Top 10 Start Ups to Watch

March 27, 2007, Byte and Switch

Solix Technologies makes it onto the list by targeting a corner of the archiving market that looks set to explode during the coming months. The software vendor, which develops products for handling structured data, seems well positioned to cope with the compliance demands on ever-growing customer databases. (See Tellabs Nabs Ocular, Solix Integrates With EMC Centera, and Packing It In.)

Hewlett-Packard led the charge of major storage vendors into database archiving when it acquired OuterBay in February 2006, but Solix, along with Applimation and Princeton Softech, is still very much in the game. (See HP Hops on OuterBay, Wipro Resells Solix, and Users Pick Princeton Softech.)

With so many parts of the storage market mature to the point of vendor saturation, this is one area where there is still everything to play for. "The archiving space has generally taken off -- look at email archiving, and unstructured data archiving, but what hasn't taken off is structured archiving," says Simon Robinson, an analyst at the 451 Group.

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Solix extends archiving software

By Ann Silverthorn

March 19, 2007, Infostor

Solix has broadened the scope of its archiving software and has re-christened it as the Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite. The suite addresses both compliance and information lifecycle management (ILM) with four components: Secure Test and Development, Data Auditor, Enterprise Archiving, and Application Sunsetting and Migration. (read more…)

Solix Intros EDMS

March 19, 2007, Byte and Switch

SUNNYVALE , Calif. -- Solix Technologies today announced its fourth generation of Compliance and Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solutions, the Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS), that help companies more efficiently classify, manage and secure enterprise data for information governance, tiered storage strategies and application data consolidations. (read more…)

Classifying Structured Data When Data is Created Simplifies E-Discovery

With the recent provisions in the Federal Rules for Civil Procedure, many companies are now in reaction mode investigating means for compliance. Several IT professionals have recently received mandates from superiors to implement plans immediately to ensure compliance (read more…)

Compliance Management & FRCP Rule Amendments: The IT Perspective

By Sai Gundavelli,
March 9, 2007 DMReview

CIOs are faced with multitude regulatory requirements in regards to enterprise data, such as Graham-Leach-Bliley, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, the Patriot Act and Basel II. If you carefully analyze each of these requirements from IT perspective, they broadly fall into following two categories: data retention and data auditing.

Before I discuss those, let's first define data. All data that is created or used in an organization, be it an email, an instant message or a document, constitutes a business record for the organization.

Active Archiving Helps Solve Application Performance Management Challenges

By Julie Lockner
February 16, 2007, DMReview

One of the biggest challenges facing a corporate IT support team once an application "goes live" is the daunting task of maintaining application performance service level agreements (SLAs). As data volumes and number of users accessing the systems grow, performance can be adversely impacted.

Application performance can be affected by many factors, including: database size, server and infrastructure class, number of users accessing the application and the quality of the application code. Most application support teams, developers and database administrators will say that most of their time is spent reactively responding to performance issues as opposed to other support and maintenance issues. (read more...)

Data classification begins to mature

By Michelle Hope
February 2, 2007, Infostor

When we profiled data-classification practices last year we found many storage professionals using data-classification products to discover what was taking up so much space on their G: drives. More often than not, they were surprised by what they found: Terabytes of data that hadn't been accessed in more than a year or sensitive, highly regulated customer information (e.g., credit card numbers, social security numbers, etc.) that had somehow made its way into various Office documents or flat files housed throughout their network.

We then asked these users what they planned to do with the data they had found. This is where many admitted they weren't quite sure how best to move forward. Although they universally acknowledged the importance of data classification in such larger initiatives as information lifecycle management (ILM), tiered storage, and archiving, many users seemed to still be feeling their way through their organization's political hierarchy when it came to progressing past the discovery phase. (read more...)

Tips for e-mail management and archiving

By Ann Silverthorn
February 2007, Infostor

Brian Babineau, an analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research and consulting firm, sees two reasons why companies archive their e-mail. The first is because they have to, due to compliance and legal mandates. (read more…)

Could you produce old e-mails and IMs in the event of a lawsuit?

How new federal rules could affect you

January 10, 2007 (Computerworld) -- While the data management implications of new criminal regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 have captured a great deal of attention, recent changes to the (U.S.) Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) impose their own requirements on management of archived e-mail and other electronic transmissions. (read more…)

Funding Your New Venture

Is venture capital better than private equity?

