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Is DBaaS In The Plans For Your Business?

2015-09-17by Adam Groff

Handling database operations is a tricky process even for your business's app development team.

Fortunately, Database-as-a-Service, or DBaaS can help streamline your database and add a level of functionality that provides a number of unique benefits for your growing business.

Here are just a few reasons your app developers and your business should consider DBaaS:

Outsourced Monitoring

Having unlimited access to databases is a must for app developers.

However, many businesses expect their developers to build, manage, and monitor the databases they access, which can take a huge toll on the app development process.

That's why a growing number of businesses just like yours are turning to DBaaS to take some of the strain off their app development teams.

DBaaS outsources the database monitoring and administration process including tuning, optimization, upgrading, patching, back-up and recovery.

With the right DBaaS service, your business can completely automate any and all database administration activities in order to support app development tasks.

With automated database services like this, app developers have more freedom and accessibility, which is hugely beneficial to the development process.

Cost-Effective Computing

From a financial perspective, DBaaS can help save your business money in the technology department. DBaaS is so flexible; it can take full advantage of your business's existing servers and other forms of storage.

This means your business doesn't have to spend money on increased storage or server hardware.

As the following article, “Should your app developers consider DBaaS?” looks at, with the cost savings involved, the answer is a resounding yes.

Database-as-a-Service actually has the ability to repurpose resources that have otherwise been overlooked by system administrators and app developers. Leveraging these resources as opposed to allocating new system resources can save your business a significant amount of money.

App Development

Other than administrators, your app developers spend a lot of time accessing your business's databases. That's why it's so important that their database experience encourages the development process as opposed to hindering and slowing it.

DBaaS not only automates the administration process as mentioned above, it also makes way for lightning-fast provisioning of new, specifically optimized databases.

This allows your app developers, architects, and testers to take advantage of a dedicated app development environment.

 

Security and Administration

Depending on the size of your business, there are likely a number of different security and administration policies your database activities must adhere to.

DBaaS has the ability to meet security and administration standards across multiple databases regardless of hardware platforms and operating systems.

With the right DBaaS service, you can rest assured your business is consistently complying with all security protocol as well as all administration tasks. This frees up compliance monitoring, which also saves your business money.

 

Database Metering

Knowing how much your business uses its databases can provide you with an overall view of your data activities.

DBaaS offers database metering, which tracks everything from time, storage space, resource usage, and server availability by group, department, or the individual user. This can provide your business and your app developers with valuable database insights.

 

From cost-effectiveness to database monitoring and app development, it's plain to see that your business should plan for DBaaS.

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Adam Groff is a freelance writer and creator of content. He writes on a variety of topics including health and technology.

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