Dell Software Extends SharePlex to optimize data integration and analysis

SharePlex 8.0 expands its heritage as a leading Oracle-to-Oracle data replication solution and now it enables users to capture and deliver Oracle changed data to a variety of leading structured and unstructured databases.

Dell Software has evolved SharePlex to respond to the ongoing proliferation of structured and unstructured databases, which continues to add complexity to the information management landscape.

SharePlex has been expanded beyond its traditional role as an Oracle-to-Oracle replication solution in order to help customers keep up with the demands of managing increasingly diverse database environments, Dell Software announced.

“For 15 years, our customers have depended on SharePlex to manage mission-critical transactional data in Oracle.  Now, our customers can replicate, integrate and analyze that data using the rest and best of their database and data warehousing environment,” said Matthew Johnston, managing director for South Asia, Dell Software.

“The evolution of SharePlex with version 8.0 represents another significant step in Dell Software’s commitment to deliver the flexibility and simplicity required to support an increasingly complex information management landscape.”

SharePlex 8.0 now enables customers to replicate Oracle data using Change Data Capture (CDC) to a variety of other databases, including leading structured databases such as SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, Netezza, and Teradata, as well as emerging unstructured databases such as Hadoop and Greenplum.

With today’s global 24/7 operations requiring continuously up-to-date data, the new release of SharePlex replaces traditional data extraction with CDC, in which only data that has changed in the data sources is moved to the transfer and load components of the data aggregation process, Dell Software said.

SharePlese now also facilitates better business intelligence and analytics by ensuring that only the most recent, most relevant data is analysed. 

In keeping with its legacy as a leading solution for Oracle high availability, SharePlex also offers new support for Oracle advanced security features including Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), and Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC), which provides extended Oracle compression on Exadata platforms. TDE enables organizations to protect sensitive data by encrypting it, while HCC addresses expensive Exadata storage costs by enabling organizations to store more data on faster disks to maximize storage space and performance.

SharePlex 8.0 is available with perpetual and flexible term licensing for Oracle Enterprise Edition, as well as cost-effective pricing for Oracle Standard Edition.