Data is the most important company asset. Databases are critical parts of the applicationinfrastructure. However, they typically use overprovisioned static infrastructure and areheavily burdened with technological debt like:
- overuse of relational databases
- heavily licensed products
- internal inefficiencies (e.g. performance, etc.)
Database Freedom program can help you to reduce the technological debt in several independent yet still related areas as follows:
- move-to-manage (dynamic infrastructure managed services)
- conversion (removal or optimization of license costs e.g. Oracle to PostgreSQL)
- performance optimization (PL SQL and PgSQL optimizations)
- modernization (use purpose-built databases (non-relational DBs), serverless approach or other modern solutions)
Although the most ideal solution is to work on all areas at the same time, a significant benefit
of the program is the fact that you can focus at a given time on only selected areas according
to your needs and possibilities.
What do you get?
- automation and reduction of management overhead
- increased security
- increase resiliency and operational excellence (HA, DR)
- right-sizing and increased performance efficiency
- use right tool for the problem (your use case) (purpose-built dbs)
- substantial operational costs savings
- no more overprovisioning (right sizing, use only what you need) – dynamic usage of resources
Next steps / How to begin?
- individual workload analysis (automated discovery tools in combination with hand-on approach)
- detailed assessment report (including recommendations for migration and conversion options)
- functional DB prototype based on the target design
- evaluation of the solution against defined benchmark (focused on performance optimization)