How Iron Mountain Has Used APEX to Improve Operational Abilities Within the Enterprise

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How Iron Mountain Has Used APEX to Improve Operational Abilities Within the Enterprise

By Chris Veenstra

Uploaded on 29-JUL-08
Iron Mountain has been able to realize significant gains in its operational abilities thanks to Oracle APEX. Using Oracle APEX, Iron Mountain has created a suite of applications that have enabled them to run their business more efficiently and effectively. One application allows Iron Mountain to intelligently plan capacity for over 12,000 tablespaces on a daily and weekly basis. Other reports can monitor the health of database partitions and proactively notify the DBA when a partition is nearing its capacity. Another application is an enterprise-wide RMAN backup reporting capability which tracks the most recent backup data and status of more than 200 instances. The largest of these applications allows Iron Mountain to monitor the status of their Digital Archive business, which averages approximately 2.5 to 5 million e-mail messages per day. Each one of these messages is dispatched to one of 25 production instances and then indexed with Oracle Text. An Oracle APEX interface allows Iron Mountain to query and manage this massive collection of data. Perhaps the most amazing feat of all is that all of these projects were achieved with no additional staff while at the same time, increasing the number of databases!

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