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Princeton Softech Expands Enterprise Data Management With Optim 6.3

Posted on: Monday, 2 October 2006, 09:00 CDT

Princeton Softech, the market leader in enterprise data management, today announced the general availability of Optim™, Version 6.3. This release expands intelligent data masking and transformation capabilities to help companies protect confidential data in the often overlooked application development and testing environments. Additionally, Optim now integrates with long-term storage solutions offered by Hitachi, Archivas and Sun Microsystems, adding to the extensive number of storage devices that Optim already supports. This release also offers extended Linux support to help IT organizations improve operational efficiencies and lower infrastructure costs.

As organizations now require valid, yet masked, test data for key types of personally identifiable information, simple data transformation techniques are no longer sufficient to prevent data breaches. Optim's new Data Transformation Library enables generating and propagating valid masked values for social security numbers (SSNs), credit card numbers and email addresses to protect privacy, while ensuring testing accuracy.

Our research estimates that 50% of database information contains confidential or sensitive information requiring organizations to invest in more intelligent database management solutions. In the wake of an increasing number of internal data breaches, protecting data privacy in the application testing and development environments is no longer optional," said Brian Babineau, Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. "In addition, many organizations now require that techniques for de-identifying test data provide valid replacement values to ensure accurate and reliable test results."

New Storage Profiles in Optim 6.3 enable archive processes to save archives directly to Hitachi Data Systems Content Archive Platform/Archivas ArCSan® and Sun StorageTek(TM) 5000 Series NAS Appliance and Compliance Archiving software. The emphasis is on providing more options for saving archives to compliant storage media to satisfy data retention requirements.

"Integrating our storage solutions with Princeton Softech Optim ensures that our clients are investing in proven scalable technology that will help them comply with data retention requirements today and in the years ahead," said Victor Walker, vice president of Disk Storage, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Companies can archive, manage and retain historical data for years or decades on compliant and secure storage media, and keep their business information accessible for audits or discovery requests."

Expanded Linux support in Optim 6.3 helps companies improve operational efficiencies across operating platforms and lowers infrastructure costs. Princeton Softech's Optim Server can now be deployed on the Red Hat® Linux 3.0 AS and the Intel® Itanium® processor, allowing companies to take advantage of additional high-speed processing options.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo, Solaris, StorageTek and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

About Princeton Softech

Princeton Softech (www.princetonsoftech.com) provides enterprise solutions which align application data management with business objectives. Our industry leading Optim™ solution enables organizations to optimize performance, mitigate risks and control costs. Partnered with the market leaders in business technology, we deliver capabilities that scale and support your enterprise - applications, databases and platforms. More than 2,200 companies worldwide -- including nearly half of the Fortune 500 -- rely on Princeton Softech's proven solutions to maximize the business value of their enterprise applications and databases.

Source: Business Wire

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