Companies have long used relational database management systems (RDBMS) to power their mission-critical applications. However, these systems have proven to be cumbersome to manage as more and more applications with database back-ends are deployed. They can’t automatically scale their resources in response to varying workload demands, licensing costs continue to escalate, and ongoing administration including monitoring, backups, and event remediation is onerous.
CirrusDB provides cloud database and business intelligence services that help companies reduce costs and improve flexibility. Their offerings include managed database services, cloud databases, pre-configured appliances, and professional services. CirrusDB integrates multiple cloud platforms through their Cirrus Enterprise Manager product and claims advantages in scalability, virtualization, and clustering.
The document discusses consolidating databases onto private clouds. Key benefits include reduced costs through increased efficiency and utilization, reduced complexity by standardizing configurations, improved quality of service through centralized management and monitoring, and improved agility allowing faster deployment and provisioning of resources. Private clouds are preferable to public clouds as they allow for control over quality of service levels and security of data within corporate networks and governance regulations. Oracle Database 11g can be successfully consolidated onto private clouds through different deployment models.
The document describes the Anaeko Data Agility Server (A-DAS), which addresses the challenge of consolidating access to multiple incompatible data sources. A-DAS enables unified views of disparate structured and unstructured data without changing the underlying sources. It uses a light-touch approach to integrate new sources easily and adapt flexibly to changes. A-DAS provides real-time, standardized access to data through RESTful interfaces for applications like data services, reporting, and master data management.
The document discusses the shift towards more design-driven and innovative data center solutions as enterprises turn to cloud computing to accelerate business innovation and contain costs. It notes that data from a growing number of sources is pouring into data centers, requiring more flexible architectures to handle diverse and real-time workloads. It outlines some of the key challenges with traditional hierarchical data center designs in supporting modern requirements around server-to-server communications, performance, security and availability. Finally, it discusses emerging trends like data center consolidation, virtualization, new application models, and the need for low-latency, high-performance networks optimized for the cloud.
Whitepaper Server Virtualisation And Storage ManagementAlan McSweeney
This document discusses how optimizing storage management can provide greater benefits from server virtualization. It describes how implementing server virtualization using technologies like VMware can improve server utilization, provisioning times, resilience, and costs. However, additional planning and investment in storage is needed to fully realize benefits like faster backup and recovery, application protection, and business continuity. Features of the IBM N Series storage system like FlexVol, FlexClone, snapshots, SnapMirror, and RAID Double Parity make it well-suited for virtualized server environments by providing high performance, instant backups, thin provisioning, disaster recovery, flexibility and efficient virtual machine cloning.
This document provides an overview of IaaS cloud architectures, including virtualized data centers and federated cloud infrastructures. It discusses key components of cloud architectures like the cloud operating system (OS), which orchestrates deployment of virtual resources and manages physical and virtual infrastructures. The cloud OS provides interfaces for users and administrators and incorporates components like a virtual machine manager, network manager, storage manager, and federation manager to enable access to remote cloud infrastructures.
The document discusses Software-Defined Storage (SDS), which virtualizes storage such that users can access and control it through a software interface independent of the physical storage devices. SDS has advantages over traditional network storage systems like SAN and NAS in that it has lower costs, greater flexibility and agility, better resource utilization, and higher storage capacity. It divides storage functionality into a control plane that manages virtualized resources through policies, and a data plane that processes and stores data.
Change Manager‘s database comparison, alter, and synchronization capabilities enabled DBA Consulting to generate reports and reconcile differences between the different versions of the databases, tables, schemas, and other database objects.
CirrusDB provides cloud database and business intelligence services that help companies reduce costs and improve flexibility. Their offerings include managed database services, cloud databases, pre-configured appliances, and professional services. CirrusDB integrates multiple cloud platforms through their Cirrus Enterprise Manager product and claims advantages in scalability, virtualization, and clustering.
