A major wireless telecom wanted to curb rising data storage costs. With the help of Estuate and IBM Optim solutions, the telecom implemented an enterprise data management strategy to archive old data and retire unused applications. This is expected to save tens of millions annually by minimizing hardware purchases and eliminating at least 1 petabyte of storage over the next few years. Estuate helped train the telecom's staff so it could independently manage its data going forward.
The 2012 EMC Corporation IT Performance Report EMC
For a peek into EMC’s own IT Transformation, IT as a Service, Big Data and to providing our users with consumer-grade experiences, read the 2012 EMC Corporation IT Performance Report.
EMC's IT Transformation Journey ( EMC Forum 2014 )EMC
The Cloud transforms IT from being reactive into a business enabler improving your organizations agility. But IT Transformation is not just about technology. It involves changing IT roles, skills, and processes to adapt to the new IT paradigm. Led by EMC IT, let's come together in this insightful session to explore how to transform your IT infrastructure, operating model, and applications.
White Paper: EMC Accelerates Journey to Big Data with Business Analytics as a...EMC
This white paper examines how EMC is exploiting the Big Data opportunity with a new agile model for analytics and reporting. Business-Analytics-as-a-Service (BAaaS) significantly reduces total cost of ownership and provides predictive analytics proficiency and increased business agility. The paper details BAaaS architecture, deployment, results, best practices, and early adopter use cases.
The 2012 EMC Corporation IT Performance Report EMC
For a peek into EMC’s own IT Transformation, IT as a Service, Big Data and to providing our users with consumer-grade experiences, read the 2012 EMC Corporation IT Performance Report.
EMC's IT Transformation Journey ( EMC Forum 2014 )EMC
The Cloud transforms IT from being reactive into a business enabler improving your organizations agility. But IT Transformation is not just about technology. It involves changing IT roles, skills, and processes to adapt to the new IT paradigm. Led by EMC IT, let's come together in this insightful session to explore how to transform your IT infrastructure, operating model, and applications.
White Paper: EMC Accelerates Journey to Big Data with Business Analytics as a...EMC
This white paper examines how EMC is exploiting the Big Data opportunity with a new agile model for analytics and reporting. Business-Analytics-as-a-Service (BAaaS) significantly reduces total cost of ownership and provides predictive analytics proficiency and increased business agility. The paper details BAaaS architecture, deployment, results, best practices, and early adopter use cases.
Estuate implemented the IBM Optim Data Growth Solution, retired the company’s unneeded instances of Oracle E-Business Suite, archived all the data from the applications, and delivered a reporting capability for the retired data.
We know what it takes to solve our clients’ biggest challenges, and we’ve spent the last 50 years delivering software that is fueled by expertise, built for change, and ready for work.
The purpose of this webinar is to discuss project management of cloud computing. It demystifies terms and uncovers concepts associated with the cloud-based services. It discusses the evolution of the cloud by tracing its conceptualization back to earlier pioneers.
Deliver your message! Organizing your PowerPoint and presenting to audiencesTony Pearson
This session covers how to build a PowerPoint presentation and deliver it to full effect. Presented at IBM TechU in Johannesburg, South Africa September 2019
What is Cloud Computing? Top 15 Advantages of Cloud Computing. The case for Cloud Computing. Technology behing the IT Authorities Cloud. Cloud Computing case study.
The presentation will discuss the meaning of cloud technologies, various cloud approaches, the three paths to private cloud, challenges associated with private cloud and big data.
This paper will discuss how cloud is helping enterprises, governments and industries around the globe meet their current challenges through key value drivers.
The National Registration Department of
Malaysia (Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara
Malaysia, or JPN) is the government agency
responsible for registering important demographic
events. To expedite statistical queries
and requests for data extraction from governmental
entities, JPN custom-built an application
referred to as the Statistics and Data Extraction
Request Management System (SAL). Although
the application was designed to automatically
manage, calculate and distribute responses to
data requests, the underlying hardware platform
was woefully inadequate for the task and
frequently bogged down.
ZK Research: Virtual Infrastructure Creates Communications AgilityAvaya Inc.
The role of the CIO has changed more in the past five years than any other position in the corporate world. Historically, the CIO and IT department has been responsible for managing and running the technology infrastructure and has had little to do with augmenting the business. Today, IT leaders are tasked with deploying technology to drive the business and be a catalyst for change.
