How to Deal with Data Cholesterol in your Enterprise Systems
Cholesterol: Just as bad for enterprise systems
Data cholesterol is a condition in which the excessive buildup of data leads to sluggishness across your systems. Just as too much cholesterol in the human body can lead to serious health problems, data cholesterol hinders the function of enterprise systems. It causes slower response times for customer service requests and report queries. It prolongs testing and reporting. It can even expose your organization to needless litigation. Even mid-sized companies are amassing databases of over one terabyte that are growing at 30-70% each year.
Managing sprawling data costs
The painful combination of tighter IT budgets, data cholesterol buildup, and strict regulatory requirements has driven savvy companies to begin focusing on how they manage their data. That’s why they’re using the principles of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) as they implement their data governance functions. EDM focuses on making data accurate, consistent, and lean. This, in turn, makes it easy for you to deal with data growth risk management, data privacy compliance, test data management, e-discovery, and application upgrades, migrations, and retirements.
Curbing test data proliferation
Travelport, a leading provider of critical transaction processing solutions to companies operating in the global travel industry, recently faced an urgent need to reduce its data storage costs for its Oracle E-Business Suite applications hosted on Oracle On Demand. Because the company generated test data by making copies of production data, it was forced to store and manage tens of terabytes of superfluous data at accelerating cost to Travelport. Estuate helped Travelport implement IBM Optim Test Data Management Solution, which enables subsetting of production data to create efficient test databases. Read the full Travelport case study here.
Learn more about Enterprise Data Management from Marc Hebert, IBM Champion, at Estuate.com.
