Perforce Delphix Demo: Provisioning Point-in-Time Data for Faster Recovery

Overview: Instant Data Recovery with Point-in-Time Provisioning

Unplanned incidents, whether due to data corruption or faulty code deployments, can lead to costly downtime and operational risk. Perforce Delphix empowers organizations to instantly recover data by provisioning point-in-time environments within minutes, eliminating the delays and complexity of traditional backup and restore methods.

With Delphix point-in-time provisioning, enterprises can:

• Enable Instant, Granular Recovery: Effortlessly provision a new environment from any exact moment before an incident occurred. Fast, targeted recovery minimizes downtime and ensures your most critical applications remain consistently available.
• Accelerate Incident Response and Hotfix Deployment: Spin up isolated, virtualized hotfix environments in just minutes. Empower development and QA teams to diagnose, validate, and deploy fixes rapidly, without impacting ongoing operations or waiting for time-consuming restores.
• Reduce Infrastructure Overhead: Delphix leverages data virtualization technology, allowing teams to maintain lightweight, non-disruptive test and recovery environments. This approach reduces infrastructure waste while supporting scalable, modern development practices.

Key Outcomes

• Decrease Business Risk: Restore business-critical data quickly and safely, minimizing exposure and preserving revenue.
• Drive Productivity: Eliminate delays in development, enabling teams to deliver validated solutions faster.
• Optimize Resources: Enhance efficiency by reducing dependency on bulky backup storage and manual processes.

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Full Transcript

Hi, my name is Ajay Thotangare. I'm a solutions engineer at Perforce.

Today, I will walk you through how Perforce Delphix enables organizations to provision data at any point in time in minutes, whether it's for recovery from an incident or to spin up a new hotfix environment.

Traditionally, if there is a data corruption, bad code deployment, or a critical bug, teams rely on backups for recovery. Restoring from backup is slow, resource intensive, and often disruptive to production. Legacy backup and restore processes result in poor RPO and poor RTO. You either lose data or you wait for hours — sometimes days — to get an environment back online.

Delphix changes this story.

We continuously capture changes from production, creating a time machine of data that provides granular recovery points. With just a few clicks, you can provision a virtual environment from the exact moment before an incident occurred. Instead of waiting for hours, you can provision a clean environment in minutes for recovery or for hotfix testing. This means near-zero data loss, superior RPO, instant recovery, and superior RTO.

In this demo, I will show how Delphix helps organizations recover instantly from production incidents — whether it's a dropped table, corrupted data, or production errors — by provisioning point-in-time environments in minutes.

On this host, I'm going to provision a hotfix environment. Here, you see the existing databases running on this host. I will be creating a hotfix environment on this host. Now, I will log in with my credentials to the Delphix platform. After a successful login, the connection library gives me a centralized view of every data connection available.

Moving into the data section. This is where Delphix centralizes all connected data sources. Let's focus on SuiteCRM, for which we will create a hotfix environment. Here is the status of the SQL Server database. It's running and healthy.

The timeline view gives me a time machine of data. Every moment is continuously captured. Imagine a production incident occurred on August 31 at 4:32 p.m. I want to create a hotfix environment from exactly 4:31 p.m., just before the incident occurred. From the VDB section, I will provision a new environment from the exact point in time. I select the source of my hotfix environment. It lists all the moments of my source database.

This interface allows me to specify the exact timestamp for my hotfix environment. Here, August 31, 4:31 p.m.

I will provide a name for my database and proceed further by completing the wizard. This begins the provisioning process. In just a couple of minutes, a new hotfix environment is created. No manual intervention is required. This can also be done using REST APIs, integrating with CI/CD pipelines or any in-house orchestration tool. No additional storage is required.

Now, let's check the status of the database. It looks healthy and online. Let's validate from the database ID.

There it is.

The hotfix environment is available online — identical to production, with all metadata and data available for immediate use.

Thank you. So, what does this mean for businesses?

First, instant recovery minimizes downtime and risks and keeps your most critical applications available.

Second, with hotfix environments available in minutes, teams can isolate issues quickly and push validated fixes into production much faster.

Third, because these environments are non-disruptive and lightweight, you avoid any impact on production and dramatically reduce infrastructure waste.

Delphix transforms recovery and hotfix workflows, turning what was once a liability into a true competitive advantage.

Provision the past, accelerate the future. That's the Delphix advantage. Thank you.