Estuate implemented the IBM Optim Data Growth Solution, retired the company’s unneeded instances of Oracle E-Business Suite, archived all the data from the applications, and delivered a reporting capability for the retired data.
We know what it takes to solve our clients’ biggest challenges, and we’ve spent the last 50 years delivering software that is fueled by expertise, built for change, and ready for work.
The purpose of this webinar is to discuss project management of cloud computing. It demystifies terms and uncovers concepts associated with the cloud-based services. It discusses the evolution of the cloud by tracing its conceptualization back to earlier pioneers.
Deliver your message! Organizing your PowerPoint and presenting to audiencesTony Pearson
This session covers how to build a PowerPoint presentation and deliver it to full effect. Presented at IBM TechU in Johannesburg, South Africa September 2019
What is Cloud Computing? Top 15 Advantages of Cloud Computing. The case for Cloud Computing. Technology behing the IT Authorities Cloud. Cloud Computing case study.
The presentation will discuss the meaning of cloud technologies, various cloud approaches, the three paths to private cloud, challenges associated with private cloud and big data.
This paper will discuss how cloud is helping enterprises, governments and industries around the globe meet their current challenges through key value drivers.
The National Registration Department of
Malaysia (Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara
Malaysia, or JPN) is the government agency
responsible for registering important demographic
events. To expedite statistical queries
and requests for data extraction from governmental
entities, JPN custom-built an application
referred to as the Statistics and Data Extraction
Request Management System (SAL). Although
the application was designed to automatically
manage, calculate and distribute responses to
data requests, the underlying hardware platform
was woefully inadequate for the task and
frequently bogged down.
ZK Research: Virtual Infrastructure Creates Communications AgilityAvaya Inc.
The role of the CIO has changed more in the past five years than any other position in the corporate world. Historically, the CIO and IT department has been responsible for managing and running the technology infrastructure and has had little to do with augmenting the business. Today, IT leaders are tasked with deploying technology to drive the business and be a catalyst for change.
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To Get any Project for CSE, IT ECE, EEE Contact Me @ 09666155510, 09849539085 or mail us - ieeefinalsemprojects@gmail.com-Visit Our Website: www.finalyearprojects.org
Showcasing exemplary stories of success where channel partners have gone to great lengths to implement innovative solutions. Acclaiming those partners who have risen to the challenges of the digital era and transformed their business to a solutions offering. Inspiring channel businesses to become value-added providers and trusted allies to their customers. Stories that made a Difference.
Key stories of the edition are as below:
1. FUELING GROWTH - CDW Middle East & Africa
2. NEW FRONTIERS- EmaxIT International
3. LAYING THE FOUNDATION - Innovative Incorporation
Trading
4. CRITICAL CONNECTIONS- Visiontech Systems International
5. THE BIG PICTURE - BMB Group
6. THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE - Maxbyte Technologies
7. BANKING ON THE FUTURE - ConSol Enterprising IT
8. TOP GRADE - Cloud Box Technologies
9. EAGLE EYE - Fox Data Dubai
10.SECURE GATEWAYS - Virus Rescuers
IDC Tech Spotlight: From Silicon To CloudJames Price
The topic of cloud computing has received a tremendous amount of attention in the last year. This whitepaper discusses some of the aspects of the delivery of IT Infrastructure as a service.
NEC Backup as a Service reduces administrative tasks, helping it departments...InteractiveNEC
Cloud solutions continue to grow not only in adoption but also in importance in customer IT strategies. In typical risk-averse practices, cloud solutions were initially used near the fringes of IT environments, delivering test and development functions far outside most of the core mission-critical workloads sustaining internal and external business operations. Likewise, customers in regulated industries such as healthcare or government were initially wary of the security and performance of services delivered from third-party data centers. These dynamics are changing rapidly, however, as both the customer and vendor behavior around cloud have matured considerably. Cloud providers have expanded their data center locations, added almost every flavor of regulatory compliance, and enhanced security capabilities. These developments have dramatically lowered the traditional barriers to cloud adoption, allowing customers in almost any industry to have at least the possibility of deploying most of their workloads through cloud delivery methods.
NJVC Implementation of Cloud Computing Solutions in Federal AgenciesGovCloud Network
This paper outlines the essential steps to constructing a solid cloud computing roadmap.This paper outlines the essential steps to constructing a solid cloud computing roadmap.
The leading company in the field of automation for security and monitoring of the environments
has chosen Cisco technology to interconnect locations and subsidiaries internationally through a
communication architecture and integrated data collaboration with voice and video.
