90%+Reduction in infrastructure footprint | 5 monthsAchieve GDPR compliance | 30%Reduction in operational costs |
Sky Italia's Story
Sky Italia is a leading European media and entertainment company owned by Comcast Corporation. Sky Italia creates award-winning original content, produces major live sporting events, and hosts news and arts programming. The company’s innovative products include smart TVs, an aggregator platform, streaming services, smart home protection and both residential and business broadband.
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The Challenge: A 5-Month GDPR Deadline and Sensitive Data in Non-Production Environments
Achieving GDPR Compliance While Improving Security
Sky Italia was under a tight data privacy compliance deadline. GDPR was set to become operational in May 2018, and Sky Italia had a five-month window to get data within its non-production environments to comply with GDPR. At the same time, Sky Italia needed to improve its data security. In order to keep data safe and secure for all their business critical applications, Sky Italia needed to reorganize their data centers and separate production data and non- production data.
The Solution: Perforce Delphix Masks Production Data for Compliant Development and Testing
At the same time, Sky Italia was operating with inefficient TDM practices. Before adopting Delphix, Sky Italia had been pulling production data into its non-production environments, which exposed the sensitive data. The effort, time, and impact of moving this data from production databases was limiting the company’s ability to refresh development and test environments.
Sky Italia’s data would be refreshed once per year at best prior to adopting Delphix. But sometimes, teams would be forced to use data that was four years old or more. Each refresh process would also halt application teams’ development and testing for a duration of 1-2 months. In that inefficient state, it would take six months to deliver new business capabilities, which impeded Sky Italia’s ability to offer new services to end-users.
Back to topThe Results: GDPR Compliance in 5 Months and a 90%+ Smaller Infrastructure Footprint
As a result of implementing Delphix, Sky Italia achieved the following results:
Ensuring Compliance and Security
- Met GDPR compliance standards in five months, before GDPR became operational
- Completed second project wave seven months later— covering the full perimeter of business critical applications
- Achieved GDPR compliance by masking production data, which provides fully representative yet scrambled data that maintains referential integrity
- Finished non production data relocation and optimization in approximately 3 months, guaranteeing the continuity of development and testing activities.
Increasing Quality & Productivity
- Reduced bugs and outages in application production, improving application quality
- Increased number of development and integrated testing environments
- Improved the speed and quality of software releases
- Enabled multiple parallel go-to-market initiatives
- Accelerated company’s strategic project of providing broadband services
- Enhanced productivity by ensuring more pipelines in parallel with fresh data and enabling parallel test beds to run multiple business initiatives simultaneously
- Condensed infrastructure footprint by over 90%
- Slashed operational costs by 30%
Full Video Transcript
Sky Italia has been working with Delphix for about 8 years. Since the GDPR regulation came out, we addressed the problem of sensitive data by segregating production environments from development and test environments.
Thanks to Delphix, we were able to implement virtualizations that let us mask the data, and so segregate it and make it available to the development and test environments. Working in an Agile DevOps mode, the data is recognized as sensitive and is transformed when it is moved to non-production environments.
Anyone working in the environments has access to data that is completely masked, with no possibility of tracing back to the original data.
This allows us to have new releases and environments that are always refreshed and very similar to production, logging of all these automated transactions, so as to remain compliant. The collaboration with Delphix has always been at the highest level, and Sky is used to working with people who are always at the highest level.
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