Most vendors in the database archiving market leverage their archiving technology to provide tools for data subsetting, usually with data masking. These subsetting options speed the process and reduce the amount of data included in copies of the production database used for activities such as testing. The data masking helps meet regulatory requirements for data privacy.
Based on total number of database-archiving customers as of year end 2007, IBM is the leading vendor, with 45.5% of the market. With the acquisition of Princeton Softech in 2007, IBM joined its mainframe database-archiving business with Princeton’s mainframe and distributed system solution.
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