The promise of cloud computing is realized because of its
essential fundamentals—standardization of infrastructure,
virtualized resources and automated processes—and the
business results are measurable. Cloud computing represents
a paradigm shift at many levels, but the ‘return on investment’
that cloud customers are realizing cannot be overstated.
Webinar: Amplify your information governance with a robust data lineageEstuate, Inc.
Join Mr. Yetkin Ozkucur, VP and Practice Lead for ASG’s Enterprise Data Intelligence Suite and Mr. Marc, COO, Estuate Inc. for the webinar 'Amplify your information governance with a robust data lineage' on Wednesday, 23rd May 2018 to understand:
* How data lineage offers better visibility of your critical data assets
* How you can integrate data lineage with your existing governance framework
* How Estuate combines the best of IBM’s Information Governance and ASG’s Data Lineage
Register here https://www.estuate.com/upcoming-event/amplify-your-information-governance-with-a-robust-data-lineage
Webinar on IBM Optim Test Data Management and Data PrivacyEstuate, Inc.
Join us for this webinar on Thursday, October 24 @ 03:00 PM IST featuring insights from Rajarajan Packianathan on IBM Optim Test Data Management and Data Privacy .Register today to reserve your seats - http://goo.gl/RfHND8
Webinar on Managing your Oracle EBS for ProductivityEstuate, Inc.
Join us on this webinar on Thursday, October 03 @ 10AM PDT to learn how to improve processes with automation, Reduce chaos, production downtime and inefficient firefighting, maximize the ROI of Oracle EBS and increase application availability and reliability, speed changes and upgrades to Oracle EBS.
Stop Hunger Now Partners with Estuate to package 10,000 MealsEstuate, Inc.
Stop Hunger Now and Estuate are joining forces in the fight against hunger. More than 30 employees will package meals for the world’s hungry on September 28, 2013 in Sunnyvale, CA at 10:00 AM.
Upcoming Webinar on Retiring Applications - The Low Hanging Fruit in IT SavingsEstuate, Inc.
Join us for this webinar to learn how an application retirement strategy and a Corporate Archive Repository can yield big cost savings while meeting the business's data access and regulatory compliance needs on Wednesday, April 25 @ 10AM PST by experts Marc Hebert & Brian Babineau
Best Practices in Implementing Oracle Database Security ProductsEstuate, Inc.
Information is the world’s new currency. Databases are the digital banks that store and retrieve valuable information. The growing number of high-profile incidents in which customer records, confidential information and intellectual property are leaked, lost or stolen has created an explosive demand for solutions that protect against the deliberate or inadvertent release of sensitive information.Oracle is the global leader in relational database technology, and has built a rich set of database security products and database features within its product portfolio.
Have you begun to see the value of Enterprise Data Management? If so, perhaps you’ve decided that simply buying more hardware is no longer a viable option for your IT department. Despite the ever-falling cost of hardware, each new machine you add will increase your labor, power, and cooling costs over time.
Ready To Make The Move To Oracle Release 12Estuate, Inc.
In as quickly as 2-4 weeks, Estuate will help your organization upgrade one operating unit to Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) R12, providing the basis for your remaining R12 upgrade. Using the Rapid E-Suite solution, we will extract your current configurations and setups from your 11i environment in a secure process, and assist you in transforming the 11i configurations into R12 formats. Once configured, we’ll inject these configurations into a fresh R12 instance.
The world-class functionality in Oracle enables our clients to migrate their applications written using other databases, such as MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase in a matter of weeks. Migrating databases and their accompanying applications is not a minor business undertaking.
Estuate - Control Application Data GrowthEstuate, Inc.
Data growth is a significant challenge for most Fortune 1000 companies. The drivers of data growth are organic business growth, mergers and acquisitions, data retention requirements and something the author of this white paper refers to as the “Data Multiplier Effect.”
Integration of Oracle EAM with Oracle AutoVueEstuate, Inc.
Estuate’s Work Order Print Service solves the work order printing challenge, consistently rated one of Oracle eAM customers’ biggest challenges, by enabling easy printing of work order reports and related attachments stored in eAM. A company is only as good as its infrastructure. Regardless of size or purpose, business processes and services within a company rely heavily on the dependability of assets and their impact on everyday business processes.
