DCIG: Solix ExAPPS Brings New Relief to Application Retirement Anxiety
People may come and go but applications live forever. Well, not exactly, but that mindset leads to the application retirement problems that many organizations face today. Often applications remain intact and running on corporate networks long after their useful life is over but gracefully shutting them down is no simple matter. However the recently released Solix ExAPPS appliance provides organizations a new option for retiring these applications while alleviating the uncertainty normally associated with such decisions.
 
The benefits of shutting down aging or unused applications are easy to see but as anyone knows who has ever been asked to turn such an application off – you hate to be the one responsible for pushing the button only to have someone request the application data later on. The Solix ExAPPS takes these concerns about application retirement off the table.
 

Simplifying Enterprise Application Retirement with Solix ExAPPS – Industry's first Application Retirement Appliance
Gartner says that “On average 10% of the applications in an unoptimized portfolio are candidates for retirement. And additional one-third can require migration or rationalization.”

Enterprises are looking to (i) significantly cut costs by retiring legacy hardware, eliminating maintenance and support costs, reducing administrative costs (ii) consolidate applications resulting from mergers and acquisitions, application standardization and enterprise application upgrades and (iii) meet regulatory compliance requirements such as data retention, e-discovery requests and warranty fulfillments.

All the above business drivers are demanding a need for application portfolio management in enterprises. Solix ExAPPS provides a systematic approach to application retirement that allows enterprises to identify data based on data retrieval service level requirements, migrate the data to an archive that best meets the access requirements and preserve the application context. On top of this, Solix ExAPPS Application Retirement appliance provides a better management of legacy data where enterprises benefit from significant reduction in storage costs, meet compliance requirements and leverage existing IT infrastructure in enterprises.
 

Database Archiving: The Key to Siebel Performance

This White Paper briefly examines the reasons why organization should archive data and details how one solution, Solix Technologies’ Enterprise Data Management Suite (EDMS), has helped customers improve application performance while maintaining information access
 

Application Retirement - Road Map for Legacy Applications

Technologies like the advent of the Internet are game changing events for enterprises that can force a whole new way of information access and delivery. Even so, new technologies and applications are constantly forcing their way into organizations through mergers, acquisitions or organic technology purchasing, potentially diminishing or forcing out once core applications. Application Retirement is a strategy to remove legacy applications from use while retaining access to the useful data contained in the legacy application. This paper examines drivers, considerations, challenges and opportunities in retiring legacy applications while maintaining the data access needed for compliance and business continuity.
 

Go Green to Save Green - Embracing Green Energy Practices

Green is not just media/technology Hype. IT organizations are in the unique position of being able to help their organizations reduce their carbon footprint, reduce energy consumption and drive cost out of the data center. With energy exceeding historical levels, energy consumption and cost are going to be important issues for IT management.  This paper examines the costs and strategies that can be deployed to reduce Tier 1 storage in production and reduce the overall storage and servers required for data management.
 

Recipe for Data Management
Business applications capture nearly all the critical history of a corporation, from key financials to details on products, services, and employees. These critical applications are what drive business performance. Sluggish performance, cumbersome patch and upgrade cycles that affect the ability of the organization to deliver shareholder value are not acceptable in results driven organizations. Enterprise data management can help to streamline application performance by moving under-utilized data out of production systems into more cost efficient storage, increasing performance, lowering costs and risk.
 
The Recipe for Data Management is a high level look at the issues facing growing organizations and how enterprise data management, data archiving, and secure test and development solutions can ensure business performance and keep sensitive customer and company data out of the hands of unauthorized users.
 

Case Studies in Improving Application Performance With Solix Database Archiving Solutions - Enterprise Strategy Group, November 2007
Many organizations run their businesses on Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft. These software packages generate vital business information and any disruption or delay in application access can be very costly. End-of-month financial closings, inventory
reporting and manufacturing processes are often built around these systems—making any performance or availability issues a priority for senior IT and business managers.

One of the biggest risks to information access is poor application response time, and one of the causes of poor response time is the size of the underlying application databases. In some Oracle E-Business Suite modules such as General Ledger, there can be several thousand transactions added to a database in a day.
 
This paper briefly examines the reasons why organization should archive data and details how one solution, Solix Technologies’ Enterprise Data Management Suite (EDMS), has helped customers improve application performance while maintaining information access.
 

A New Frontier in Securing Sensitive Information
Taneja Group, April 2007
Sensitive Information is increasingly finding its way into the hands of malicious individuals either   through  external   breaches or  insider thefts from employees or contractors. Database applications, like ERP and CRM, house vast repositories of sensitive and private
information which may be exposed in your test and development environments. These environments not only house critical data that pose security risks, but also require hefty manual procedures to create and maintain and consume heavy amounts of storage.
 
 

Facilitating Compliance and Intelligent Information Management with Effective Database Management - Enterprise Strategy Group, March 2007
Databases are the underpinning of the digital economy. Organizations store massive amounts of data ranging   from credit card transactions to product inventories inside database tables and
the various rows and columns feed enterprise applications. Without this information, supply chains would not operate, payrolls would not be met, and many web sites would be empty. In essence, databases store the information that run businesses, and they are also essential in helping us organize the vast amount of digital data that is created on a regular basis. Now, more than ever, databases and associated applications should cause senior IT leaders to invest in technology that can help control peripheral costs and reduce risks created by inefficient and sometimes risky database information management processes.
 

Extending Information Security to Non-Production Environments

With the recent provisions in the Federal Rules for Civil Procedure (FRCP), many companies are now in reaction mode investigating means for compliance. Several IT professionals have recently received mandates from superiors to implement plans immediately to ensure compliance. These news provisions in federal legislation have created many challenges for IT departments that manage electronic information.

For structured data, the problem is even more challenging when considering current database management practices. For every production database application, multiple copies exist for production testing, training, support and development. In many cases these copies do not have the same security controls as the production environment. If the production copy contains sensitive data, so do all the copies, posing a greater risk of insider theft or tampering of sensitive information.

This paper discusses the threats that non-production environments pose to database security and provides practical advice and multiple options for ensuring data assets remain secure against unauthorized access.
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