Reduce The Burden on Operational Systems by Offloading Historical Data

The explosive growth of data volumes in enterprise applications and databases forces IT groups to maintain performance while controlling costs.

As applications age over time, the underlying databases become bloated with large amounts of inactive or historical data that negatively impacts the ability to meet backup windows, maintain continuous uptime and additionally response time for recovery after a potential outage. Additionally, performance for queries or look-ups against that primary database are also impacted due to the size and complexity of the data being managed.

However, the historical data must remain accessible, both for ongoing business processes and to meet legal retention requirements, which vary by industry sector and country or region.

To overcome these challenges and better manage infrastructure costs, you can offload historical data to a dedicated purpose-built archive, which not only reduces the overall footprint but also enables ongoing query for various business and regulatory purposes.

The key benefits for using RainStor as your database archive include:

• Reduce the size of the production system and remove older, historical data, which is less frequently accessed.
• Reduce the overall IT maintenance budget by having more manageable primary production databases which are easier to maintain and back-up or replicate for high availability purposes.
• Stay compliant by providing full access to all data, which remains online and query-able.