The document discusses consolidating databases onto private clouds. Key benefits include reduced costs through increased efficiency and utilization, reduced complexity by standardizing configurations, improved quality of service through centralized management and monitoring, and improved agility allowing faster deployment and provisioning of resources. Private clouds are preferable to public clouds as they allow for control over quality of service levels and security of data within corporate networks and governance regulations. Oracle Database 11g can be successfully consolidated onto private clouds through different deployment models.
The document describes the Anaeko Data Agility Server (A-DAS), which addresses the challenge of consolidating access to multiple incompatible data sources. A-DAS enables unified views of disparate structured and unstructured data without changing the underlying sources. It uses a light-touch approach to integrate new sources easily and adapt flexibly to changes. A-DAS provides real-time, standardized access to data through RESTful interfaces for applications like data services, reporting, and master data management.
The document discusses the shift towards more design-driven and innovative data center solutions as enterprises turn to cloud computing to accelerate business innovation and contain costs. It notes that data from a growing number of sources is pouring into data centers, requiring more flexible architectures to handle diverse and real-time workloads. It outlines some of the key challenges with traditional hierarchical data center designs in supporting modern requirements around server-to-server communications, performance, security and availability. Finally, it discusses emerging trends like data center consolidation, virtualization, new application models, and the need for low-latency, high-performance networks optimized for the cloud.
Whitepaper Server Virtualisation And Storage ManagementAlan McSweeney
This document discusses how optimizing storage management can provide greater benefits from server virtualization. It describes how implementing server virtualization using technologies like VMware can improve server utilization, provisioning times, resilience, and costs. However, additional planning and investment in storage is needed to fully realize benefits like faster backup and recovery, application protection, and business continuity. Features of the IBM N Series storage system like FlexVol, FlexClone, snapshots, SnapMirror, and RAID Double Parity make it well-suited for virtualized server environments by providing high performance, instant backups, thin provisioning, disaster recovery, flexibility and efficient virtual machine cloning.
This document provides an overview of IaaS cloud architectures, including virtualized data centers and federated cloud infrastructures. It discusses key components of cloud architectures like the cloud operating system (OS), which orchestrates deployment of virtual resources and manages physical and virtual infrastructures. The cloud OS provides interfaces for users and administrators and incorporates components like a virtual machine manager, network manager, storage manager, and federation manager to enable access to remote cloud infrastructures.
The document discusses Software-Defined Storage (SDS), which virtualizes storage such that users can access and control it through a software interface independent of the physical storage devices. SDS has advantages over traditional network storage systems like SAN and NAS in that it has lower costs, greater flexibility and agility, better resource utilization, and higher storage capacity. It divides storage functionality into a control plane that manages virtualized resources through policies, and a data plane that processes and stores data.
Change Manager‘s database comparison, alter, and synchronization capabilities enabled DBA Consulting to generate reports and reconcile differences between the different versions of the databases, tables, schemas, and other database objects.
The Delphix Agile Data Platform accelerates business projects by quickly providing teams the right application and database copies. It uses a "DataVisor" to virtualize storage and share data blocks, eliminating 90% of storage usage. Teams can create unlimited virtual copies of databases, applications, and files in minutes. This allows projects to be completed faster and within budget by streamlining development, testing, and other processes.
Optimize your virtualization_efforts_with_a_blade_infrastructureMartín Ríos
The document discusses the benefits of using a converged and intelligent blade-based infrastructure to optimize virtualization efforts. Key points include:
- Blade servers allow for high-density deployments that support the high performance workloads of virtualized environments. Embedded intelligence in blades can automate management tasks and provide alerts to improve uptime.
- A tightly integrated blade solution with automated storage and network management can simplify tasks like workload migration and optimizing resource utilization across infrastructure components.
- HP offers blade server solutions that leverage built-in intelligence to maximize efficiency of virtualized environments through features like automated monitoring and updating.
This presentation educates you about Cloud Computing, Cloud computing services and in it SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service), IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), Types of cloud computing and Cloud security.
