Princeton Softech, distributed locally by AST Enterprise Solutions Management (ESM), a business unit of the AST Group, has introduced Archive for Servers Release 4.0 and Archive for DB2 Release 5.0, further establishing its leadership position in the active archiving market.
Active archiving can solve application performance problems by moving infrequently used data from production databases and placing it into an "active" archive, where it is easy to research and selectively restore when needed.
"Mission-critical systems require strong doses of ongoing housecleaning if they are to provide sustained competitive advantage," said Geoff van den Bosch, MD of AST ESM. "Companies are going to be looking to `active archiving` solutions to increase the performance of their databases while controlling maintenance and capacity costs."
"Our customers` databases are growing at an unprecedented rate, with some doubling, even tripling, each year," adds Van den Bosch. "This growth degrades performance and limits the availability of mission-critical applications, frustrating users, reducing productivity and increasing costs. We have been helping customers in OS/390 environments solve this problem with Archive for DB2. With the introduction of Archive for Servers, we are bringing all the power and key features of this mature, proven technology to the client/server world."
Archive for Servers enables AST ESM to offer a complete end-to-end enterprise active archiving solution. This software supports the Oracle, DB2 UDB, SQL Server, Sybase and Informix database management systems. Organisations will be able to remove data from multiple client/server and OS/390 production databases and store it in one or more active archives, referentially intact and complete.
These groundbreaking solutions are particularly well suited for industries that must maintain access to historical data to comply with corporate policy or government regulations including financial services, health care, insurance, manufacturing, utilities and telecommunications.
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In just three years the AST Group has established itself as one of the leading information and communication technology companies on the JSE Securities Exchange.
Its consistent creation of value for shareholders, clients and employees has resulted in a steady increase in monthly revenue to the R100 million-plus mark. AST is now the fourth largest South African IT company by market capitalisation, and is one of the top three in terms of physical infrastructure (mainframes, servers, desktops, and networks under management) and geographical footprint with over 62 physical locations.
Counting almost 90% of the top 100 JSE-listed companies among its clients, the AST Group services mostly large corporate and government clients, but is increasingly offering services to rapidly evolving small and medium enterprises.
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