January 2007, American Ventures Magazine

The biggest challenge an entrepreneur faces in starting a new business is getting capital. While venture capital firms get the publicity and do offer advantages, they are not the only choice, and like everything else they have disadvantages as well. (read more…)

Solix integrates archiving solution with Oracle

December 1, 2006, Infostor

Solix Technologies has integrated a “non-trigger-based” version of its ARCHIVE-jinni active archiving solution with Oracle’s E-Business Suite. Triggers are procedural codes that can add complexity and overhead to a database, which could potentially degrade system performance and reliability.

Users can archive Oracle E-Business Suite database tables to an active archive database to improve system performance, while maintaining transactional referential integrity and transparent access to the archived data for end users. Oracle has certified the solution through the Oracle Application Integration Initiative.

Saving the Data

By Chris Preimesberger
November 27, 2006, eweek

U.S. businesses are going to have to change the way they handle electronically stored information when new federal rules go into effect Dec. 1.

The new regulations, adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court in April, say businesses must be able to quickly find such data when required by the federal court.

That means that every electronic document stored by businesses—e-mail, instant messages, financials, voice mail and all text and graphical documents—must be easily retrievable.

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Oracle Validates Solix ARCHIVEjinni Integration

November 27, 2006, EFYtimes

Solix Technologies, a provider of data management solutions for information lifecycle management (ILM), has announced the integration of the non-trigger-based version of the Solix ARCHIVEjinni active archiving solution to the Oracle E-Business Suite has been validated and certified by Oracle through the Application Integration Initiative. (read more...)

Solix integrates non-trigger-based ARCHIVEjinni

November 27, 2006, CIOl

HYDERABAD: Solix Technologies, a provider of data management solutions for Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), today announced the integration of the non-trigger-based version of the Solix ARCHIVEjinni active archiving solution to the Oracle E-Business Suite has been validated and certified by Oracle through the Application Integration Initiative.

Solix said in a statement that the non-trigger based solution ensures fast and efficient archive routines that won’t bog down your production instance.

Before the validation of the non-trigger version of Solix ARCHIVEjinni, previously Oracle-validated archiving solutions in the market used database triggers - procedural codes that add an additional layer of complexity and overhead to a database, potentially degrading system performance and reliability. (read more...)

Solix unveils Google enterprise search for Oracle E-Business suite

By: Mark Brunelli, News Editor
November 21, 2006, SearchOracle.com

Data-archiving software vendor Solix Technologies Inc. has added Google enterprise search capabilities to the Oracle E-Business suite.

The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based software maker's new Solix ARCHIVEjinni with Google enterprise search employs the Google Search Appliance to let users find and retrieve data across production and archived instances of Oracle's database and E-Business suite applications. The company says the new software is the first search-enabled archiving system for enterprise data. (read more...)

Content Classifiers Glom Onto Google

October 23, 2006, Byte and Switch

A growing roster of companies specializing in data classification and search are looking to Google to help them enhance their wares -- and vice versa. The results could boost IT pros' ability to find and manage stored information -- as long as the suppliers follow through.

Today, for instance, startup Mathon Systems unveiled plans to integrate its data forensics software with Google's Search Appliance, as part of Google's Enterprise Professional Program.

Mathon's software, called Integral, runs on x86 Windows or Linux servers to locate more than 250 metadata items in content situated on other servers and NAS arrays. This metadata is used to audit, classify, and control images, spreadsheets, and a range of other documents. For example, an audit trail is set up to include details about the location of documents, who has worked on them, and when. Policies can be set up to obtain data, to issue reports on it, and to control access to it. ( read more...)

Solix Integrates With Google

October 23, 2006, Byte and Switch

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Solix Technologies, a leading provider of enterprise data management solutions for Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) , today announced the general availability of Solix ARCHIVEjinni™ with Google Enterprise Search, the first customer-ready search enabled active archiving system for all enterprise data. Solix ARCHIVEjinni with Google Enterprise Search uses the Google Search Appliance to enhance the capabilities of its unified data management platform by adding content-specific search capabilities. Solix ARCHIVEjinni with Google Enterprise Search makes it easier to locate and retrieve any type of data across both production and archived instances, thus improving an organization’s ability to manage data as its value changes over time and more effectively gain business intelligence from their enterprise data. ( read more...)

