Delphix and DBmaestro

Editor's Notes

• #5: Growing almost 300% a year Founded in 2008, launched in 2010 Jedidiah Yueh, President and CEO Founded Avamar in 1999, sold to EMC in 2006, VP Product Mgmt at EMC Avamar: >$1B revenue, 150 Employees: HQ in Menlo Park, SF, Boston, DC, London, NY and Atlanta Growing 250% annually – 130+ customers including 100 Fortune1000 Customers
• #8: 80% of outages impacting mission-critical services caused by people and process issues thru 2015, with the majority of those outages (50%+) caused by change/configuration/release integration and hand-off issues (Gartner RAS Core Research Note G00208328 Ronni J. Colville, George Spafford [October 27, 2010] – Strategic Planning Assumption(s) “Top Seven Considerations for Configuration Management for Virtual and Cloud )
• #19: I’m not sure if you have run into these situations at your organization or if you can imagine some of these situations But here are some of the issues we at Delphix are seeing in the industry with the companies we are talking to. Let’s look at the 5 points in more detail
• #20: We talked to Presbyterian Healthcare And they told us that they spend 96% of their QA cycle time building the QA environment And only 4% actually running the QA suite This happens for every QA suite meaning For every dollar spent on QA there was only 4 cents of actual QA value And that 96% cost is infrastructure time and overhead
• #21: Because of the time required to set up QA environments The actual QA tests suites lag behind the end of a sprint or code freeze Meaning that the amount of time that goes by after the introduction of a bug in code and before the bug is found increases And the more time that goes by after the introduction of a bug into the code The more dependent code is written on top of the bug Increasing the amount of code rework required after the bug is finally found In his seminal book that some of you may be familiar with, “Software Engineering Economics”, author Barry Boehm Introduce the computer world to the idea that the longer one delays fixing a bug in the software development life cycle The more expensive it is to to fix that bug and these cost rise exponentially as delays increase
• #22: Not sure if you’ve run into this but I have personally experience the following When I was talking to one development group at Ebay, they Shared a single copy of the production database between the developers on that team. What this sharing of a single copy of production meant, is that whenever a Developer wanted to modified that database, they had to submit their changes to code Review and that code review took 1 to 2 weeks. I don’t know about you, but that kind of delay would stifle my motivation And I have direct experience with the kind of disgruntlement it can cause. When I was last a DBA, all schema changes went through me. It took me about half a day to process schema changes. That delay was too much so it was unilaterally decided by They developers to go to an EAV schema. Or entity attribute value schema Which mean that developers could add new fields without consulting me and without stepping on each others feat. It also mean that SQL code as unreadable and performance was atrocious. Besides creating developer frustration, sharing a database also makes refreshing the data difficult as it takes a while to refresh the full copy And it takes even longer to coordinate a time when everyone stops using the copy to make the refresh All this means is that the copy rarely gets refreshed and the data gets old and unreliable
• #23: To circumvent the problems of sharing a single copy of production Many shops we talk to create subsets. One company we talked to , RBS spends 50% of time copying databases have to subset because not enough storage subsetting process constantly needs fixing modification Now What happens when developers use subsets -- ****** -----
• #25: The biggest and most pervasive problem we see is slow build times. In order to set up an database copy for a development environments Requires submitting a request to management who has to review it Then if the request is granted, it is passed to the DBA who has to coordinate with the Sysadmin who has to coordinate with the storage admin. In such a situation it makes sense that copying a large database would take a long time But even when we talk to someone who uses netapp storage snapshots like Electronics Art and Ariba, they said even using storage snapshot sit took days to weeks get a database clone copy due to the coordination between DBA, sys admin and storage admin At many of the customers we talk to provisioning a database clone copy takes weeks or months. One large global bank quotes us as taking typically 6 months to provision a database clone copy environment. Requirements: self service for app teams Requirements: end-to-end automation Metrics: # people, process, time for delivery So far we have talked about the weight of infrastructure on app delivery. Of course, to control and manage that infrastructure, firms layer on a large set of bureaucratic processes, change control, approvals, procurement, governance, etc etc. So the operational and organizational hurdles then create an even bigger drag on IT and app development. Here’s an example from one banking customer. Once the app developer puts in a request for a new development environment, there’s at least a week long wait for management approvals. Then project DBA work with the sysadmin and storage groups for capacity. If more capacity needs to be allocated, it’s 3 more days. If more needs to be purchased, weeks or months. If a copy of production data is needed, the process needs to wait on a production DBA, who might be busy with production issues. Recovering the database to a specific point in time and configuration can also take days. It is very common for two weeks to pass between a developer request and a ready environment. The process can be repeated for multiple environments, for data refreshes, and for integration across multiple systems. With Delphix, turns stop signs into green lights. Provisioning, refresh, rollback, and data integration happen nearly instantly and do not trigger approvals from production systems or require additional storage. That is why KLA is able to deliver 5 times the output from its SAP teams… Without Delphix, it’s impossible for organizations to implement the level of agile processes they desire. The management of data, and the bureaucracy of data management, slows things down too much.
• #26: Due to the constraints of building clone copy database environments one ends up in the “culture of no” Where developers stop asking for a copy of a production database because the answer is “no” If the developers need to debug an anomaly seen on production or if they need to write a custom module which requires a copy of production they know not to even ask and just give up.
• #27: I’m not sure if you have run into these situations at your organization or if you can imagine some of these situations But here are some of the issues we at Delphix are seeing in the industry with the companies we are talking to. Let’s look at the 5 points in more detail
• #28: In the physical database world, 3 clones take up 3x the storage. In the virtual world 3 clones take up 1/3 the storage thanks to block sharing and compression
• #29: installs an any Intel commodity hardware as a VM supports Oracle 9.2-12c, standard edition, enterprise edition, single instance and RAC on AIX, Sparc, HPUX, LINUX support SQL Server
• #30: EMC, Netapp, Fujitsu, Or newer flash storage like Violin, Pure Storage, Fusion IO etc Recent benchmark with Delphix and Pure Storage showed that a Flash and Delphix solution is an order of magnitude cheaper than spinning disk and more performant
• #31: Delphix does a one time only copy of the source database onto Delphix
• #37: Quote from a customer “Delphix GUI is what Oracle Enterprise Manager would look like if Apple had designed it” Delphix inter face is user friendly, polished and easy to use
• #39: Presbyterian when from 10 hour builds to 10 minute builds Total Investment in Test Environment: $2M/year 10 QA engineers DBA, storage team dedicated to support testing App, Oracle server, storage, backups Restore load competes with backup jobs Requirements: fast data refresh, rollback Data delivery takes 480 out of 500 minute test cycle (4% value) $.04/$1.00 actual testing vs. setup
• #41: For example Stubhub went from 5 copies of production in development to 120 Giving each developer their own copy
• #42: Stubhub estimated a 20% reduction in bugs that made it to production