Database Administrators (including Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, and more) are the backbone of a company’s IT infrastructure. They work to improve the performance and accessibility of the company’s database servers. Every company has one or more database servers in its IT environment. Many of these companies leave the care of these database servers to their IT staff, be they systems administrators or help desk employees. However, while excellent at their jobs, these employees don’t have the specialized database knowledge that is often required to solve some performance issues, which may hurt the server’s performance.
Often, the performance problems the database server suffers aren’t visible beyond “the application has gotten slower over the years,” and you assume that’s how things work. However, it isn’t. Applications don’t need to get slower over time. While the IT team that maintains the IT systems can keep the database servers up and running, they don’t have the specialized training to find and resolve the cause of these kinds of performance problems.
Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a team that you could reach out to that would integrate with your existing IT team, work through the performance issues that you may not be aware of, and resolve these issues at a fraction of the cost of a full-time employee? After all, database queries slowing down costs real money, and DCAC can help you resolve those query slowdowns.
Having a part-time database administrator can help save real money as well. Our cloud-based clients can most easily see cost savings from the work that our team is able to do, as the work we have done allows the cloud resources to be called down, resulting in a lower cloud consumption bill. In fact, one of Direct Care Innovations, a long-time client of DCAC, was able to save over $40,000 a month on their cloud consumption bill, and those savings are seen month over month for them. You can read more about that in a case study we published with them.
Being in the cloud isn’t a requirement for savings to be possible; the savings can just be easier to see. Rise Services was another customer who saw real savings with our work with a part-time database administrator. As we were able to tune the systems and improve the processes for Rise Services, payroll processes that used to take four people a week were done by one person in just two hours freeing up those employees to do other tasks, saving the company money in the process. This is just the beginning of the savings that Rise Services was able to realize, there’s more savings documented in the case study.
In both these cases, by using our part time Database Administrator services these companies were able to save more money per month than the services from Denny Cherry & Assocaites Consulting cost. And these savings are recurrent savings that both of these clients are still seeing the savings for years after the work which causing the savings was completed.
Contact our team today to schedule your free consultation to see how our DBA as a Service solution can help your company.
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