Solix Appoints Dhananjay Bendre As Vice President

October 20, 2006, EFY Times

Solix Technologies, a provider of information lifecycle management solutions, has appointed Dhananjay Bendre as vice president of sales operations for APAC and Middle East market. Bandre will report to Shekhar Dasgupta, president and chief operating officer, Solix Technologies.

Dhananjay's vast industry experience in APAC and Middle East market of managing enterprise customers and channel development will be a tremendous benefit to Solix," said Dasgupta. "His extensive knowledge of APAC market, relationship with enterprise customers, channel partners and solutions selling background will enable us to expand our footprint in APAC and Middle East market." (read more...)

People on the move

October 18, 2006, San Jose Mercury News

SOLIX TECHNOLOGIES

Julie Lockner

Solix Technologies of Sunnyvale, a provider of information lifecycle management services, named Julie Lockner vice president of sales operations.

Lockner served at EMC and held senior engineering, marketing and sales positions at Oracle, Verbind and Raytheon. ( read more...)

Does brand matter?

October 9, 2006, Express Computer Online

The power of an organisational brand is indisputable in any area of business, including attracting the right talent. It is the big boys who dominate the recruitment market and are too formidable a force to reckon with for organisations which do not have a brand name to boast of. The big companies offer a plethora of allurements in the form of a structured career path, training programmes, more job security, a corporate working environment, opportunities for going abroad, et al. Then why should anyone ever consider working for a small setup? The answer narrows down to three primary reasons—more challenges, an innovative atmosphere and creating one’s identity in the company. ( read more...)

The Metadata Mystique: Exposing the Realities of Effective Metadata Management for ILM

By Sandhya Ganesan and Dinendra Joshi
September 29, 2006, DM Direct Newsletter (Print)

When you talk to people about metadata and why anyone should care about it, you get varied feedback. For some, while it makes sense in theory, in practice there is not enough reason for it. Others who want to do it either don't know how or just don't have the time to do it right.

Gone are the days when talking about metadata was just trendy and modern. In today's enterprise IT scenario, considering the staggering volumes of accumulated data, their exponential growth rates and the vast diversity of data sources, having a proper metadata process has become inevitable. It is only natural that vastly heterogeneous data types and sources would lead to an equally heterogeneous array of metadata types and sources. Nevertheless, companies are already feeling threatened by the idea of maintaining these metadata silos, which could prevent them from realizing the full benefit of their investments. Now is the time for IT thought leaders to adopt best practices for metadata capture and management so enterprise application metadata can be stored and managed centrally. (read more...)

Solix appoints Julie Lockner as VP Sales

September 19, 2006, CIOL

HYDERABAD: Information lifecycle management solutions provider Solix Technologies has named Julie Lockner as vice president of sales operations.

Lockner, who joins Solix from EMC Corporation, will report to Shekhar Dasgupta, president and chief operating officer, Solix Technologies.

Lockner has over ten years of database industry experience. She is an expert in ERP and CRM systems and during her tenure with EMC, Lockner was a member of the CTO’s office in the archive business unit.

Before EMC, Lockner held senior engineering, marketing and sales positions at Oracle, Verbind and Raytheon.

"Julie's vast industry experience will be a tremendous benefit to our customers,” said Dasgupta. “Her extensive knowledge of storage, databases and ILM solutions will enable her to quickly become a trusted partner with Solix customers.” (read more...)

ARCHIVEjinni to be DB2, SQL Server friendly

By: Kishore Kumar
September 13, 2006, CIOL

HYDERABAD: Solix Technologies’ flagship product ARCHIVEjinni, database management system (RDBMS), is poised to become DB2 and SQL Server friendly.

"The development and testing is in progress. It is likely to come up by the end of this month,’’ said Kishore Gadiraju, senior director, Product Engineering, Solix.

Oracle, IBM and Microsoft are strategic partners of Solix Technologies. Following Oracle and SQL In January IBM had launched its new version - DB2 Express C following the launch of latest versions of Oracle 10g and SQL Server last year.

Others who are also strategic partners of Solix are Google, SAP, HP, Sun Microsystems, EMC, Wipro Technologies and Sierra Atlantic. (read more...)

