Applimation Leads Market Share in Packaged Applications for Database Archiving.More Organizations Seek Application Data Management Solutions for Information Lifecycle Management Information Lifecycle Management refers to a wide-ranging set of strategies for administering storage systems on computing devices. Specifically, four categories of storage strategies may be considered under the auspices of ILM. Projects CHICAGO -- Applimation, Inc., an independent provider of enterprise data management solutions for packaged and custom applications, today announced it has been recently assessed as having the largest share, more than 33 percent, in packaged applications for database archiving based on number of customers for 2007 by Gartner, Inc. in a research report released October 13, 2008, titled "Database-Archiving Products Are Gaining Market Traction Traction Definition Traction is the use of a pulling force to treat muscle and skeleton disorders. Purpose Traction is usually applied to the arms and legs, the neck, the backbone, or the pelvis. ." Written by Carolyn DiCenzo, the report observes a growing interest among organizations in database archiving applications for their information lifecycle management projects and provides an overview of current market behaviors and vendors. Key report findings include: * "Database archiving significantly lowers storage costs for primary storage by moving older data to less-costly storage." * "It isn't necessary to have a terabyte-size database application to benefit from archiving. Performance and cost improvements can be sizable siz·a·ble also size·a·ble adj. Of considerable size; fairly large. siz  a·ble·ness n. , even with applications that have less than 200 GB of
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The report also offers recommendations for companies that wish to implement a database archiving solution: * "Every application should have a retention policy that includes when to delete To remove an item of data from a file or to remove a file from the disk. See file wipe, trash and undelete. 1. (operating system) delete - (Or "erase") To make a file inaccessible. the data. When data is being kept long term, there should be a plan to archive older data. Examine the database-archiving solutions that are available on the market, and determine how these solutions can accelerate the deployment of archiving." * "Find one application or module that is experiencing performance or backup problems, and use it as your first archiving project. Success with this project (and with the selected vendor) can be used to convince other application owners to implement archiving." Bob Markese, Chief Executive Officer for Applimation, says the research report accurately portrays the business challenge Applimation has observed over the past few years - the traditional tendency of organizations to simply purchase additional, and costly, storage hardware versus taking proactive, long-term measures that increase overall efficiency and effectively manage the footprint The amount of geographic space covered by an object. A computer footprint is the desk or floor surface it occupies. A satellite's footprint is the earth area covered by its downlink. See form factor. 1. of enterprise application data. Markese says that the company's satisfied customer base indicates that the report is accurate - attitudes are changing and data archiving is a worthwhile expenditure. "Today, IT departments everywhere are stretching their budgets and trying to save on critical resources," explains Markese. "Increasingly, many are answering that challenge by choosing proactive, long-term solutions for their packaged applications, such as Informia Archive. Everyday, more organizations are coming to us, actively seeking smarter, cost-effective methods for managing their data stores, rather than simply throwing money at storage hardware that really only solves the problem in the short-run." Applimation's Informia Archive lowers infrastructure and maintenance costs, streamlines application upgrade processes and helps meet regulatory requirements Regulatory requirements are part of the process of drug discovery and drug development. Regulatory requirements describe what is necessary for a new drug to be approved for marketing in any particular country. by identifying inactive in·ac·tive adj. 1. Not active or tending to be active. 2. a. Not functioning or operating; out of use: inactive machinery. b. data and archiving it in online data stores made available for seamless access through its user interface. Organizations that implement Informia Archive are able to improve the performance of their production environments, retire data with encapsulated encapsulated Localized Oncology adjective Confined to a specific area, surrounded by a thin layer of fibrous tissue; encapsulation generally refers to a tumor confined to a specific area, surrounded by a capsule. See Islet encapsulation. XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. objects to meet long-term data retention for compliance, and successfully retire legacy applications while maintaining data integrity. Informia Archive is a part of Applimation's enterprise database management solutions for Oracle[R], SAP[R], Siebel[R], PeopleSoft[R], custom and third-party applications. The Informia suite enables efficient data archiving, data provisioning, data security, application retirement and divestitures. More information about Applimation's solutions is available at (800) 995-8425 or at www.applimation.com. About Applimation Applimation is a leading independent provider of enterprise data management solutions for packaged and custom applications across multiple database platforms. The Applimation Informia[TM] solution enables organizations to manage the growth of structured and unstructured data Data that does not reside in fixed locations. Free-form text in a word processing document is a typical example. Contrast with structured data. See free-form database. to achieve Information Lifecycle Management objectives, improve operational efficiency, reduce total cost of ownership and meet compliance requirements Compliance requirements are a series of directives established by United States Federal government agencies that summarize hundreds of Federal laws and regulations applicable to Federal assistance (also known as Federal aid or Federal funds). . For more information, visit www.applimation.com. SAP and all SAP logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG (company) SAP AG - (Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung - German for "Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing") A company from Germany that sells the leading suite of client-server business software. The US branch is called SAP America. in Germany and in several other countries. All other product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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