Database archiving with Chronos reduces storage costs at automotive manufacturer
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Database archiving with Chronos reduces storage costs at automotive manufacturer CSP realized automated and compliance-consistent long-term archiving at BMW Group saved each year in the database. 65 gigabytes To reduce their storage costs, BMW Group em- chiving solution. A conservative cost consider- ploys the Chronos solution from CSP GmbH & ation of a few Euro per month per gigabyte and Co. KG. Chronos archives the data of an Oracle allowing for additional storage space reduc- database at BMW thereby facilitating the se- tion in the index and backup area show that cure filing of data from the production depart- enormous savings can be achieved here. ment that must be kept available during the Chronos integrated very well into the existing runtime of a vehicle model of approximately eight years. The high amount of data gener- a result, no technical and only a few organisa- ated in the production area had led to an enor- tional adjustments were necessary. Access to mous growth of the database before an ar- the archived data by the staff is quickly and chiving solution was introduced. This had led to easily possible at any time. This access is es- a drastic cost increase and also, the perfor- pecially facilitated by an integrated search mance of the database was more and more have already been saved since utilising the ar- affected. With Chronos, BWM Group archives its data at monthly intervals. Thanks to the simple and unsophisticated archiving tool for large data volumes BMW is in- Simply taking a look at Chronos Archiving of dependent of current and future database process data in the plant division of BWM versions and also from applications. When the Group shows how the implementation of the solution was implemented, Oracle version 8 solution already pays off with a low data vol- was first used; upgrading to the Oracle 10 da- ume. Approximately 3.75 million data records tabase is planned for the future. Chronos au- are stored here per month which corresponds tomatically takes this lifecycle into account to a volume of roughly 125 MB in the archive. and presents the data uniformly in each case Roughly 20 gigabytes of storage volume is

when displaying it to the staff member. An- quick access actions. Utilizing Chronos there- other plus of the solution and, at the same time, fore pays off within a very short time." significant expectation of BMW on the product, is the uncomplicated data access: If required, archived data is optionally made available via re-import into the productive system or by email delivery of search results directly from the archive. The producer, CSP GmbH & Co. KG from Großköllnbach, supports BMW Group with professional user support for Chronos as well as individual adjustments to the databases. Of...