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Leading Analyst names ActiveBase
Cool Vendor for 2010
ActiveBase was
named Gartner 2010 Cool Vendor for innovation known as Dynamic Data
Masking.
Traditional data
masking solutions are static in that the obfuscated values are
physically stored in columns; limiting them to non-Production
environments.
ActiveBase is
break-through technology. Sensitive data can be masked differently
for different users - without changing the underlying database or
source code.
For the first
time ever, Production can be secured, by providing appropriate
access to data even by Privileged Users such as Production DBAs.
Read the press release: |
Ever since
the early days of IT, (aka Electronic Data Processing), it has been
commonly accepted to allow a certain percentage of IT Staff to have
access to the production environment.
These "trusted employees" were carefully
screened and were usually in close proximity to management due to
the confidentiality of critical sensitive data.
Originally, this was a practical matter and was
voluntarily implemented by the enterprise. Over the years, the
onslaught of international Data Privacy Legislation has made this a
compliance matter as well.
Today's large, multi-national enterprise is
faced with numerous cross-border data privacy exposures.
Additionally, the deployment of third-party contractors, there is
further separation from the traditional "trusted employee".
It is now critical to
evaluate solutions that will perform data masking in Production.
This will allow the critical nature of Production Support to perform
the necessary work, but not at the risk of exposing critical
sensitive information in the process.
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Quite
often, when application performance is suffering, the answer is
"Rewrite the SQL". But this is not as easy as it
sounds...especially when you don't have access to the source code.
Customers of 3rd-party ERP/CRM applications
such as PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle e-Business, Siebel, Amdocs, Clarify
and others, are frequently faced with the dilemma of knowing what is
wrong, and knowing what the solution is, but find themselves at the
mercy of the vendor to provide the fix on a timely basis, and
something that won't break the budget.
Other culprits include BI/DWH environments
including Business Objects, Cognos, Crystal Reports and other
end-user query and reporting tools. Sometimes, no matter how you
specify the request in the tool, the SQL that gets generated is
sub-optimal.
And what about those Development Tools like
Toad, DBArtisan, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus and others? Quite often the
developers and DBAs that use these tools do not understand the
implications of running tasks that cause massive performance
problems, both in Production and in Test.
Read more>> |
We have
all been there...on the phone with the help desk, when the agent says, "Sorry,
but my system is slow today...there is a lot going on in the system right now....happens
every day at this time"
Why? A peak processing period is occurring
and it is impacting the SLA on the critical business applications.
The peak processing from processes outside of the critical business
application, whether its system maintenance, a flood of BI requests
or a large batch submitted during prime time.
What is missing is a prime but basic function
that can manage the resource allocation of the active sessions and
running processes. Typically server resources are allocated on a
first-come, first-served basis and will attempt to share resources
equally across all applications.
Unfortunately, this is
not the way to go. Session and process resources should be allocated
based on stack-ranking of business priority. This will align
resource allocation with the business.
Read more
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