Solix EDMS Database Archiving can archive enterprise applications like Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft , JD Edwards, Siebel, BaaN, and any custom applications developed on heterogeneous databases.

1. SOLIX EDMS DATABASE ARCHIVING
Information Lifecycle Management with Solix EDMS Database Archiving:
Improve Application Performance
Data Explosion in Database Applications
Features
Over time large enterprise applications such as CRM, ERP and corporate financials accumulate
• Classifies and tiers structured data,
large amounts of data, including a growing number of records of older transactions and
historical information that are no longer used. This historical data, which may go back increasing operational efficiencies.
several years, becomes an anchor, using up an increasing amount of system resources, • Supports customized or custom
eventually requiring expensive upgrades to both the storage and the server running the developed applications, extending,
application while dragging performance down. But because of the difficulty of identifying replacing, or rebuilding application
and removing this old data, and the need to preserve it for compliance audits and other archiving logic tailored to specific
business uses, many companies never purge their production databases. The problem is business practices.
compounded by the complexity of these data sets, which must be preserved in their full • Archives to a separate database or
context, including the links to other data throughout the database. This precludes a simple other archive stores, allowing you
backup-and-delete approach to removing this old data. to select the right option for your
needs.
Information Lifecycle Management • Maintains access and referential
integrity and ensures business
Database Application
Retirement
transactions are relocated in their
Archiving
entirety.
• Retains transparent end-user access
Data supported for both merge and
Governance archive view.
• Single installation supports
heterogeneous database,
Test Data Data applications and IT environments.
Management Masking
• Solix EDMS rich tool supports,
Integrated patch synchronization,
Application Testing Integrated space reclamation and
Unified control of all features and
Solix EDMS Database Archiving
processes through a single console
Solix EDMS Database Archiving is a key module in the Solix Enterprise Data Management • Support for different archive
Suite (EDMS). It provides data classification to identify scarcely accessed data that can platforms - Solix Secure Archive,
be moved to an active archive. It also provides the ability to access this data in the active Hitachi Content Platform (HCP),
archive online from the native application. Should there be a need to update read-only data
Oracle Universal Content
in the active archive, Solix EDMS Database Archiving gives you a de-archiving feature.
Management, EMC Centera, IBM
For the most historical data with in the active archive that needs to be retained only for DR550, File Systems and Content
compliance reasons, the Solix EDMS Grand Archive feature allows such data to be moved Management Repository
to a user-defined archiving destination, such as the massively compressed Solix Secure
Archive, File formats such as XML/CSV/PDF.
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2. SOLIX EDMS DATABASE ARCHIVING
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Active Data Semi-Active Data InActive Data
Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3
Tape/CAS
DataWarehouse Simultaneous
Access
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- Patch Synchronizer
Custom - Space Reclaimer - Search
Apps - Scheduler & CLI - De-Archive
- Data Compression - Data Compression
Production Database Archive Database Grand Archive
Benefits Supported Applications
Archiving improves application performance while lowering total cost • Oracle E-Business Suite
• PeopleSoft
• Trim production application databases by offloading inactive, less accessed data
• JD Edwards
• Remove inactive data from production and all copies to reduce disk and tape
• Siebel
requirements
• BaaN
• Tiered application data provides a baseline for tiering data protection and disaster
• DataWarehouse
recovery/business continuity services
• Custom Applications
Flexible architecture and robust feature set eases implementation
• Multiple options allow enterprises to deploy the right method for each application Supported Databases
• Single tool for managing standard and custom archiving reduces maintenance and • Oracle
overhead costs • IBM DB2
• Leverage existing investments with database technology and archiving platform • Microsoft SQL Server
Metadata-based approach separates business logic from technical implementation • MySQL
• As technologies change, retaining ILM policies at the metadata level eases underlying • Informix
infrastructure transitions • Other RDBMS with JDBC driver
• Leverage metadata for multiple projects beyond archiving, secure cloning, subsetting support
and application retirement
About SOLIX Technologies Supported Operating Systems
• HP-UX
SOLIX Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management solutions, helps
• IBM AIX
businesses to improve application performance, reduce storage costs, meet compliance
• IBM z/OS
and data privacy requirements by achieving Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) goals
and Data Governance strategies. Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS) • IBM i5/OS (OS/400)
software enables organizations to implement Database Archiving, Test Data Management • Oracle Solaris
(Data Subsetting), Data Masking and Application Retirement across all enterprise data. Solix • Linux
ExAPPS Appliance is an integrated set of Server, Storage and Software Components for • Microsoft Windows
Application Retirement all bundled into a single device. SOLIX has an extensive global client
base, including Fortune 500 companies, and is widely considered the standard for enterprise
data management. SOLIX Technologies is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and has
an established worldwide channel program of value added resellers (VARs) and systems
integrators.
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