Ensuring efficient and effective operations across multiple databases is critical to maintaining business continuity and performance.
The database is the backbone of the enterprise. Data is the currency of modern business, and organizations need to ensure consistent, optimal database performance to keep their business running smoothly. The consequences of compromised or even suboptimal database performance can be significant; including delays in responses to customer inquiries, sales processes, and transaction processing.
To ensure adequate transactional capacity, most enterprises have adopted a multi-database strategy—using several different database platforms to store different classes or categories of data. So, there’s been a surge in the number of databases in use at most organizations, with database managers increasingly responsible for numerous instances. A survey by Unisphere Research revealed:
- 72% of database managers are responsible for an increasing number of databases
- 69% of database managers consider performance their most important responsibility
- 64% say the cloud is having a major impact on their role