Most of what we see and read about the Delphix Dynamic Data Platform talks about how we can move data around the enterprise and cloud rapidly and securely. A key value driver of the product is the test data management (TDM) capabilities unsurpassed by anything else in the market right now – the ability to provide data fast, secure and everywhere. And a key component that always impresses the students I teach on my Delphix training courses is the self-service features. Handing off control of data to the consumer (the developer, tester, qa’er, data analyst) is a huge paradigm shift from what we’ve been laboriously doing for decades.
It’s not until you drill down further into the features that you begin to realise the many use cases the Dynamic Data Platform can address and often these are what I class as added benefits in addition to the key marketed features. What I mean by that is you may not implement the product based purely on that use case but now you have it you may as well take full advantage of it. The return on investment grows far greater than originally forecast (and the ROI on Delphix is pretty impressive anyway).
As I said, we talk mainly about data but what about the application itself? Development and testing, especially in todays devops world is fast paced and access to up-to-date and relevant data is key. But obviously we also need to work with the application code and often, backwards and forwards on many iterations of the application depending on priorities, resource availability, schedules as so on.
Delphix has a concept of the data pod. What is a data pod?
A data pod is a set of virtual data environments and controls built by the Delphix Dynamic Data Platform and delivered to users for self-service data consumption
Again, it all points towards data but in actual fact a data pod can contain the application too. So we can have all the TDM capability goodness with our application code as well as data. Rapid lightweight provisioning, bookmarking, branching, rewinding, sharing to name a few.
Lets dig in to this and see how it fits together and look at some of the main benefits.
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Matt is a technology consultant with over 20 years experience helping organisations around the world achieve data success using proven and emerging technologies. He is the Principal Consultant and Head Trainer at Kuzo Data.
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