Hi Barbara and Danny,
First, it's always worth restating the value proposition for containerization. I think the top points of value are an increase in agility and flexibility, and ease of installation and deployment.
On to an answer. However, there are a number of Optim Test Data Management (TDM) family products now, plus Archiving/App Retirement/Data Growth.
To go down the list from most recent:
1. Optim Data Privacy for Unstructured: we're starting planning for making this product available on Cloud Pak for Data. It would of course be containerized. There is no delivery date, but as a wild guess I'd look for it in the later part of this year or first half of next.
2. Virtual Data Pipeline: does not run containerized today. Plans for VDP to run in a container are being evaluated regularly, but so far it seems better for this engine that manages lean, near-instant provisioning of data copies to run natively, not in a container.
3. Optim Test Data Orchestrator: already has been run in Docker containers. Similar answer to #1.
4. Optim Test Data Fabrication: already runs in Docker containers, not exactly out of the box, but almost out of the box. Similar answer to # 1.
5. Optim TDM, DP, Archive solutions: already have been run in containers. There are no official product plans today to containerize these Optim components. The roadmap is focused primarily on Optim modernization and on data source support. We should also note that the strategic platform for IBM Data and AI, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, needs Data Privacy capabilities and already provides certain non-Optim DP capabilities. Optim Offering Management is evaluating solution requirements that would be valuable on Cloud Pak for Data. We expect some related plans to be available in Q2 2020.
Peter
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Peter Costigan
Offering Manager, Optim Solutions
IBM
San Jose CA
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Original Message:
Sent: Tue March 03, 2020 09:02 AM
From: Barbara Brown
Subject: Any pans to containerize Optim
Hi All,
Does anyone know if there are any plans to containerize Optim?
Thanks in advance,
Barbara
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Barbara Brown
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ps sorry for the typo in the title!
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