HP cloud does application and database archiving
HP Autonomy has updated its information governance portfolio with HP Application Information Optimizer (AIO) 7.1, which introduces a cloud-based approach to managing legacy structured data, and offers additional connectivity to market-leading databases and greater ability to leverage HP Autonomy’s information processing engine, the Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL).
The typical organisation maintains hundreds to thousands of distributed applications and databases, each containing a mixture of active, “live” information, and inactive, unused data. While much of the software industry’s focus has been on bringing governance to unstructured, human information, gaining control of structured application and database data remains one of the biggest challenges and opportunities for organizations of all sizes.
Failure to proactively understand and manage this information bloat leads to unnecessarily high data-storage and database-maintenance costs, increased compliance and litigation risk, and untapped potential in leveraging the data for improved business performance.
HP AIO enables organisations to overcome these challenges and convert their application and database data liabilities into information assets. The solution accesses, understands, classifies and relocates outdated and inactive structured data from production databases and legacy applications, and moves this information into lower-cost data repositories, where it can be managed, applied in other applications or defensibly deleted.
The solution enables organizations to pursue a phased, hybrid approach to governing their data. Organisations can use HP AIO to identify and move data to on-premises archiving and records management systems for analysis and long-term management.
HP AIO 7.1 also can run on any cloud server, such as HP Cloud Services, and supports both public and private cloud applications. As a result, organizations can embrace a move to the cloud at their own pace, and in alignment with a larger information governance strategy.
HP AIO 7.1 also includes new capabilities for greater connectivity and intelligent understanding and processing of database and application information:
It now can search and extract data from IBM DB2 databases and creates a transparency layer by allowing application access to the combined data from the source and archive IBM DB2 databases.
HP AIO harnesses Autonomy IDOL to enable users to perform enterprise searches for data within all production and archive databases across their hybrid landscape.
HP says it allows customers to dramatically reduce their storage footprint, minimise backup costs, retire old databases and applications, and ensure data is managed with the same policies and rigour as its “live” data. The solution reduces storage costs by up to 48 percent and reduces backup time by up to 50 percent, according to the company.
The solution is acomponent of HP’s information governance portfolio. In June, HP Autonomy announced Legacy Data Cleanup, a new solution that helps organisations govern and defensibly dispose of outdated and unnecessary unstructured data.
Autonomy Legacy Data Cleanup, combined with HP AIO, offers organisations a complete solution for governing their entire legacy data environment, from unstructured to structured information.
“While cloud-based computing and storage is a growing trend, the reality is that customers are often reluctant to make the switch for fear of losing control of data and risking the security of sensitive company information,” said Mike Sullivan, general manager, Protect Enterprise, HP Autonomy.
“AIO 7.1 directly addresses this customer anxiety by allowing them to explore the transition into cloud-based storage at their own pace, moving data across environments piece by piece at a comfortable pace.”