Database growth, long-term data retention regulations and storage requirements increase operational costs. Yet, archiving complex relational data poses many challenges. Optim Data Growth Solution provides proven technology and comprehensive capabilities that make archiving complex relational data practical and desirable. »

Business-critical ERP applications, such as PeopleSoft Enterprise, represent an ongoing corporate investment, empowering new business initiatives, supporting daily operations and driving revenue generation. They also collect and accumulate a wealth of business information a valuable asset that must be managed and preserved throughout its lifecycle. Companies worldwide are affirming the value of database archiving as a best practice for managing application data growth. The basic principles for managing an archiving project presented in this paper can help you initiate and plan an archiving strategy that meets your organizations requirements. »

Business-critical CRM applications, such as Siebel® CRM, represent an ongoing corporate investment, empowering new business initiatives, supporting daily operations and driving revenue generation. They also collect and accumulate a wealth of business information a valuable asset that must be managed and preserved throughout its lifecycle. Companies worldwide are affirming the value of database archiving as a best practice for managing application data growth. The basic principles for managing an archiving project presented in this paper can help you initiate and plan an archiving strategy that meets your organizations requirements. »

Hotlist: IBM's Optim Data Growth Solution helps enterprises reduce risk by managing enterprise application data and enabling the development of an enterprise-wide data management strategy. »

Business-critical ERP applications, such as Oracle E-Business Suite, represent an ongoing corporate investment, empowering new business initiatives, supporting daily operations and driving revenue generation. They also collect and accumulate a wealth of business information a valuable asset that must be managed and preserved throughout its lifecycle. Companies worldwide are affirming the value of database archiving as a best practice for managing application data growth. The basic principles for managing an archiving project presented in this paper can help you initiate and plan an archiving strategy that meets your organizations requirements. »

Business-critical ERP applications, such as JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, represent an ongoing corporate investment, empowering new business initiatives, supporting daily operations and driving revenue generation. They also collect and accumulate a wealth of business information a valuable asset that must be managed and preserved throughout its lifecycle. Companies worldwide are affirming the value of database archiving as a best practice for managing application data growth. The basic principles for managing an archiving project presented in this paper can help you initiate and plan an archiving strategy that meets your organizations requirements. »

Making changes to database schemas can often be complex and error prone. Changes impact dependent objects and sometimes even the underlying data, and the stakes are high. Even with careful attention, schema changes can impact application systems, producing unexpected results, costly errors and business disruptions. By minimizing or eliminating manual tasks and automating the change management process, organizations can implement schema updates with ease and accuracy. This solution brief explains the value of IBM® Data Studio Administrator. This powerful and flexible tool simplifies the process of identifying, analyzing and implementing database schema changes for IBM DB2® for Linux®, UNIX® and Microsoft Windows®. Data Studio capabilities exploit modern development tools and techniques to provide for fast and efficient development and support a scalable infrastructure. »

In the midst of unprecedented security breaches, the best way to ensure that confidential information remains protected is to develop and implement a comprehensive privacy and security strategy. This white paper explains the steps you need to consider when developing your privacy strategy and implementing your first data privacy project. Find out how you can help your organization implement best practices in privacy protection and make your privacy project successful from start to finish. »

Hotlist: The IBM Optim Data Privacy Solution uses powerful data transformation capabilities to mask personal information and make it safe for use in application development, testing and training. »

Article: As storage vendors debate encryption key management, experts weigh in on steps you can take to protect your data now. »

This white paper provides insight into the requirements for protecting privacy in SAP non-production environments and describes some of the comprehensive data masking techniques available with the IBM® Optim Data Privacy Solution for SAP® Applications. »

Article: Tape has been declared dead as a technology for more than a decade, yet organizations of all sizes continue to rely on magnetic tape as a core piece of their data protection strategies. »

Article: If you plan your data protection, you will never have to do a bare metal disaster recovery again since virtual storage file systems are simple, single files. Recovering an entire system can be as simple as recovering a single file. »