The exponential growth of worldwide data volume over the past several years has produced a variety of new challenges for enterprises seeking to obtain actionable insights from the data they gather. Storing enterprise data in a variety of formats has concentrated that data within silos, which limits data’s strategic value and makes it difficult to leverage for analytical purposes. At the same time, an ever-increasing list of data privacy regulations across the world — such as GDPR, HIPAA, GLBA, and PCI — holds organizations accountable to data security standards and threatens them with significant fines and penalties for non-compliance.
Unlocking data’s full strategic value requires that data to be movable, dynamic, secure, and compliant. Yet achieving ready, efficient data access while also ensuring that this data is compliant and secure has traditionally been a tough balancing act for enterprises to maintain.
Delphix is pleased to partner with Microsoft to help our shared customers accelerate compliance and security value creation from their data assets on the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform. Using Delphix in conjunction with Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform makes the delivery of on-demand, compliant data easy for all stakeholders.
“Microsoft’s commitment to working with partners and customers is helping drive digital transformation for people, organizations and industries around the world,” said Jedidiah Yueh, Delphix Founder and CEO. “Delphix believes that adding our value of automated data masking to Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform’s broad range of data flows ensures security and governance across a customer’s organization, simplifying data consumption and reducing data friction.”
“Companies like Delphix add value by integrating their solutions with Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform,” said Faisal Mohamood, Vice President - Azure Data, at Microsoft. “The deep product integration with Delphix is the exact type of technological solution that ensures data engineers are in the best position to quickly move data between sources and targets while easily ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations across the world.”
The Compliance Value that Delphix Adds to Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform
In order to be fully utilized, enterprise data must be manipulated into a common format. From there, extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines must be adapted to each system of record while also scaling to support the massive data sets of modern enterprises. Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform solutions for data pipelines such as Azure Synapse Pipelines and Azure Data Factory streamline these tasks by providing code-free ETL and enterprise-wide connectivity within rich visual experiences.
When sensitive data is moved from systems of record, however, it must be made compliant without impacting the business value of the data set. This process can be slow and complex— it often requires involvement from a professional with specialized knowledge, and it can take time for enterprises to ensure that their data is compliant with however many data privacy regulations to which they are held accountable. This can force enterprises to slow down their data delivery processes, creating a bottleneck of data.
Delphix solves these issues with a fast, automated, API-driven way to provide secure data where it is needed in organizations. More specifically, Delphix identifies sensitive information across an enterprise and automates data masking wherever that data resides.
Data masking protects sensitive data by irreversibly replacing original, real data values with fictitious but realistic equivalents that maintain referential integrity. Delphix can also mask data consistently across data sources— the name “James” could be consistently masked to “William,” or an address in Redmond, WA, could be consistently masked to a single address in Bellevue, WA, whether James and his address appear in SAP, Oracle, or Salesforce. Data masking not only eliminates the risk of personal data exposure, it also maintains compliance with virtually all data privacy regulations without impacting the data set’s business value.
How Delphix and Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform Solutions Work Together
When used together, Delphix and Intelligent Data Platform combine robust compliance and automation offerings to easily streamline the delivery of on-demand, compliant data. Microsoft Azure ETL solutions solve for broad connectivity for data integration at enterprise scale, while Delphix bridges ETL compliance gaps. This averts data silos by facilitating efficient movement of data across an enterprise while quickly ensuring compliance along the way.
In practice, Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform and ADF customers will be able to use Delphix to profile and create masked copies of data via ADF’s connectors. Delphix will also allow end users to automatically move compliant data from sources like SAP, Salesforce, and Oracle EBS to high-value service layers, like Microsoft Synapse.
This presents a variety of potential use cases for Delphix and Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform customers, such as:
Safely activating Azure Data Services for industry-specific solutions
Solving complex regulatory compliance issues for data
Accelerating the “DevSecOps” shift left
Reducing AI/ML algorithm training time with compliant analytics
To learn more about how Intelligent Data Platform and Delphix can transform your enterprise data operations, read the Data Obfuscation on Azure Using Delphix and Azure Data Factory white paper.
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