SyncsortÔÇÖs Data Integration Innovations Address Top 2018 Big Data Trends

New Ironstream® for IBM i Product and Advanced Change Data Capture
(CDC) Capabilities Help Solve the Most Compelling Data Lake and Business
Analytics Challenges

PEARL RIVER, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#BigData—Syncsort,
the global leader in Big Iron to Big Data software, today announced two
new additions to its Syncsort
Integrate family of products that help solve top-of-mind challenges
highlighted by IT Practitioners in its annual
Big Data survey. A new product, Ironstream® for IBM i, and greatly
extended enterprise-wide CDC capabilities, help solve key data lake use
cases and support some of the most daunting challenges in leveraging
next-generation analytics.

Syncsort recently surveyed IT professionals working with Big Data across
a wide range of industries about the top challenges their organizations
faced in 2018 as they progress their modern data architecture and data
lake initiatives. Their top areas of concern were moving data and
performing advanced and real-time data analytics. Over 71% of
respondents named the flagship industry data integration process,
Extract, Transform and Load (ETL), as their most compelling data lake
use case. Respondents selected advanced analytics (62%) as the
second-highest priority, with real-time analytics third at 60%.

To help IT tackle these challenges, Syncsort has engineered a new
Ironstream® product that delivers IBM i machine log data in real-time to
Splunk for advanced analytics to support Security Information and Event
Management (SIEM) and IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) initiatives. In
addition, new CDC capabilities help keep data current and accurate
across a wide variety of enterprise sources and targets, in real-time.

ÔÇ£Organizations are under intense pressure to keep data from diverse
sources fresh and in sync with next generation environments like Hadoop,
Spark, Splunk and Elastic for advanced analytics they can trust,ÔÇØ said
Tend├╝ Yo─ƒurt├ºu, CTO, Syncsort. ÔÇ£Our new Ironstream product and resilient
CDC capabilities are designed to help solve these increasingly complex
challenges in a fast, efficient and secure manner, on-premise and in the
cloud.ÔÇØ

Ironstream for IBM i

Organizations are seeking a way to access and integrate IBM i data to
Splunk or other SIEM consoles such as Qradar, ArcSight, SolarWinds and
LogRhythm as part of an enterprise-wide view of security and operational
data. They need access to the data in real-time so they can quickly
identify and resolve problems ÔÇô without requiring IBM i systems
expertise.

To meet these requirements, Syncsort designed Ironstream for IBM i,
taking the same approach in collecting, transforming and forwarding log
data as with its industry-leading Ironstream® software, which forwards
z/OS log data to the Splunk and Elastic platforms. This allows IT to:

• Get a better understanding of and ability to make decisions about the
  IT environment to help deliver IT services without delays or outages
• Investigate security threats, breaches, and ensure compliance
• Provide the best security tools and processes for the organization
• Protect the company from security exposures that could damage the
  brand and the business

New CDC Capabilities

The Big Data survey also revealed that organizations require fresh,
up-to-date data. More than 75% of respondents report having difficulty
keeping their data lake in sync with changing data sources.

Syncsort already offers high-performance data integration capabilities
that include continuous streaming capabilities to make fresh data
available on-demand from disparate, enterprise-wide data sources, both
on-premise and in the cloud. To keep changes to source and target data
in sync, the new CDC capabilities greatly extend supported data sources
and targets. Now, in addition to IBM Db2/z, DMX Change Data Capture adds
IBM i, IBM Informix, Oracle, Oracle RAC, Sybase, Db2 and MS SQL Server
as both sources and targets, VSAM as a source, and HDFS, Hive, Impala,
Teradata, MySQL, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL and Kafka as targets.

Also, across the entire list of data sources and targets, Syncsort
includes the unrivaled ability for resilient data replication so changes
are available in real-time, and canÔÇÖt be lost when there are system or
network failures, especially critical for cloud environments.

The enhanced CDC capabilities allow organizations to:

• Work with the most up-to-date information for downstream analytics
• Save time and resources by designing in a graphical UI with no coding
• Avoid data loss by leveraging reliable, automatic restarts from the
  point where connectivity was lost
• Synchronize mainframe, IBM i, relational databases and other
  distributed data sources with Hadoop or data warehouses, on-premise or
  in the cloud, within seconds

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About Syncsort

Syncsort is the global leader in Big Iron to Big Data software. We
organize data everywhere to keep the world working ÔÇô the same data that
powers machine learning, AI and predictive analytics. We use our decades
of experience so that more than 7,000 customers, including 84 of the
Fortune 100, can quickly extract value from their critical data anytime,
anywhere. Our products provide a simple way to optimize, assure,
integrate, and advance data, helping to solve for the present and
prepare for the future. Learn more at syncsort.com.

Contacts

Media:
SHIFT Communications
Sarah Babbitt, 617-779-1803
[email protected]
or
Syncsort
Incorporated
Michael Kornspan, 201-930-8216
Senior Director,
Corporate Communications
[email protected]