EMC Corporation is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information.

Challenges

  • Reduce management, software and hardware costs of legacy data
  • Manage data growth arising from acquired businesses
  • Optimize performance of the application infrastructure
Informatica Data Archive is a best-of-breed technology that has not only helped us drive down total cost of ownership but improve performance of mission critical assets, resulting in significant improvement in customer satisfaction.
— Ramesh Razdan
senior director of enterprise technology services
EMC Corporation
By Standardizing on Informatica Application Retirement Solution, EMC saves $1 Million

EMC Saves $3 Million Annually with Informatica Data Archive Solution for Live Archiving

Results

  • Save $3 million every year by improving application performance
  • Deliver total return on investment within 6 months
  • Cut planned maintenance downtime by 20 percent
  • Reduced number of DBA performance tuning staff from 5 to 2 (by 60%)
  • Increased Oracle application performance by 50 percent
  • Relocated inactive Oracle E-Business Suite application data while maintaining data integrity and providing seamless access
  • Forecast to save $820,000 annually using Informatica Data Subset
  • Anticipates saving $1 million using Informatica Data Archive for application retirement, equivalent to complete payback in 6 months

Technologies Used