For more topics stay tuned with Learnbay.
Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphereHitachi Vantara
Relentless trends of increasing data center complexity
and massive data growth have companies seeking new,
reliable ways to deliver IT services in an on-demand,
rapid, flexible and scalable fashion. Many data centers
now face growing demands for faster delivery of
business services, serious resource contentions and
trade-offs between IT agility and vendor lock-in. They
also have mounting complications and rising costs in
managing disparate islands of technology resources.
Cloud computing allows users to access a shared pool of configurable computing resources over a network. It provides on-demand, scalable access to resources without requiring users to manage physical servers or storage. The document discusses key cloud computing concepts like Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), virtualization, load balancing, and examples of cloud platforms like Google App Engine.
The document summarizes the findings of a proof of concept (POC) that tested adding compute resources to storage arrays and solutions in order to create more efficient and cost-effective storage. Key findings include:
1) Adding CPU cores and RAM to storage controllers and solutions through virtualization can reduce storage consumption by up to two-thirds and improve performance and resiliency.
2) Compute-intensive solutions that leverage data deduplication and compression in software delivered significant space savings and faster rebuild times compared to hardware-based solutions.
3) The POC validated that adding compute to storage follows the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider's business model of self-service and delivers efficient primary
Covers the problems of achieving scalability in server farm environments and how distributed data grids provide in-memory storage and boost performance. Includes summary of ScaleOut Software product offerings including ScaleOut State Server and Grid Computing Edition.
Advantages of Mainframe Replication With Hitachi VSPHitachi Vantara
Learn how Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform mainframe replication capabilities can address your business continuity and disaster recovery requirements. Also learn how Brocade switches and directors complement HDS mainframe replication capabilities and add value to HDS solutions. By viewing this webcast, you’ll learn: Trends driving changes to business continuity requirements, and how HDS replication products such as Hitachi Universal Replicator and hyperswap integration capabilities with Hitachi Business Continuity Manager are best positioned to address them. The key features and functions of Brocade FCIP switches and Fibre Channel/FICON director inter-data center connectivity that provide additional value to HDS replication solutions. Examples of how companies have implemented complete HDS solutions to solve their mainframe BC and DR needs. For more information on our mainframe solutions please read: http://www.hds.com/solutions/infrastructure/mainframe/?WT.ac=us_mg_sol_mnfr
Project Presentation. Gives a good overview of the various software defined technologies and quality attributes. I am looking for sales jobs at high tech companies. My profile is on LinkedIn if you need to contact me. I appreciate feedback and comments on this presentation.
Zahid Ayub is a senior database administrator with over 14 years of experience managing SQL Server and Oracle databases. He has extensive experience designing and implementing database solutions, including high availability, backup/recovery, and replication. Currently he works as a senior database technical architect for Secure-IT in the UK, where his responsibilities include Oracle database migrations and implementing centralized monitoring.
Improved Efficiency through Workload Optimisationianmasters
Improving company efficiency through a dynamic infrastructure and workload optimisation. Reduce downtime associated with migrations, maintenance or unplanned events. Centralise backup procedures, perform more reliable recoveries, recover to any-point-time, and flexibly run your server and desktop infrastrucure from centralised images.
VMware provides virtualization software that allows guest operating systems to run on virtual machines. This makes virtual machines highly portable between physical computers. Administrators can pause, move, or copy virtual machines. Virtualization treats hardware as a pool of resources available on demand. VMware was founded in 1999 and initially developed virtualization in the 1960s for mainframe computers. It offers two types of hypervisors - Type 1 is a bare metal hypervisor directly on hardware while Type 2 is hosted on a traditional operating system. VMware helps enterprises consolidate servers, provision applications quickly, isolate workloads, enable disaster recovery, and reduce costs. Welch's Foods case study showed VMware helped save over $100,000 by migrating servers to
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 is the preferred choice over any other blade or rack server platform on the market today, presenting a unique combination of built-in virtualization, massive I/O bandwidth, large memory capacity, browser-based point-and-click management, and unprecedented configuration flexibility for companies of all types and sizes.
