OuterBay and EMC Partner to Manage Structured Content
Companies to Further Integrate EMC and OuterBay Technologies
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"I think it fills a hole in our ILM strategy, and it's one of the few holes we have left," said Mark Sorenson, EMC's senior vice president of information access and recovery software. He added that the Hopkinton, Mass.-based storage vendor plans to introduce its first full ILM product suite in next year's first quarter.
Earlier this year, EMC agreed to buy both Legato Software Inc. and Documentum Inc. as part of its effort to cobble together an integrated set of tools for managing the entire life cycle of data. <font color=red>But Sorenson said EMC will rely on third-party vendors such as OuterBay Technologies Inc. in Campbell, Calif., to sell users database archiving software.</font>
OuterBay's LiveArchive tool can identify inactive information in databases and relocate the data within the same disk array or move it to less-expensive storage, based on policies set by users. Although the agreement being announced today isn't mutually exclusive, EMC said OuterBay will be its "preferred vendor" for database archiving software.........
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......OuterBay's ADM software is database archiving software that shuttles data between storage tiers, ensuring free access to archives across applications, platforms and storage systems. <font color=red>EMC will gain unfettered access to this technology,</font> which will give them added firepower along with the e-mail archiving and content management software it purchased with Legato.
OuterBay's software has the ability to key in specific files in a sea of millions -- a crucial feature for companies wary of audits, said OuterBay Marketing Director Maureen Kelly. With it, users can run a query and get a report on payroll information for a specific amount of years.
Kelly said OuterBay software identifies and migrates "inactive" or legacy data off of production applications and application servers and production databases, and store them in a "live" archive in the case of inactive data and in an encapsulated archive in the case of legacy data. OuterBay products work across heterogeneous applications from PeopleSoft and Oracle and databases including Oracle, DB2, Informix and others.
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OuterBay ADM Suite for Complete Information Lifecycle Management
OuterBay’s ADM Suite helps to reduce the amount of data in production environments by up to 60%. The most recent 12 to 24 months of data are typically kept on production, the next 3-7 years are moved off production with OuterBay LiveArchive on secondary storage where it is stored in a database and remains accessible to the business user through the business application, and 7-20 years or more can be moved using OuterBay Encapsulated Archive (tertiary storage) where the data is stored in a flat file, accessible through an XML report reader or the OuterBay XML browser, without reloading the data into the production system.
"A lifecycle-based approach is quickly becoming a requirement to contain the costs of managing application data. Encapsulated Archive delivers the final stage required for complete and long-term application and database information lifecycle management," said John Kane, Senior Director of IT Program Office, ArvinMeritor
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