Structured, Unstructured, Semi-Structured Data Archiving - Who Cares?
By Simon Taylor, Sr. Director of Information Access Management, CommVault
Well, we do.
By "we", I mean CommVault & Informatica. Recently, we unveiled a partnership that redefines what's truly possible with information lifecycle management. To put this into context (and in case you have not heard), database archiving is one of the fastest growing requirements in the data management world. This is fueled by the pressure of managing transaction data growth, application scalability and now the legal discovery of database information.
The trouble is that very few solutions have been able to properly address this. You could probably count on one hand all the structured (database) archiving solutions that have come and gone over the last few years largely because they don't archive, but rather sub-divide. Doesn't subdivision create even more complexity, duplication, and cost though? I'll let you decide.
On the other hand, Informatica has something different through a newly acquired solution from Applimation. They call it "Data Archive" for databases and associated enterprise resource management (ERM) applications that archives and moves data from databases. What's was missing, however, was a long-term archiving repository that complements its ILM solution set and a search and workflow discovery capability that addresses the need for business information access. Of course all this needs to be done at the most optimal cost given the current economic climate. Well, the waiting is over.
As you should know by now, CommVaut Simpana provides a truly unified solution for the archiving and data retention of email, files, and documents from a broad set of archive host targets with what we believe is the best dedupe technology available today. Couple this with the database extraction and archive capabilities of Informatica and you've got an integrated structured and unstructured/semi-structured data archiving solution that is available today.
To clarify what we mean by integration, the combined offering delivers a seamless Informatica process that passes data from the database to the CommVault Simpana long term archive repository, indexing and deduping it along the way using XML. It's also represented in Simpana in a way that reflects the original nature of the relationships between relevant database objects that shows up when you search for information. The result: organizations now can finally move data from legacy apps into a data retention repository that can organize data against flexible disposition polices, index the data for immediate eDiscovery, authenticate the data for legal defensibility and dedupe regardless of disk, tape and storage media. The best thing is that the solution can "flex" just in case you don't know what's coming and need to adapt the way you are managing your information. The world of unified data archiving just got even better!
SOURCE: CommVault Systems