Market Leading Logistics Company Outsourcing application development and testing for Linux upgrade exposed sensitive data. Solix provided a secure solution that could help them reduce the associated costs and time it would take to develop and test their application environment.
 
Solix Technologies Solutions: Solix Secure Test and Development
 
 

The Challenge

  

The Result
  • Solaris to IBM AIX upgrade and deployment of fiber SAN required 9 support instances for testing & dev in an outsourced data center

  • Limited storage space required smaller subsets

  • Needed a system that could create a subset directly from production to target to meet reduced storage needs

  • Cloning times were taking over 11 days and required a lot of manual intervention and scheduling

  • Significant risk involved in cloning sensitive HR data
  • Needed an automated system that could run in <1 day with ability to refresh training instance
  • Eliminated risk by masking sensitive HR data before releasing to test and dev resources

  • Reduced cloning time from 11 days to less than 11 hours

  • Reduced storage requirements by 50% which equated to 1TB in storage savings

  • Admin time and cost significantly reduced

  • Clones can be created on demand when needed and reduced skill level required to clone
  • With 50% reduction in storage for each clone, more support instances can be created in same limited footprint

  • Extended data management strategy leveraging same metadata model and added Archiving in Phase 2
 
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