Zettapoint Announces Version 2.6 of DBclassify with Powerful Single-Click Recommendations and Additional Support for SAP

According to Mike Wytenus, EMC Executive Director, Technology Alliances, “Our customers are experiencing significant growth in their database infrastructure and are seeking ways to “tune and prune” it in an intelligent way that reduces management cost while improving service levels. EMC's ability to offer a DBA-approved tiered storage solution leverages Zettapoint's DBclassify with Right-Tiering capabilities and meets our goal of delivering superior technology that reduces cost and improves overall database performance.”

05/10/2010

 

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Christopher Sauer, Zettapoint csauer@zettapoint.com Tel: 978-369-9900				Christine Shock, Shock PR cshock@shockpr.com Tel: 508-743-9993

 

Booth 434

EMC WORLD

 

Zettapoint Announces Version 2.6 of DBclassify with Powerful Single-Click Recommendations and Additional Support for SAP

 

Dramatically Reduces Total Cost of Ownership while Improving Application Performance

 

Boston, MA (EMC World) – May 10, 2010 – Zettapoint (http://www.zettapoint.com), a leader in database Right-Tiering solutions, today announced a new version of its DBclassify™ software solution that greatly extends ease-of-use for all users with a new single-click Recommendations Button and increased accuracy for SAP users by mapping specific SAP transactions and programs.  DBclassify is appropriate for use on all EMC® storage platforms, including the EMC Symmetrix® V-Max™ storage system. Zettapoint is showcasing the latest version of DBclassify at EMC World 2010 in Boston, MA, in booth 434.

 

DBclassify provides customers with the ability to classify data by usage and I/O, and accurately and confidently apply Right-Tiering to their valuable database assets. This results in optimized database object placement, peak performance, and a manageable total-cost-of-ownership (TCO). 

 

According to Mike Wytenus, EMC Executive Director, Technology Alliances, “Our customers are experiencing significant growth in their database infrastructure and are seeking ways to “tune and prune” it in an intelligent way that reduces management cost while improving service levels. EMC's ability to offer a DBA-approved tiered storage solution leverages Zettapoint's DBclassify with Right-Tiering capabilities and meets our goal of delivering superior technology that reduces cost and improves overall database performance.”

 

Right-Tiering takes into consideration detailed data access patterns along with I/O profile and usage characteristics of the workloads serviced by the database.  It then classifies that data by its usage profile or “temperature”. Only data classified as mission-critical (“hot”), frequently accessed by high value applications and users, should be stored on Tier 1 (e.g. Symmetrix or Tier 0, EFD). Less frequently accessed, but still important, (“warm”) data with less stringent service level requirements is relegated to lower performance, higher capacity storage devices (e.g. CLARiiON). Dormant (“cold”) data, typically historical or static, can be marked for archival storage.

 

According to Adi Hirschtein, Zettapoint vice president of product management, “The new Recommendations Button represents a quantum leap in ease-of-use for our customers.  Now, with just a single mouse-click, DBAs and Storage Architects can receive powerful recommendations for moving specific database objects to the most appropriate storage tier along with the database commands to implement the moves.”

 

The DBclassify Recommendations Button requires no manual work on the part of the user.  Output of the Recommendations Button is a Microsoft Excel file containing a list of candidate objects for each storage tier along with the database commands to move them.  In addition, it defines the optimal size of each storage tier by showing the required size along with the number of candidate objects.

 

It’s important to “Right-Tier” based on database objects to ensure that only the “hot” objects are allocated to the most expensive storage tier (Tier 0). Moving entire tablespaces or logical unit numbers is inefficient as these would move “cold” objects as well, creating waste on an expensive storage device.

 

“Our DBclassify customers and users are typically very busy people,” said Steve Campbell, Zettapoint CEO. “Anything we can do to either make it easier for them to produce meaningful results or analyze the data in a way that makes it easier to work with is a winning situation for both of us.”

 

In addition to the Recommendations Button, DBclassify version 2.6 also includes important new features for SAP Administrators. This version introduces significant technological advances that provide DBclassify with greatly increased accuracy and precision when conducting a Right-Tiering exercise in SAP environments.  More specifically, DBclassify users in SAP environments now have the ability to correlate specific SQL statements and database objects to the SAP programs and transactions that were using them

           

“The ability to correlate SQL statements and objects to specific SAP programs and transactions is available in this latest release of DBclassify,” stated Nir Sela, Zettapoint vice president of product development.  “This means that if DBclassify users identify an object that is a candidate for EFD, they can drill down and look at the SAP programs or transactions that are using the object and determine if it is important enough to the business to justify moving the object to EFD. Essentially, this means that we can more accurately and precisely Right-Tier in SAP environments based on SAP program and transaction business priority.”

 

Another desirable feature when conducting a Right-Tiering exercise in an SAP environment is the ability to correlate specific SQL statements and database objects with the SAP users who were running them.  Development is currently under way for this powerful new feature that will allow storage administrators to make tiering decisions based on the importance of specific users and programs to the business instead of treating all users as equals.  It is expected to be available later in the year as a standard DBclassify feature.

 

DBclassify identifies frequently used, or hot, data which then can be allocated to the highest storage tier, such as EFD or fibre channel, while less frequently used or unused data can be allocated to lower, less costly tiers such as SATA drives and archival storage. Storage Right Tiering delivers the dual benefit of improving SLA  compliance for business users by greatly reducing I/O wait times and efficiently managing TCO by placing the right database objects on the right tiers based on actual usage patterns.

 

DBclassify benefits include:

• Ability to justify, acquire and allocate storage assets based on actual data usage patterns and importance to the business.
• Reduction or elimination of I/O wait time for the most critical applications and users through intelligent EFD selection and implementation.
• Dramatic reduction in the cost of Oracle infrastructure through storage tiering.
• Reduction of the time, cost and risk of database consolidation or migration projects.
• Identification of dormant data to move to less costly tiers of storage.
• Right Tiering that provides the right data in the right place for the right price.
• Ability to Right Tier the V-Max environment.

About Zettapoint

Zettapoint delivers software solutions which slash the total cost of ownership (TCO) for ever-growing enterprise databases. DBclassify, the company’s Right Tiering usage-based data classification solution, enables effective Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), improves asset utilization, and optimizes business intelligence processes. Zettapoint’s North American headquarters are in Concord, MA. For more information, visit www.zettapoint.com.

 

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