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IBM Optim Suite: Powerful Products for Managing Enterprise Data (September 2011) |
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One of the most exciting sets of products we have had the pleasure of working with lately is the IBM Optim Suite of data management products. Optim products enable a client to better manage their databases, increase application performance, reduce IT infrastructure costs, and ensure compliance with industry standards while avoiding costly data privacy breaches. |
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| There are four Optim products that are very valuable for our clients: |
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The Optim Data Growth Solution mitigates the adverse impact of rapid data growth by safely archiving historical data to a secure archive. The archive can then be maintained as a database or as a compressed file, and stored on any hardware device. Organizations have universal access to the archives, supporting retention compliance initiatives. Archiving seldom-used or historical data streamlines processing workloads, resulting in improved application performance and lower overall storage costs. Archiving prior to an application upgrade reduces the amount of data to be migrated, thereby reducing downtime and enabling timely project completion. Archiving also allows companies to safely retire legacy or unsupported applications while preserving their underlying data records.
The Optim Test Data Management Solution enables companies to speed the deployment of new or upgraded applications, ultimately accelerating revenue generation. By extracting a precise subset of application data records, companies create targeted, right-sized test databases faster and more easily than by cloning entire production copies. With less data to process, iterative testing cycles are completed more quickly, while testers improve quality by identifying and fixing bugs in the earliest stages of development.
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The Optim Data Privacy Solution offers contextual, application-aware, persistent masking techniques to protect confidential data. By substituting realistic but fictionalized data for private information, Optim creates a protected test database which QA staff can utilize to generate accurate test results while supporting compliance with privacy mandates such as HIPAA, GLBA, PCI and the EU Directive on Data Protection.
The Optim Application Retirement Solution addresses one of the biggest challenges when consolidating and/or retiring applications -- what to do with the data. Moving all of the data into the consolidated application will cause performance issues, may not all be appropriate in the new context, and could grow data to be too large. But for business, governance and regulatory reasons, it must be kept. The only other option is to keep the application alive, but that presents an entirely new set of issues and doesn’t let the organization retire the application as they would like. The Optim Application Retirement Solution provides access to the data without relying on the cost of database software or servers, and doesn’t rely on the application to access it. |
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| All of these products can be used with data on all IBM hardware platforms, as well as hardware from HP and Sun. They can also be used with any vendor’s database and any type of storage device. |
| For more information about IBM Optim products, please contact your Sirius client executive. |
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