Powering the Creation of Great Work Solution ProfileHitachi Vantara
Hitachi Data Systems provides scalable storage solutions to power digital workflows in film, video, and game production. Their solutions deliver high performance, capacity, and modular architecture to handle large data volumes and enable simultaneous access. This removes bottlenecks and constraints, allowing creative teams to focus on their work without storage limitations. Hitachi storage drives improved productivity, accelerated rendering, and reduced production costs for studios.
This case study describes how Informatica, a data integration software company, implemented a master data management (MDM) initiative to consolidate customer data across different business functions and systems. They faced challenges in accessing production databases, managing the large number of required development and testing environments, and refreshing data from production. To address these challenges, Informatica turned to Delphix's database virtualization technology, which provided self-service access to databases, consolidated environments, and enabled quick data refreshes without impacting production systems. Using Delphix helped Informatica launch their MDM project faster and reduce infrastructure costs.
This document discusses various cloud deployment models and categories of cloud computing services. It provides details on public, private, hybrid, and community cloud models, comparing their advantages and disadvantages. Additionally, it describes the three main categories of cloud services - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Public clouds promote standardization and flexibility while private clouds attempt customization and higher efficiency. Hybrid clouds operate with compromises around resource sharing.
A More Efficient Way to Automate Cloud Infrastructure Solution ProfileHitachi Vantara
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director provides a single point of management for Hitachi converged infrastructure elements. It allows administrators to inventory, provision, operate, and monitor all virtual and physical components from a centralized interface. This simplifies tasks, improves efficiency and helps ensure predictable performance, reliability and protection of resources and data.
Challenges Management and Opportunities of Cloud DBAinventy
Research Inventy provides an outlet for research findings and reviews in areas of Engineering, Computer Science found to be relevant for national and international development, Research Inventy is an open access, peer reviewed international journal with a primary objective to provide research and applications related to Engineering. In its publications, to stimulate new research ideas and foster practical application from the research findings. The journal publishes original research of such high quality as to attract contributions from the relevant local and international communities.
Cloud's Hidden Impact on IT Support OrganizationsChristopher Foot
The rapid growth of cloud offerings are providing organizations with cost effective alternatives to on-premises systems. When calculating TCO and return on their cloud investment, savvy decision makers must also factor in costs that include staff training, new organizational roles and responsibilities, policy and procedure changes, modifications to application design, build and change management processes as well as the impact cloud applications will have on existing support toolsets.
The last slide includes a link to the YouTube Webinar of this presentation.
The Delphix Agile Data Platform accelerates business projects by quickly providing teams the right application and database copies. It uses a "DataVisor" to virtualize storage and share data blocks, eliminating 90% of storage usage. Teams can create unlimited virtual copies of databases, applications, and files in minutes. This allows projects to be completed faster and within budget by streamlining development, testing, and other processes.
Optimize your virtualization_efforts_with_a_blade_infrastructureMartín Ríos
The document discusses the benefits of using a converged and intelligent blade-based infrastructure to optimize virtualization efforts. Key points include:
- Blade servers allow for high-density deployments that support the high performance workloads of virtualized environments. Embedded intelligence in blades can automate management tasks and provide alerts to improve uptime.
- A tightly integrated blade solution with automated storage and network management can simplify tasks like workload migration and optimizing resource utilization across infrastructure components.
- HP offers blade server solutions that leverage built-in intelligence to maximize efficiency of virtualized environments through features like automated monitoring and updating.
This presentation educates you about Cloud Computing, Cloud computing services and in it SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service), IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), Types of cloud computing and Cloud security.
For more topics stay tuned with Learnbay.
Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphereHitachi Vantara
Relentless trends of increasing data center complexity
and massive data growth have companies seeking new,
reliable ways to deliver IT services in an on-demand,
rapid, flexible and scalable fashion. Many data centers
now face growing demands for faster delivery of
business services, serious resource contentions and
trade-offs between IT agility and vendor lock-in. They
also have mounting complications and rising costs in
managing disparate islands of technology resources.
Cloud computing allows users to access a shared pool of configurable computing resources over a network. It provides on-demand, scalable access to resources without requiring users to manage physical servers or storage. The document discusses key cloud computing concepts like Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), virtualization, load balancing, and examples of cloud platforms like Google App Engine.
The document summarizes the findings of a proof of concept (POC) that tested adding compute resources to storage arrays and solutions in order to create more efficient and cost-effective storage. Key findings include:
1) Adding CPU cores and RAM to storage controllers and solutions through virtualization can reduce storage consumption by up to two-thirds and improve performance and resiliency.
2) Compute-intensive solutions that leverage data deduplication and compression in software delivered significant space savings and faster rebuild times compared to hardware-based solutions.
3) The POC validated that adding compute to storage follows the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider's business model of self-service and delivers efficient primary
Covers the problems of achieving scalability in server farm environments and how distributed data grids provide in-memory storage and boost performance. Includes summary of ScaleOut Software product offerings including ScaleOut State Server and Grid Computing Edition.
Advantages of Mainframe Replication With Hitachi VSPHitachi Vantara
Learn how Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform mainframe replication capabilities can address your business continuity and disaster recovery requirements. Also learn how Brocade switches and directors complement HDS mainframe replication capabilities and add value to HDS solutions. By viewing this webcast, you’ll learn: Trends driving changes to business continuity requirements, and how HDS replication products such as Hitachi Universal Replicator and hyperswap integration capabilities with Hitachi Business Continuity Manager are best positioned to address them. The key features and functions of Brocade FCIP switches and Fibre Channel/FICON director inter-data center connectivity that provide additional value to HDS replication solutions. Examples of how companies have implemented complete HDS solutions to solve their mainframe BC and DR needs. For more information on our mainframe solutions please read: http://www.hds.com/solutions/infrastructure/mainframe/?WT.ac=us_mg_sol_mnfr
Project Presentation. Gives a good overview of the various software defined technologies and quality attributes. I am looking for sales jobs at high tech companies. My profile is on LinkedIn if you need to contact me. I appreciate feedback and comments on this presentation.
Zahid Ayub is a senior database administrator with over 14 years of experience managing SQL Server and Oracle databases. He has extensive experience designing and implementing database solutions, including high availability, backup/recovery, and replication. Currently he works as a senior database technical architect for Secure-IT in the UK, where his responsibilities include Oracle database migrations and implementing centralized monitoring.
Improved Efficiency through Workload Optimisationianmasters
Improving company efficiency through a dynamic infrastructure and workload optimisation. Reduce downtime associated with migrations, maintenance or unplanned events. Centralise backup procedures, perform more reliable recoveries, recover to any-point-time, and flexibly run your server and desktop infrastrucure from centralised images.
VMware provides virtualization software that allows guest operating systems to run on virtual machines. This makes virtual machines highly portable between physical computers. Administrators can pause, move, or copy virtual machines. Virtualization treats hardware as a pool of resources available on demand. VMware was founded in 1999 and initially developed virtualization in the 1960s for mainframe computers. It offers two types of hypervisors - Type 1 is a bare metal hypervisor directly on hardware while Type 2 is hosted on a traditional operating system. VMware helps enterprises consolidate servers, provision applications quickly, isolate workloads, enable disaster recovery, and reduce costs. Welch's Foods case study showed VMware helped save over $100,000 by migrating servers to
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 is the preferred choice over any other blade or rack server platform on the market today, presenting a unique combination of built-in virtualization, massive I/O bandwidth, large memory capacity, browser-based point-and-click management, and unprecedented configuration flexibility for companies of all types and sizes.
