Manage Data Growth While Controlling Costs
IT organizations in all kinds of companies and government organizations are struggling with the same problem: the explosion of data volumes. Data accumulates in various business applications, including CRM and ERP systems, such as Oracle e-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, and Siebel. The amount of data in large enterprise applications is estimated to grow by 50 percent annually.
But most of this data is inactive. For example, your IT team probably maintains a huge amount of data in seldom-used legacy applications. And it’s costing you a bundle.
When the size of a database increases, the time and effort required to perform database maintenance tasks—such as backup, recovery, replication, and upgrades—grows exponentially.
As the amount of data increases, the performance of your applications and databases decreases. They become harder to tune. Declining performance requires more CPUs, more storage, and more frequent software upgrades—and more costs.
Application performance degradation hurts everyone. Your end users suffer longer response times. Your IT staff struggles to meet service level agreements. And without reliable applications, the business lacks the agility to respond quickly to changes in the marketplace.
To comply with industry and government regulations, your IT organization must retain inactive data longer—sometimes more than 10 years—further increasing data volumes. To respond to audit requests, your IT team has to be able to access archived and current data and make it available to the business on demand.
How can you manage data growth in your production environment? How can you improve application performance, safely retire legacy applications, and support regulatory compliance? And how can you minimize IT costs?
Informatica can help.
Archive Data to Increase Application Performance and Reduce IT Costs
Informatica Data Archive is highly scalable, high-performance software that helps IT organizations cost-effectively manage the proliferation of data volumes in a range of enterprise business applications. The software enables IT teams to safely and easily archive application data—including master, reference, and transactional data—and then readily access it when needed.
With Informatica Data Archive, IT organizations can identify and move inactive data to another on-line database or to a secure, highly compressed file. Application-specific business rules enable IT teams to maintain data integrity after it has been archived.
By reducing the size of the production instance, Informatica Data Archive makes backup, recovery, and upgrades faster and easier. By retiring legacy applications and archiving the data within them, IT organizations can save on management, software, and hardware costs.
Informatica Data Archive is ideal for:
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“Informatica Data Archive lowers IKON’s storage and database costs, improves performance, and ensures we meet the needs of the business. Thanks to Informatica, we’re an anonymous hero here in IT.”
- Anil Roy
Director of Oracle Operations and Support, IKON Solutions, Inc. | |