What is your primary use case for Delphix?

My day-to-day work involves using Perforce Delphix, where I virtualize many databases with the application. This greatly reduces the amount of time I spend on activities such as restoring databases or performing migrations. My daily routine is focused on using Perforce Delphix to automate and speed up my work. I have a very large database at my current company, where with Perforce Delphix I can update it and have it ready for use by a developer in just one hour. This database is more than 30 terabytes in size, making my work much easier. This activity would take one or two days to update production data to a development environment without the tool. With Perforce Delphix I can accomplish it in an hour. I have many use cases where Perforce Delphix has been very advantageous for my company, not only in terms of being able to virtualize a very large environment in a short time, but also in terms of being able to virtualize several environments. I can deliver an environment for each project to my developer with low operating cost. With just one server, I can have two or three databases virtualized with Perforce Delphix, which greatly facilitates my developer's work. There is also the value gain, as Perforce Delphix provides very significant savings for my current company. We are able to save a lot on storage. I currently have a little more than 30 production environments, where most of them have sensitive data. With Perforce Delphix I can virtualize a single environment for masking. I have Perforce Delphix Masking, where I can run a routine to validate sensitive data with Perforce Delphix itself. It also has several algorithms that can perform this masking, keeping the entire environment consistent and masked for my end user.

We use Perforce Delphix for building algorithms and data masking, as well as continuous data preparation. Data compliance and governance are also monitored through this tool, which is central to my project. We cannot expose data to clients or end users. For example, we have account numbers that are 10-digit unique identifiers, and we mask the first five digits so that only the last five digits remain visible. The masking of the first five digits ensures that the data will always be secure and reliable. Other use cases for Perforce Delphix include handling sensitive fields, which we maintain in an isolated environment. We also maintain Agile development practices, so developers gain instant access to realistic test data. These are some of the examples I have implemented.

My primary use case for Perforce Delphix is test data management. I use Perforce Delphix to provide masked, production-like data to development and testing teams quickly while maintaining data privacy and compliance. I have hands-on experience in data virtualization, data masking, test data provisioning, and self-service capabilities. In my current role, I use Perforce Delphix primarily for test data management. We ingest a production database into Perforce Delphix, mask sensitive data using the masking engine, and provision virtual databases to our development and testing teams. This has helped us reduce storage costs, accelerate environment provisioning, and ensure compliance with data privacy requirements.

My main use case for Perforce Delphix at Dell Technology is to automate refresh, replication, and masking. We have used Hangfire to automate the Perforce Delphix API for migration, data masking, refresh, replication, SnapSync, Snapshot, and Gold VDB. We are using automation for all steps through Hangfire. We are using Perforce Delphix to move main production data to non-prod data for our testing, implementation, and development purposes. We need to mask or encrypt the production data to the non-prod environment, which is a very useful tool we have been using for the last eight years in our project.

My main use case for Perforce Delphix is a split between data de-identification and data virtualization. We have very large databases that we need to create virtual copies of and then de-identify those as test data for offshore compliance. Our databases require a complete certification of data de-identification for offshore compliance so that offshore developers are not working on real or unprotected data.

In my projects, I have used Perforce Delphix mainly for masking and virtualization purposes. I have used the Perforce Delphix virtualization engine to provision virtual VDBs for end-users from different sources such as Oracle, MySQL, and DB2, ingesting them into the Perforce Delphix virtual database engine.

My main use case for Perforce Delphix in my previous organization involved two concerns: we had a huge production database that needed replication for non-production environments with real-time data use cases, addressing both the large amount of data and storage issues, which Perforce Delphix helped us with significantly. One specific project where Perforce Delphix helped with the huge amount of data and storage issues involved replicating large production data for non-production use to run our automated and manual test cases. We created a Perforce Delphix environment to replicate data, allowing us to create multiple non-production environments with the same storage set, where we were running different test cases in parallel, improving performance, coverage, and turnaround time significantly. Additionally, we were able to spin up environments very quickly. Another important aspect we utilized with Perforce Delphix was point-in-time snapshotting, which allowed us to roll back all changes and restore the original state of the replicated data, thus contributing to its effective use.

