OuterBay Enterprise Architecture
Scalable, Reliable Platform for Information Lifecycle Management

In most organizations, uncontrolled data growth is not an isolated, departmental situation. It is an enterprise-wide application problem, and as such it calls for an enterprise data management solution. In today's heterogeneous enterprise environments, data resides in multiple applications, databases and platforms. To effectively manage the entire information data management lifecycle, you need more than just a set of standalone tools. You need a software suite based on an integrated enterprise data management platform, and a proven architecture than can scale with your business, accommodate upgrades and maintain or improve user Service Level Agreements.

OuterBay is the only vendor to deliver such an enterprise platform for application data management. Only OuterBay ADM supports enterprise wide application environments, including Oracle, PeopleSoft and custom applications, with monitoring, archiving and subsetting capabilities built on a single, integrated, enterprise architecture.

Every OuterBay solution is built on a single, integrated, meta-data management driven architecture to support the multiple requirements of the enterprise. With the OuterBay Enterprise Architecture, you can:

• Manage the entire data lifecycle within a common runtime environment, including monitoring, live archiving, encapsulated archiving and subsetting. The open, reusable, meta-data management driven architecture greatly reduces the cost of ongoing maintenance.
• Ensure operational effectiveness by acting as a safety net to provide secure, 24 x 7 operations, including recovery and restart, as well as error logging, handling and notification, with no downtime required.
• Support the enterprise across multiple applications, databases, operating systems, platforms, and storage classes. By providing a common technology platform, OuterBay allows you to centrally control your enterprise applications in accordance with corporate standards.

 Used by each module in the OuterBay ADM suite, Enterprise Architecture delivers relia

 bility, stability and performance across all application environments.

• Central Repository: Contains complete knowledge of the application, including data mappings, business constraints and retention policies; generates statistics on data allocation and growth, as well as runtime performance; and maintains job execution logs and error details.
• Job Engine: Platform-independent engine executes all monitoring, archiving and subsetting routines. Open architecture enables users to easily add new tasks and routines.
• Policy Manager: Defines, models and maintains enterprise data retention policies and ensures consistent enforcement.
• Graphical Console: Used to schedule and execute jobs, as well as monitor job execution and runtime parameters.
• Integrated Installer: Provides a single install for the OuterBay Console, ARM, LiveArchive and Encapsulated Archive platform components.
• OEM Branding Support: Enables OuterBay to easily support OEM relationships with partner rebranding of OuterBay products.
• Multibyte Character Support: Allows easy operation in regions using multibyte characters, including Asia Pacific and parts of Europe.
• Integration Adapters: Supports Oracle 10.7, 11, and 11i, PeopleSoft 7.5, 8.0, 8.3, 8.4, and 8.8, and custom applications across the enterprise; Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Informix, and Sybase databases; multiple storage media classes including EMC Centera, ATA, CAS, WORM, and tape; and multiple operating systems including Linux, UNIX, Windows NT, Solaris, and AIX.