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Virtualization
Accelario Data Virtualization Module
Self-provisioned, continuously refreshed, privacy-compliant and low storage footprint
data that meets the demanding needs of agile teams
The Challenge: Keeping up with agile requirements for testing data while minimizing
privacy risks and storage consumption
Modern agile and microservice while privacy requirements call for environments with the latest
practices use short, high- the ability to anonymize data in a production data to support bug
quality releases that generate way that aligns with organizational reproduction can take days, and is
a competitive edge by focusing privacy policies. Moreover, usually dependent on DBAs.
on the needs of the customer. To organizations need to continuously
support agility, teams need ongoing monitor new and existing managed In many cases, multiple teams and
access to their own, autonomous test databases to ensure that team members are forced to use the
test environments loaded with fresh, the data they’re provisioned with same testing environments because
relevant data that integrates with complies with privacy regulations. of time and resource limitations,
their existing CI/CD pipelines. creating personnel clashes and
Existing data copy techniques and other inefficiencies. Increasing
Additionally, agile teams need to be outdated TDM solutions aren’t privacy regulations are also creating
able to quickly and independently suited to the needs of agile teams challenges when it comes to
provision and manage this data, and microservice development. maintaining compliance across all
to prevent it from becoming a Test data often takes too long environments. Moreover, the ability
bottleneck that slows them down. to provision, doesn’t support to restore specific data tables within
Limited storage capacity dictates automation and isn’t refreshed a database to recover data lost due
that cloned databases should frequently enough to satisfy CI/ to human error can be a lengthy,
have a small storage footprint, CD requirements. Refreshing complex days-long process.
The Solution: Self-service virtual environments continuously refreshed with production-
like masked testing data
Accelario Data Virtualization masked VDBs with the ability to without consuming additional
Module’s self-service portal continuously monitor for privacy storage. Easily create test data
generates virtual environments in violations within all managed environments for each QA/Dev
a matter of minutes. Data copies test databases. Accelario team member, so that everyone
are constantly refreshed and also empowers synthetic data has operational independence.
provisioned directly into the CI/ creation capabilities to create Self-service management
CD pipeline so that development, and maintain partial, negative capabilities enable anyone to
integration, bug reproduction path, scaled up and even new provision, refresh, rollback, share
and testing never slow down, and data sets from scratch. and duplicate data.
defects and bugs are kept down
to a minimum. Virtual data environments are Data copies are also used as
set up within minutes and new backup images to instantly
Advanced masking capabilities data versions are easily created restore either a full, or a subset,
enable fast, easy creation of and instantly shared, all this of a database.
The Accelario Advantage
With the Accelario Data Virtualization Module, the DevOps data copy bottleneck is finally eliminated. Teams
autonomously create independent and immutable virtual environments that are easily provisioned, refreshed and
managed in a way that supports modern agile requirements. Overcome complex privacy and testing needs with
advanced native data transformation and masking capabilities.
› High-speed data copy and refresh › Ongoing privacy compliance › Small footprint
Data copies are created with Virtual databases are quickly Virtual data environments don’t
a click of a button and are and easily masked, while consume extra storage.
continuously refreshed. automated, continuous
monitoring ensures that any › Instant recovery
› Independent data provisioning privacy issues that may arise are Data copies are used as backup
and maintenance immediately alerted upon. images to instantly recover
User-friendly, self-service portal either entire or subsets of a
eliminates reliance on IT and › CI/CD automation database.
DevOps to create environments Full support for Restful APIs and
and manage data. plugins support seamless CI/CD
data pipeline integration.
Accelario Solutions w/o data
virtualization
Provision a 10TB test database Minutes Hours
Storage footprint for 10 x 10TB 12 TB 100 TB
test database
Bug reproduction time Click of a button (minutes) DBA dependant (days)
Ability to provide independent test Yes n/a
data environment for each QA/Dev
team member
Simple self-service for Dev, Qa, Yes n/a
Analysts and DevOps
Manage privacy regulations within Native n/a
all managed test databases
Restore a specific table Click of a button (minutes) Days
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