My main use case for Perforce Delphix is service virtualization and data masking. I started with data masking first; Perforce Delphix is used for static data masking, not dynamic. I used it for our New Zealand Privacy Act 2020 compliance across the non-production environments, and we deployed it with 80% of the stack running on Perforce Delphix data masking capability. On the virtualization side, we deployed virtual VDBs based on Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and Postgres.

My main use case for Perforce Delphix is masking and virtualization. For masking and virtualization, there is a production database where we used to mask so that the actual values do not come into the non-production database. While extracting, masking, and loading, we use Azure Data Factory, and then we use Perforce Delphix inside Azure Data Factory. For virtualization, we make a virtual copy of the production SQL database server and SQL Server database, and then we make the copy from the gold copy. We create the virtualized copy and mask it into the non-prod database.

Perforce Delphix serves as our main solution for continuous compliance, and the intuitive graphical interface simplifies sensitive data discovery and masking governance of the data in our AWS environments. We use it to securely and consistently mask production data before it's copied to non-production environments like Aurora and RDS, benefiting our development and QA teams who provision virtual and physical data copies that support the agile testing we follow, adhering to HIPAA, PCI, and GDPR mandates. The integration of Perforce Delphix has enhanced our daily workflow. Our testing environment has improved significantly, allowing successful automation testing with integrity in Aurora and RDS, and enabling us to provision secure virtual data copies in minutes, which also aids in compliance reporting for regulatory standards.

I worked as a DevOps engineer for a company like Axoft, where I held roles as a system engineer, cybersecurity specialist, and software engineer. I have accumulated almost 10 plus years of experience across different streams, domains, and clients, using various tools. As part of my day-to-day responsibilities, I build, deploy, troubleshoot, and support systems whenever needed. My experience with Perforce tools was primarily related to code check-in. I also handled user management responsibilities, such as providing credentials and repository access to new users joining the company. Initially, I struggled with the check-in process because it was new to me, but after that initial period, I found it straightforward. As part of my role, I learn new tools continuously, and that initial struggle was just part of the learning process. The best features Perforce offers from my experience are user administration and code management. After that initial project, I never received exposure to more Perforce tools and never worked with another client using Perforce. I used it for almost two years on that one project. Previously, I used different solutions before Perforce, which were Subversion and ClearCase. Since my Perforce experience was about 10 years ago and not recent, I felt that Git and Bitbucket were better options in recent times. They are decentralized repositories with options that felt more appropriate, which is why I shared those same preferences with you.

The current use case is to manufacture or generate synthetic data on the fly in different environments.

My company predominantly uses Delphix because, for large data masking in terabytes, we need the kind of engine where it can play very well on an NMVe hard disk. My company also needs a master-slave architecture, like the one offered under big data or Hadoop's framework. Speed and the performance the tool offers are paramount to my company. When I looked at the topological architecture of how Informatica does the data masking, I saw that it is slightly different from the big data framework.

We use the tool to create scenarios for test data. We have different third-party databases that have huge volumes of data.

Our customers use the solution for data visualization and masking.

Our primary use case is synching our continuous updates from the production to our local environment. We regularly create snapshots and we refresh and clone our environment as per our plan, and our schedules.

I never used Delphix, but I was a salesperson for the company. Generally, it's used for data masking and virtualization.

We primarily use the solution for TDM and also for recovery. Some clients are masking the data and some leads. Some are evaluating analytics for moving to the cloud. Also, the DevOps solution generated with Delphix is used quite often.

Delphix is used to distribute confidential data to customers.

My team manages Delphix on site. We are customers and resellers of Delphix.

Our primary use case is cloning databases. We can complete this process in minutes.

Our primary use case is for Test Data Management. Providing high-quality Production like data to all environments.

Our primary use case of this solution is to test virtual databases. We copy data from live databases, encode them, test them and then transform them with CA virtual case databases.

Our primary use case for this solution is for database virtualization.

* Data virtualization with data masking * Finding sensitive data also.