The term "self-service" is a marketing term without much meaning, if any
at all. With Commvault, anyone can clone the database, given the
appropriate privileges. Privileges can be assigned by the Commvault
administrator. Even at a gas station you need a credit card for "self
service". Having a credit card is a privilege and very far from being
universal, at that.
Also, I am not sure that the original topic included marketing of the
products and doing feature by feature comparison. In my opinion, that
part is not appropriate for this group. I also try not to push the
products of my employer through this list. Refraining from marketing
avoids awkward situations like this one. After all, I am a computer
geek, not a sales person.
On 4/25/2016 9:36 AM, Tim Gorman wrote:
Steve Karam, Kyle Hailey, and I are contributors to this list who are also employees of Delphix.
Back to the original topic, would you explain what "self-service capability" means?
On 4/25/16 05:51, Mladen Gogala wrote:
On 04/24/2016 11:18 PM, Tim Gorman wrote:
Assuming a definition of "self-service capability" as "management of a separation of duties", that sounds like a "no" for CommVault.
Only if you are adopting extremely simplistic interpretation, to the point of silliness.
Tim, I am a Commvault employee. Are you by any chance a Delphix reseller or are you making money by pushing Delphix?
In contrast, Oracle Snapclone provides self-service provisioning through a service catalog of templates <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oem/cloud-mgmt/em-snapclone-2267372.html>, and different accounts have a separation of duties (i.e. some accounts can create templates, other accounts can only clone from templates, etc), but there are others on this list who can explain this much more capably than I.
As far as Delphix is concerned, its main user-interface enables DBAs to do everything, but the Delphix JetStream <https://docs.delphix.com/display/DOCS41/Getting+Started+with+Jet+Stream> user-interface is provided to be used by developers, QA testers, project leads, and other non-DBAs to manage what has already been provisioned.
Regards
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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
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