WHITE PAPER A Modern Database for Proactive Data Management: TransLattice Elastic Database (TED) A Modern Database for Proactive Data Management: TransLattice Elastic Database (TED) White Paper Introduction Businesses today face more challenges than ever before in maintaining correct business and customer information. Mergers and acquisitions make maintaining accurate and complete data an expensive and time-consuming activity. Today’s emphasis on regulatory compliance forces many global businesses to maintain data silos in various jurisdictions. Data virtualization, data federation, or other means are then employed to get a 360-degree view of their business. When changes occur, they must ripple through the various layers of data infrastructure. Master data management solutions are often employed to help ensure data accuracy. All this is time-consuming, can lead to costly mistakes, and customer dissatisfaction. And scaling these systems can be a daunting task. New approaches in data management can greatly simplify and streamline these challenges. A Revolutionary Approach TransLattice Elastic Database (TED) provides a dramatically different approach to data management. TED is the world’s !rst geographically distributed relational database management system (RDBMS) that incorporates data compliance capabilities directly in the database. TED is designed to support enterprise business applications such as ERP, SCM, and CRM systems. It provides all the transactional and ACID guarantees expected in a traditional SQL database. However, nodes can be placed thousands of miles apart, over standard Internet connections, anywhere you have business presence. These nodes form a high-performance computing fabric built from all-active commodity servers, cloud instances, and/or virtual machines, called a cluster. Policy-driven Data Placement Data policies can be de!ned to ensure that sensitive data or other data subject to local governance restrictions is stored only in permissible locations. Data on any node can be visible from all nodes. Updates to information made in India are immediately visible in New York. Personally Identi!able Information (PII) data safely stored on nodes in the European Union is continually available to your billing systems in Atlanta. A A C C B C Policy PII data cannot Publicly available Certain data on A leave the EU B data OK for cloud C 3 continents TED ensures that data remains available and organizations remain in compliance with data jurisdiction regulations. 2 A Modern Database for Proactive Data Management: TransLattice Elastic Database (TED) White Paper TED is designed to give organizations peace of mind. Data is split into small segments and automatically stored redundantly across multiple nodes in the system. If a node is lost due to hardware or network failure, the data remains available from other nodes within the cluster. Administrators can control the level of redundancy to ensure availability. Policy controls also allow administrators to direct data placement to improve performance. For example, policies can dictate that records associated with customers on the West Coast be stored on nodes on the West Coast. This reduces network traf!c and improves the end user experience for users accessing the data. Additional copies can be maintained automatically in Atlanta nodes to ensure the billing systems run at peak performance. Changes made on any node are immediately re"ected and available by querying any node in the cluster. There is no need to reconcile data differences between East Coast systems and West Coast systems because the system appears to all users as a single system. Proactive Cloud Data Location Control Policy controls also give peace of mind in the cloud. Leveraging the cloud is a great way to get burst capacity fast. But with traditional systems, it’s not that easy. TransLattice changes that. Cloud nodes can be added to an existing cluster in minutes, providing additional processing capacity and immediate visibility to existing data sets. Policy controls can be used to control just which data can or cannot be stored in cloud nodes giving business the con!dence to move boldly into the cloud. The ability to add nodes in minutes, whether cloud, virtual machine, or appliances, makes scaling systems a turnkey operation. Conclusion Both large and small organizations must face the complex challenges of regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and scaling data systems in order to keep pace with their growth. The TransLattice Elastic Database is a new and innovative approach to proactive data management. TED is designed to help organizations simplify compliance issues, eliminate costly master data management and data virtualization processes, take advantage of cloud computing, and transform the scaling of business systems from torture to a turn-key operation. Corporate Headquarters: TransLattice, Inc. | 2900 Gordon Avenue, Santa Clara, CA | phone: (408) 749-8478 email: [email protected] | translattice.com © 2013 TransLattice, Inc. All Rights Reserved. TransLattice and the TransLattice logo are property of TransLattice, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Part # 9800-0101-01 3.