Case Study: NASA achieves rapid provisioning, massive storage savings and 120 extra days/year availability with Delphix

NASA Benefits from Agile Data

NASA’s Enterprise Applications Competency Center (NEACC) manages more than 50 applications across nine lines of business with a small civil‑servant team and ~300 contractors. Facing reduced budgets and rising user demands, NEACC needed to cut operational costs and improve delivery speed by addressing four key issues: migrating from Unix/Solaris to Linux, faster database refreshes, quicker recovery, and rapid provisioning.

NEACC evaluated and deployed Delphix database virtualization in two weeks; the appliance sits between the RDBMS and storage to serve shared data blocks transparently. Results included zero‑downtime migration of TB+ databases, halved refresh times (yielding ~120 extra days/year of availability), rollback/forward recovery in 10–15 minutes, provisioning in 10–15 minutes (ERP in 1 day, procurement in 30 minutes), and a reduction of the data footprint from 44 TB to 4 TB—cutting storage by ~90% and delivering substantial labor and cost savings.

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