IT Director Confessions

“My MBOs are availability, security, and disaster recovery. Running dbExport.sh for DevOps? Not so much.” —IT Director The digital economy has created an unquenchable thirst for data across all aspects of the business. On one hand are the data consumers like DevOps, with their increasing need for data, using it to drive new projects and innovation in areas like AI/ML, apps development, and IoT. On the other hand are the data operators, whose top priority Cutting datasets on-demand isn’t just painful, it can be a job losing proposition with risks around compliance requirements, like GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, and others. is to ensure that databases “We bury our blown data storage budget in T&E.” —IT Director With so many projects in play, it’s easy for data redundancy to take an expensive toll. And with data volumes being bigger than ever, that’s a problem. Initiatives like cloud migrations or new application development all require data, and never just stored once. They're cloned in databases and systems are available and responsive for mission-critical This is often why it's the easiest solution, and restricting production processes, and access is the direct opposite of what data consumers they're all locked down. need—a recipe for putting innovation on ice. across dev, multiple test environments, UAT, and other places. In fact, much of nonproduction is often redundant. That doesn’t just mean a wasteful bill that feels like it’s better off hidden—but painful duplicative demands for data refreshes too. CONFESSIONS ITDEVELOPER DIRECTOR DBA 5 “There were only three days left for testing in our cloud migration.” —IT Director Everyone is moving to the cloud, but testing can often fall through the cracks. In a recent survey of 1,500+ IT leaders, 39% said the lack of testing resulted in the late discovery of issues and was a key contributor to a migration failure. Why IT Directors Love Delphix With the Delphix Dynamic Data Platform, IT Directors can meet the data demands of DevOps and business teams, without risking production, security, or spinning cycles exporting and copying data. Meet data demands without the downtime Delphix’s Dynamic Data Platform securely distributes irreversibly masked, personalized data to each data consumer with zero production downtime. Slash non-production data redundancy Data virtualization helps IT cuts non-production storage by up to 90% by delivering virtual copies that don’t create incremental storage cost and eliminates lengthy data refreshes. More time for better cloud migrations Self-service data makes it simple It’s because 60% noted delays at the front end of the “We’re seeing a lot of benefit in shortened project getting environments up, populated with data, and delivery cycles, and this helps give us the heterogeneous environments whether the servers ready, so the actual process of setting up test confidence that we’re going to have the agility on-premise or cloud paired with environments and performing testing typically slides off the end of the project. Without data that flows to help everyone stay on plan, cloud migration can quickly turn into untested apps that stoke user frustration. CONFESSIONS and flexibility we need moving forward.” —Jason Anders | Fomer Technology Director, Fannie Mae for testers to populate data from dynamic data controls that enable testers to refresh, rewind, bookmark, and branch data. The result is 50% more time to focus on testing. IT DIRECTOR DBA 7