Britehouse, Africa’s largest reseller of Delphix virtual data solutions, has launched the new Delphix Copy Data Engine in South Africa.
Since 2012, Britehouse has used Delphix’s virtual database management solution, the Agile Data Platform, to help customers reduce database management risk and increase productivity each by a factor of five and reduce cost by a factor of 10.
Britehouse director and database and technology specialist, Dr Manfred Hertenberger, said the addition of the Copy Data Engine to the Delphix solution suite positions organisations of any size to significantly reduce their storage requirements. The Copy Data Engine pricing is very affordable, lowering the barrier to entry significantly.
“Although the Copy Data Engine is primarily focused on making backup and disaster recovery more efficient, its broader ramifications are fundamental to competitive operation. Companies are increasingly struggling to complete more projects with shrinking budgets. Delphix is able to provide efficiencies that are not possible using traditional technologies,” said Hertenberger.
He added that because it reduces data sprawl, the Copy Data Engine prevents the escalation in demand for additional storage, server hardware, and IT resources that is driven by new applications, new instances and regulations for existing applications, greater need for analytics, as well as an overall increase in data.
“Organisations are copying progressively more documents, files, and other electronic data in multiple silo systems such as disaster recovery, business continuity, test, development, and backups. All these systems operate independently of one another yet perform essentially the same functions of copy, store, move, and restore. As a consequence of the repetition, storage requirements are growing exponentially,” Hertenberger explained.
