Database Archiving Solution

Reduce Database Bloat, Improve Storage Efficiency and Application Response Time

The majority of any company’s information originates in a database. Most core business applications — financial, human resources or manufacturing — use a database such as Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server. Over a period of time, these applications populate the databases with every transaction created, causing the databases to get bigger and bigger. Eventually, performance diminishes as the database grows too large, the data becomes less useful and costs escalate.

There are justifications for keeping the database information on primary storage, however each can be costly and inefficient, as explained here:

• Keeping the production database “intact” causes the application it serves to run less efficiently because it is loading a much larger set of files than is needed. As a result, responses and queries are slower; updates take too long; and the application performs sluggishly.

• Retaining data “just in case” might appear like the right approach for compliance issues, but it’s very expensive. This is because that data is retained on primary storage, the most expensive tier in a data center. As is well known, data growth is rampant. Keeping static/stale data on the most expensive storage in the IT infrastructure is not a smart use of scarce IT budget dollars.

• Inertia is just another way of saying “I don’t have an answer so I’ll keep doing what I’ve done before, because it’s easier.” Again, this is costly and inefficient, especially in today’s IT budget–constrained climate.

The Permabit Enterprise Archive™ provides an alternative that will save valuable primary storage space and lower associated costs. Additionally, it will enable you to efficiently manage information over the long term while protecting the data with patented data protection techniques that can scale to the multiple–petabyte level, meeting growth and expansion needs.

Permabit Solution:

Permabit Enterprise Archive Dedupe 2.0 data storage solution delivers the answer to your database archiving needs by managing the information within a single multipurpose system that optimizes costs and resources. Using the Permabit Enterprise Archive as your target from the database will improve overall efficiency and application response, while delivering more efficient queries. In addition, Permabit will positively impact your IT budget, reduce resource costs (human and technical), and protect corporate data better than primary storage.

The Permabit Enterprise Archive offers:

• Cost Savings — Using Permabit’s built–in SDR, offers effective cost of less than $1 per gigabyte – lower than any other disk–based archive solution in the industry.

• Massive Scalability — Up to petabytes of raw storage that seamlessly grows as your need for more storage expands.

• WORM Retention — Integrated into the Permabit solution, provides a flexible, powerful way to lock down data to insure immutability and deliver chain–of–custody proof with content certificates.

• Flexible Encryption Policies — Retention periods can be uniquely specified or policy driven based on file type, origin or application.

• High Availability — To ensure you always have access to archived data.

• Intellegent Recovery™ — Leveraging patented RAIN–EC technology that is more effective than RAID.

• Replication — For further protection of data locally or in remote sites.

• Health Monitoring — To anticipate faults and proactively manage solutions in advance of failure.