Solix Technologies adds new modules to archiving software

September 12, 2006, Computer Technology Review

Solix Technologies Inc, a provider of information lifecycle management (ILM) solutions, has announced two new standalone modules for the Solix ARCHIVEjinni active archiving solution. The first is a Data Security module and the second is the Solix ARCHIVEjinni MiniME subsetting module. These two modules add new security and subsetting capability to Solix ARCHIVEjinni, which is described by Solix as an unified active archiving platform for managing all enterprise data; structured, semi-structured and unstructured data.

The Solix ARCHIVEjinni Data Security and Solix ARCHIVEjinni MiniME modules operate together to make the creation of secure subsets of a production database easier and more secure, Solix of Sunnyvale, California said last week. The Solix ARCHIVEjinni MiniME module adds a secured instance subsetting tool to Solix ARCHIVEjinni that makes the creation of subsets of production databases easy, the company said.. The Data Security module adds a metadata-driven data security tool for protecting confidential information in subsets and in archived instances of a database. The resulting secure subset or archive is as secure, if not more, than the production database instance, it added.

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Solix Increases Oracle Support

September 5, 2006, Byte and Switch

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Solix Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solutions, and Sierra Atlantic, a leader in business process-based integration and enterprise application optimization, today announced a global partnership to provide the industry’s first and only active archiving solution that supports Oracle® Process Manufacturing. Sierra Atlantic becomes a global systems integrator for Solix Technologies, responsible for marketing and system integration of the Solix ARCHIVEjinniTM unified platform active archiving solution. ( read more...)

Solix Technologies partners with Sierra Atlantic

September 5, 2006, CIOL

HYDERABAD: Solix Technologies Inc. and Sierra Atlantic today announced a global partnership to provide the industry’s first and only active archiving solution that supports Oracle Process Manufacturing.

Sierra Atlantic becomes a global systems integrator for Solix Technologies, responsible for marketing and system integration of the Solix ARCHIVEjinni unified platform active archiving solution.

Burt Salop, vice president of worldwide ales and alliances, Solix Technologies, said, “The expertise Sierra Atlantic has with Oracle Process Manufacturing applications makes them a perfect partner for Solix. Their installed base of Oracle Process Manufacturing customers has a pent up need for archiving.”
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Solix, Sierra To Support Oracle Solution

September 5, 2006, EFY Times

NEW DEHLI: Solix Technologies and Sierra Atlantic have entered into a global partnership to provide the industry's first and only active archiving solution that supports Oracle Process Manufacturing. Under the deal, Sierra Atlantic becomes a global systems integrator for Solix, responsible for marketing and system integration of the Solix ARCHIVEjinni unified platform active archiving solution.

"The expertise Sierra Atlantic has with Oracle Process Manufacturing applications makes them a perfect partner for Solix," said Burt Salop, vice president of worldwide ales and alliances, Solix Technologies. "Their installed base of Oracle Process Manufacturing customers has a pent up need for archiving," he added. (read more...)

ILM Strategy has to be a company-wide initiave

September 7, 2006, CXO Today

A CIO must rally support and commitment of all the senior management and ensure cooperation from business leaders across different departments before charting an ILM strategy. Shekhar Dasgupta, President & COO, Solix Technologies talks to Rajendra Chaudhary about ILM

How do you view the adoption of ILM in India?

If we break ILM adoption to the three broad categories of Active Archiving - Database Archiving, File/ HSM Archiving and Email Archiving, then Gartner's assessment of this market worldwide is that we will see mainstream adoption of all three in 5-10 years' time.

The first two, are in the 'technology trigger' phase as per Gartner (Ref: Hype Cycle for Storage Software Technologies, 2006). This being an emerging market worldwide, India will be no different given that both ERP and email are becoming mainstream adoption in India. (read more...)

IBM delays shipment of Global Mirror

September 8, 2006, Computer Weekly

The ship date for IBM's Global Mirror product, an asynchronous replication feature announced as part of SVC 4.1 on May 26, will be delayed two months, IBM said. A limited version of SVC 4.1 was available to customers as early as June 23, but the shipment of the full version was laid out for Sept. 8 specifically in order to fully develop the Global Mirror feature. (read more...)