Estuate provides end-to-end implementation and management of leading enterprise application products. We specialize in the full Oracle E-Business Suite and IBM’s Optim products—Data Archiving, Data Masking, Test Data Management and Decommissioning.
Five Characteristics of a Good Oracle Exadata Implementation PartnerEstuate, Inc.
When companies want to implement powerful software, they need to implement powerful hardware. That’s a rule that will probably never change—so companies have come to accept it. What they’re still wrestling with is the fact that there needs to be a connection between the server and the hard disk.
Enterprise applications and databases do not just help in running the business - they are your business. And every year, they grow in size and complexity, making them harder to manage. Uncontrolled data growth threatens application performance and service level agreements, increases maintenance costs, and exposes enterprises to legal liability for data privacy and security.
Estuate expertise in proven Oracle BI methodologies mitigates key risk factors from your business intelligence implementations. Estuate can redefine your BI strategy and deliver cost effective deployments and adoption.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Welcome to the first live UiPath Community Day Dubai! Join us for this unique occasion to meet our local and global UiPath Community and leaders. You will get a full view of the MEA region's automation landscape and the AI Powered automation technology capabilities of UiPath. Also, hosted by our local partners Marc Ellis, you will enjoy a half-day packed with industry insights and automation peers networking.
📕 Curious on our agenda? Wait no more!
10:00 Welcome note - UiPath Community in Dubai
Lovely Sinha, UiPath Community Chapter Leader, UiPath MVPx3, Hyper-automation Consultant, First Abu Dhabi Bank
10:20 A UiPath cross-region MEA overview
Ashraf El Zarka, VP and Managing Director MEA, UiPath
10:35: Customer Success Journey
Deepthi Deepak, Head of Intelligent Automation CoE, First Abu Dhabi Bank
11:15 The UiPath approach to GenAI with our three principles: improve accuracy, supercharge productivity, and automate more
Boris Krumrey, Global VP, Automation Innovation, UiPath
12:15 To discover how Marc Ellis leverages tech-driven solutions in recruitment and managed services.
Brendan Lingam, Director of Sales and Business Development, Marc Ellis
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Assure Contact Center Experiences for Your Customers With ThousandEyes
Estuate helps major wireless telecom save tens of millions
1. Estuate helps a major
wireless telecom curb data
growth with IBM Optim
CHALLENGE
A major wireless telecom wanted to curb data growth and reduce hardware and storage costs across
its enterprise. After years of accumulating transaction records, the telecom‟s databases had become
difficult and costly to maintain and operate.
SOLUTION
Estuate and IBM worked together to implement IBM Optim Solutions and enhance the telecom‟s data
governance function.
RESULTS
Using enterprise data management best practices, the telecom expects to:
Save potentially tens of millions of dollars per year.
Minimize the need to purchase new server and storage hardware.
Eliminate at least one petabyte of storage over the next few years.
Maintain a consistent set of processes for data management.
Reduce the cost of database administration and IT operations.
Speed time-to-market for new products by streamlining testing.
2. HIGH CALL VOLUMES CAUSE DATA EXPERIENCED CONSULTANTS DEMONSTRATE
GROWTH AND HARDWARE THE VALUE OF EDM
SPRAWL
The telecom embarked on a detailed process of evaluation.
A major wireless telecommunications provider After considering an enterprise data integration solution
recently assessed its transaction processing from Informatica, the telecom began to investigate IBM
volumes and realized it needed to change the Optim Integrated Data Management Solutions—an
way it manages data. Thanks to the telecom‟s integrated, modular environment to design, develop,
high daily call volumes, the databases for its deploy, operate, optimize, and govern enterprise data
customer management, billing, and service throughout its lifecycle.
systems had grown to staggering sizes. But
due to the ever-falling cost of new hardware, IBM Lab Services prepared a proof of concept to
the telecom had simply purchased new demonstrate the benefits of a data archiving factory. The
hardware and let transaction records and other telecom engaged Estuate to provide valuable
data accumulate. implementation assistance and apply its methodology for
implementing a data management factory.
