as I said, I don't have a dog in this fight. But I have not seen Delphix
positioned as a backup solution, nor would I recommend purchasing it for that
purpose. There are far too many very good players in that field, such as
Commvault. As I understand it, the cloning capability allows you to bring up
what is in effect a thin provisioned database quickly and easily, which is
their playing field.
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On Apr 23, 2016, at 11:56 AM, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 04/23/2016 12:13 PM, Andrew Kerber wrote:
I don't have a dog in this fight, but frankly Commvault and Delphix are two
different solutions to two different problems. I know of several places that
use both. Commvault is a backup solution, Delphix is a cloning and masking
solution.
Hi Andrew,
Cloning is done by storage snapshots. I reacted because Commvault can do
cloning and does it for supported storage for a long time. Data masking is
something that Commvault doesn't do, that is true.
In the modern world, the notion of what exactly is backup is blurred. I must
say that Oracle has been very slow with adopting snapshots for backup
purposes. IBM, for instance, has ACS (advanced copy services) which does
support taking snapshots. RMAN doesn't support storage snapshots. So,
"traditional" backup solutions like Commvault, NetBackup and TSM are all
doing the same thing as Delphix and ActifIO, when it comes to using storage
snapshots to clone a DB. Of course, as is the case with many modern trends in
the IT, there is a flood of buzzwords: "virtualization", "data as a service"
(my particular favorite) , "infrastructure as a service", "software as a
service" and many more.
Delphix positions itself as a new way of doing backup and has somewhat
privileged position on this list. It is heavily promoted by what I consider a
pure and unadulterated marketing. I didn't react until there was too much of
"Delphix is web-scale" message for my taste on this group.
Regards
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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
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