochure
High Availability White Paper
Grid Computing White Paper