Premiere CosmosTM report provides data archiving insight and guidelines for technology buyers
Report highlights compliance and performance issues driving solution choices in data archiving efforts
Four vendors evaluated against rigorous criteria and practical use cases
SAN FRANCISCO – October 31, 2012 Constellation Research, Inc., the award-winning research and advisory firm focused on disruptive technologies, announced the publication of "Constellation’s Cosmos TM: Data Archiving Solutions", a new research report authored by Vice President and Principal Analyst, Alea Fairchild. Constellation CosmosTM is Constellation Research’s flagship quantitative and qualitative product and solution comparison tool. A typical CosmosTM contains 50 to 150 exception-based criteria, making CosmosTM a powerful tool for buy-side clients navigating the ever-crowded technology market. This report evaluates the data archiving solution offerings from four data archiving vendors: HP, IBM, Informatica and Solix.
This Constellation CosmosTM contains:
- 6 significant trends in data archiving, and comparison of vendors’ presence in these six areas
- Evaluation of solutions in four real-world use cases
- Recommendations for technology buyers evaluating data archiving solutions
This report rates the aforementioned data archiving solution offerings on the basis of six criteria segments including market execution and user experiences, as well as solution criteria and vendor resources. Commenting on the findings of the research Fairchild said, “We noted a very close race, where the focus has changed from more technical criteria to better data planning via data usage and growth analysis, simulation of archive policies, including preview of data prior to archiving and purging, and process management via a centralized view across multiple applications, databases and operating systems."
New compliance and performance realities drive demand for data archiving solutions
Constellation Research, Inc. produced this piece of research to serve clients as compliance and performance requirements necessitate improved data archiving performance. Data archiving has changed dramatically in the last three years, as explosive data growth and the maturity of database applications have meant a shift from structured data management to significant movements of all types of data to both on-premise and off-premise (cloud) locations. Increasing rates of application retirement and the increasing requirements in compliance and e-discovery have caused enterprises to take a closer look at data archiving.
"In today’s enterprise, a well-structured data archiving strategy can help lower IT costs, improve application performance and enhance data security. Given the exponential growth of data in the enterprise, and the continued need to manage, regulate and maintain this data, we developed this report to assess some of the top offerings in the data archiving market to assist enterprises in making strategic decisions on how to manage data growth. Technology optimization creates a need to reduce cost but optimize databases to enhance performance. Feature-function comparisons don’t tell the complete picture in this regard, so we focuses on use cases, particularly in areas such as application retirement and database performance optimization” Fairchild said, commenting on the relevance of data archiving.
This Constellation CosmosTM fits into Constellation’s business-focused research theme, Technology Optimization and Innovation.
THE REPORT
More information about Constellation Cosmos: Data Archiving Solutions can be found here: http://constellationrg.com/research/2012/10/constellation-cosmos-data-ar...
ABOUT Alea Fairchild
Alea Fairchild is Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research. Alea’s research explores key business themes including intelligent data management and the changing view of the data landscape from the Cloud, value chain data management: insuring partners’ data protection and privacy policies, next gen government: data privacy and ILM best practices. Dr. Fairchild has 18 years of experience in global IT market analysis, and has worked for major market research firms as both an analyst and as a consultant. She has also been a consultant to the European Commission as well as to major multinational IT companies throughout Europe.
ABOUT Technology Optimization
New economic realities and shrinking IT budgets necessitate that IT organizations become better at justifying new projects, more efficient in delivering IT services, and smarter in adopting new technologies that can deliver business value while reducing costs. The Technology Optimization theme will provide research and advisory to CIOs that are seeking to invest in innovation and strategic advantage while operating within the confines of limited IT budgets.
