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For years, CA Test Data Manager was one of the default answers in the test data management category. That context changed when Broadcom acquired CA Technologies in 2018, a deal Broadcom valued at roughly $18.9 billion in equity and one that CA's own legal counsel...

Every release carries risk. A team can test in staging, review the code, and run the deployment pipeline successfully, yet still introduce a regression, broken integration, or unexpected performance issue in production. When that happens, the team needs a reliable way...

Test data creates a significant but often overlooked source of risk. Every time a team creates an environment, copies a production database, or shares a dataset with a vendor, sensitive information spreads further. Without clear governance, data protection becomes...

Most software teams know how to deploy an application. The harder question is whether they can deploy it confidently. A release may pass its functional tests but still create problems in production. An unavailable test environment, unresolved security risk, missing...

For the first time in five years, the average cost of a data breach fell. IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report found that the global average dropped 9% to $4.44 million. The report also ranked encryption among the leading controls for reducing breach costs....

Enterprises depend on realistic data for development, testing, training, and analytics. The challenge is that production data often contains names, account numbers, financial information, and other sensitive details that should not move freely into non-production...

Release managers have to track a lot at once: changes, teams, systems, environment readiness, dependencies, and whether a release is ready for go-live. In large enterprises, that information can be spread across dozens of projects, tools, tickets, and dashboards....

GDPR requires organizations to protect personal data wherever they use it, including in development and testing environments. But teams still need realistic data to build, test, and train effectively. That’s where data masking comes in. It protects sensitive...

It's the normal case with software buzzwords that people focus so much on what something is that they forget what it is not. DevOps is no exception. To truly embrace DevOps and cherish what it is, it's important to comprehend what it isn't. A plethora...

Development and testing teams need current, reliable data. But over time, non-production databases can fall out of sync with production. A database refresh brings them up to date with a newer copy of production data. But it’s not as simple as copying a database. Teams...

Teams need realistic data for development and testing, but production data can create security and compliance risks in non-production environments. Masking replaces sensitive information with safer, usable alternatives. Perforce Delphix Continuous Compliance supports...

In the dynamic world of software development, where speed, precision, and quality are non-negotiable, the effective management of IT and test environments is the linchpin that determines the success of projects. Environments serve as the critical stages...

Enterprise systems store enormous amounts of sensitive information, from customer records to financial data. Protecting that information is critical.  Azure data masking helps organizations secure personally identifiable information (PII) and other regulated...

Modern organizations rely on complex technology ecosystems to support digital services, internal operations, and innovation. Designing and managing those ecosystems requires multiple layers of architectural planning. Two of the most common disciplines involved are...

Before you deploy your code to production, it has to undergo several steps. We often refer to these steps as preproduction. Although you might expect these additional steps to slow down your development process, they help speed up the time to production. When you set...

Development and testing teams need production-like data, but using production data outside production creates security, privacy, and compliance risks. Data obfuscation tools replace sensitive information with realistic, fictional values while preserving the structure...

The software development industry is constantly evolving. And as such, new techniques of creating, releasing, and deploying software solutions are emerging. With the emergence of these new techniques comes new job roles and descriptions never seen before. Ever...

If you're searching for delphix alternatives, you're likely evaluating your test data management strategy. Delphix is widely recognized for data virtualization and masking, but it is not the only option available. As enterprise environments grow more complex and...

Microservices have revolutionized the way modern software systems are designed and developed. Breaking down complex applications into smaller, independently deployable services brings numerous benefits in terms of scalability, flexibility, and maintainability....