About the Presenter

Jack Olson has worked in the commercial software development business for 40 years for such noteable companies as IBM, BMC, Peregrine Systems, Evoke Software and NEON Enterprise Software. His career has mostly consisted of architecting solutions to IT problems in the area of database systems and tools. In addition, he has worked for several other startup companies in recent years as a consultant, advisor, and board member.

Mr. Olson has published two books: “Data Quality: the Accuracy Dimension” in 2003 and “Database Archiving: How to Keep Lots of Data for a Very Long Time” in 2008. He has a BS degree in Mathematics from the Illinois Institute of Technology and an MBA from Northwestern University.

The new Database Information Management Special Interest Group (DIM SIG), dedicated to promoting best practices and market education for database issues such as archive, capacity optimization, and production and test data management, is pleased to sponsor Mr. Olson for this webcast. DIM SIG Chair, Gary Zasman, will Moderate this webcast.

Expert Voices of SNIA!

Title: Identifying Ideal Applications for Database Archiving

Date: May 5, 2009, 2:00pm ET

Presenter: Jack Olson,
President and Founder of SvalTech

Duration: 45 minutes

Summary: This presentation will discuss how to build a business case for adopting database information management practices such as archiving and tiering.

We will begin by discussing how to identify the best candidate applications for archiving and tiering, and move on to reviewing analysis tools used to identify the factors that impact your decision.

Benefits such as relief of operational problems, improved performance, cost savings, and data safety are balanced against such factors as data volatility, retention requirements, accessibility requirements and others. Analysis such as these should be implemented for all database applications to determine whether database archiving is worth the effort.

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