Clearpace Software and DataDirect Technologies Partner on Archive Repository ApplicationSLOUGH, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 2009--
DataDirect
Technologies, the unparalleled leader in data connectivity and
mainframe integration and an operating company of
Progress Software
Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), today announced that archive specialist,
Clearpace Software is using the DataDirect
® OpenAccess™
software development kit (SDK) and runtime software components to enable
standards-based data connectivity to its NParchive product from any
specialized data source or application. Using the custom driver created
with the DataDirect OpenAccess SDK and runtime software components,
Clearpace customers can connect thousands of existing applications to
NParchive making it quick and easy to respond to audit, business and
regulatory inquires against long-term, archived data.
NParchive is an extreme data compression product that enables
organisations to simply store petabytes of historical data in a fraction
of the storage space required for that same data in production
environments – helping organisations reduce storage and operational
costs, secure historical data and simplify information discovery. Since
its release, NParchive has become the optimal destination for inactive
data that resides within production databases, data warehouses or log
files. It compresses data 20 to 60 times, while keeping archived data
online, time-proofed and immutable.
Partnering with DataDirect Technologies allowed Clearpace to avoid the
time and resource draining challenge of managing technology outside of
its core competence while ensuring its customers required no special
tools to query archived data. By using the DataDirect OpenAccess SDK and
runtime software components, NParchive users are provided with
standards-based access to non-standard data. NParchive users can rest
easy knowing their inactive, archived data is readily available for
supporting information discovery requests arising from regulatory
investigations, litigation, internal audits or business analysis.
Tim Waterton, VP Alliances, Clearpace said: “Working with DataDirect
Technologies has enabled us to provide great value to our customers,
helping them achieve long-term retention and retrieval of information
while reducing the cost and complexity of data storage. NParchive is a
stronger platform by enabling archived data to be easily accessed by
existing Business Intelligence or reporting tools including Business
Objects, Crystal Reports, Cognos and Microstrategy.”
The DataDirect OpenAccess SDK and runtime software components enable
software developers and architects to quickly create custom drivers for
any data source within weeks, making proprietary data sources, file
formats or APIs, SQL accessible from ODBC, JDBC™, OLE DB or ADO.NET
compliant applications. The DataDirect OpenAccess SDK can also be used
to add standards-based connectivity on top of an existing SQL engine or
to customize an existing driver. More than 100 ISVs and corporations
have used the DataDirect OpenAccess SDK to achieve standards-based
access to proprietary APIs and data formats quickly and cost effectively.
Terence Cooke, Vice President of International Sales, DataDirect
Technologies commented: “It’s said that for most critical systems 85
percent of data is often inactive. We are delighted to partner with an
innovative company like Clearpace to help companies better manage
storage consumption and costs while maintaining an unimpeachable view of
historical information that can be easily accessed and used as the
business requires.”
About Clearpace
Clearpace Software Ltd is a UK-based software company that provides
database archiving solutions for the long-term retention of structured
data within the enterprise. Clearpace has become a pioneer in the
database archiving market by providing archive stores that are the
optimal destination for inactive data that has been removed from
production systems. The Clearpace NParchive software enables
organisations with large and growing data estates to massively reduce
the cost and complexity of storing historical information while making
archived data easily accessible for regulatory, legal and business
purposes. Using NParchive, companies are able to store as much as 60x
more historical information on commodity hardware. Clearpace serves a
variety of industries, including Financial Services, Telecommunications,
Energy, Utilities, Pharmaceuticals, Retail and the Public Sector. For
more information visit www.clearpace.com.
About DataDirect Technologies
DataDirect Technologies is the software industry’s only comprehensive
provider of software for connecting the world’s most critical business
applications to data and services, running on any platform, using proven
and emerging standards. Developers worldwide depend on DataDirect®
products to connect their applications to an unparalleled range of data
sources using standards-based interfaces such as ODBC, JDBCTM
and ADO.NET, XQuery and SOAP. More than 300 leading independent software
vendors and thousands of enterprises rely on DataDirect Technologies to
simplify and streamline data connectivity for distributed systems and to
reduce the complexity of mainframe integration. DataDirect Technologies
is an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS).
For more information, visit www.datadirect.com.
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Source: DataDirect Technologies