Over time, the telecom‟s developers continued
to proliferate copies of production databases “Our telecom client decided to work with Estuate because
for non-production purposes such as testing, of Estuate‟s depth and breadth of experience with IBM
development, and training, resulting in Optim,” says Jodie DeMuth, Optim Sales Leader, IBM. “We
hundreds of copies of massive databases. recommend Estuate with confidence because we trust their
When the telecom‟s overall storage EDM methodology, the depth and breadth of their Optim
requirements reached multiple petabytes, the implementation resources and experience, and their
company decided to create and implement an „extreme service‟ culture.”
enterprise data management (EDM) strategy
that would drive cost savings around archiving During the proof of concept, IBM used InfoSphere
data and retiring out-of-use applications. Discovery to show that one of the telecom‟s key business
applications, which were to be retired, touched far more
“Although the costs of storage hardware and databases than anyone had previously realized. This
CPU have continued to fall with Moore‟s Law insight convinced the telecom that IBM and Estuate were
over the past decade, the cost of managing the right solution partners to power the new data factory.
that hardware can be crippling to an IT
department,” explains Marc Hebert, chief “With IBM InfoSphere Discovery, we proved that it‟s not
operating officer, Estuate. “Rather than simply always obvious how much data any given application
continuing to let its disk farms grow, as so accesses and generates over the course of its lifecycle,”
many companies have done, this telecom took Hebert remarks. “You have to perform very careful analysis.
a strategic look at managing its data and Having a tool that provides a view of those data
minimizing its storage requirements.” relationships can accelerate any EDM project.”
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3. HANDS-ON TRAINING HELPS COMPANY BECOME SELF-SUFFICIENT IN EDM
Because the telecom faced tight budget constraints So far, Estuate has analyzed 10 of the telecom‟s
and lacked the core competence it needed in data applications, archiving and retiring four of them.
archiving, Estuate spearheaded the implementation The target for the second year is to address up to
of IBM Optim to support the company‟s EDM 12 more applications.
initiative. The project is progressing in phases.
Once the initial archiving is complete for each
application, Estuate hands over archiving
responsibilities to the telecom‟s IT operations
group. This will enable the telecom to be largely
self-sufficient in EDM after the project has been
completed.
“Since we‟re dealing with fairly complex tools,
there‟s no substitute for actually doing the work,”
says Hebert. “That‟s why we‟re delivering all the
training in the form of project execution, with a
mentor guiding staff members in hands-on work.
We‟ll also remain available to provide classroom
training and documentation to reinforce that
knowledge after the fact.”
DATA ARCHIVING AND APPLICATION RETIREMENT PAVE THE W AY FOR ONGOING SAVINGS
With IBM Optim and Estuate, the telecom projects “Within the first year of the project, we’ve
it will save hundreds of terabytes (TB) of storage
achieved some significant breakthroughs in
over the years to come. Not only has the company
retiring and archiving applications. That
established a consistent set of processes to
sets the stage for much more to come. Our
implement a data management factory, but it has
client is using the principles of EDM to
transitioned toward a governance model with a
competency center around data management. reverse the data proliferation that caused
this outgrowth of hardware.”
Marc Hebert
COO, Estuate
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4. Working closely with the telecom‟s vice president of IT,
Estuate continues to transfer knowledge to the IT staff.
ABOUT ESTUATE
Already, a major organizational transformation is taking
place within the telecom. Headquartered in Silicon Valley,
“There has been a significant cultural change associated Estuate is a global information
with this project,” says Hebert. “We‟ve helped our client get technology services company that
away from the mindset of throwing more hardware at specializes in helping companies
problems—not just because IT budgets are getting too tight establish and improve enterprise
for that sort of thing, but because EDM can deliver real, data management strategies and
ongoing cost savings.” best practices.
Over the next three to five years, the telecom‟s savings will Estuate is IBM‟s go-to partner for the
come from freeing up about one petabyte of disk storage implementation of IBM® Optim
space. Associated with this reduction, the company will Solutions for custom applications,
achieve labor savings in database administration and IT Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft,
operations. The potential savings run into the tens of millions Siebel and JD Edwards. We have
of dollars annually. The telecom will also be able to enhance expertise on distributed platforms and
its time-to-market for new products by provisioning test IBM mainframes. Estuate was one of
systems more quickly and deploying systems sooner. the early partners involved in the
Oracle-to-DB2 migration program. We
work closely with IBM account teams
to meet our mutual clients' Enterprise
“When you cut down on the overall data burden
Data Management needs.
across a major organization like this, you help all
of IT to run more efficiently. That results in
bottom-line cost savings. Our corporate sponsor
within the telecom is excited and pleased by the
For more information, please contact:
progress so far—and so are we.”
Marc Hebert, Estuate’s COO
Marc Hebert
marc@estuate.com
COO, Estuate
T: 510-468-7132
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