Automated storage provider CommVault on Dec. 14 entered into a
partnership with database integration specialist Informatica to
produce a new archiving package for large data sets that enables
support for a number of top-tier enterprise databases and CRM or ERP
applications.
Those database and enterprise applications include Microsoft SQL
Server, Oracle, DB2, SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel and other custom or legacy
applications, CommVault said.
CommVault has built its reputation on handling unstructured data.
Informatica is well known for handling structured data with scalable
enterprise control for archiving unconnected business applications.
The new partnership will enable CommVault's Simpana software to archive
large databases from mission-critical business applications using
Informatica's data integration software. The idea is to better
streamline e-discovery tasks and improve database space management,
CommVault said.
The Simpana software -- which won an eWEEK Software Excellence award in
2008 -- helps reduce the size of large databases by weeding out
unnecessary or repetitive data blocks, which nearly always results in
improved application performance.
Smaller, more efficient data stores also minimize the time and costs in
performing daily or weekly backup, e-discovery, and replication duties
as well as routine application upgrades.
According to a recent study published by Enterprise Strategy Group,
nearly half of IT managers surveyed said they have been asked to
produce information that resides in databases as part of a legal or
regulatory e-discovery inquiry.
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