Powering the Creation of Great Work Solution ProfileHitachi Vantara
Hitachi Data Systems provides scalable storage solutions to power digital workflows in film, video, and game production. Their solutions deliver high performance, capacity, and modular architecture to handle large data volumes and enable simultaneous access. This removes bottlenecks and constraints, allowing creative teams to focus on their work without storage limitations. Hitachi storage drives improved productivity, accelerated rendering, and reduced production costs for studios.
This case study describes how Informatica, a data integration software company, implemented a master data management (MDM) initiative to consolidate customer data across different business functions and systems. They faced challenges in accessing production databases, managing the large number of required development and testing environments, and refreshing data from production. To address these challenges, Informatica turned to Delphix's database virtualization technology, which provided self-service access to databases, consolidated environments, and enabled quick data refreshes without impacting production systems. Using Delphix helped Informatica launch their MDM project faster and reduce infrastructure costs.
This document discusses various cloud deployment models and categories of cloud computing services. It provides details on public, private, hybrid, and community cloud models, comparing their advantages and disadvantages. Additionally, it describes the three main categories of cloud services - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Public clouds promote standardization and flexibility while private clouds attempt customization and higher efficiency. Hybrid clouds operate with compromises around resource sharing.
A More Efficient Way to Automate Cloud Infrastructure Solution ProfileHitachi Vantara
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director provides a single point of management for Hitachi converged infrastructure elements. It allows administrators to inventory, provision, operate, and monitor all virtual and physical components from a centralized interface. This simplifies tasks, improves efficiency and helps ensure predictable performance, reliability and protection of resources and data.
Challenges Management and Opportunities of Cloud DBAinventy
Research Inventy provides an outlet for research findings and reviews in areas of Engineering, Computer Science found to be relevant for national and international development, Research Inventy is an open access, peer reviewed international journal with a primary objective to provide research and applications related to Engineering. In its publications, to stimulate new research ideas and foster practical application from the research findings. The journal publishes original research of such high quality as to attract contributions from the relevant local and international communities.
Cloud's Hidden Impact on IT Support OrganizationsChristopher Foot
The rapid growth of cloud offerings are providing organizations with cost effective alternatives to on-premises systems. When calculating TCO and return on their cloud investment, savvy decision makers must also factor in costs that include staff training, new organizational roles and responsibilities, policy and procedure changes, modifications to application design, build and change management processes as well as the impact cloud applications will have on existing support toolsets.
The last slide includes a link to the YouTube Webinar of this presentation.
Organizations looking to the cloud now have more vendor offerings and architecture choices available to them than ever before. In order to correctly select and implement the most appropriate cloud based DBMS architecture for their shops, technology pros must create and execute a well-thought out, detailed analysis of the competing offerings.
In addition, they must consider the impact cloud based DBMS systems, like any new architecture, will have on their support environment. Changes to policies and procedures, security controls, staff roles and responsibilities, change management processes and support documentation must be evaluated.
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Security as a Service (SECaaS) provides security services hosted by cloud providers on a subscription basis. It has become increasingly popular for companies as it eases the responsibilities of in-house security teams, allows security needs to scale with business growth, and avoids the costs and maintenance of on-premise alternatives. Examples of SECaaS include continuous monitoring, data loss prevention, email security, antivirus management, and more. Identity management as a service (IDaaS/IAMaaS) provides identity management solutions in the cloud without requiring companies to invest in underlying hardware or applications. It automates user identity, access rights, and resource management across multiple clouds and environments. Compliance as a service can help manage cloud
This document summarizes key points from a lecture on virtualization and cloud computing:
1. Nearly everyone uses cloud services directly or indirectly through applications like GitHub. Companies are moving more business operations to cloud services and platforms.
2. Cloud services provide on-demand, scalable resources that users pay for based on usage. Key cloud service models are SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.
3. SaaS delivers software through subscriptions. PaaS provides development tools and platforms in the cloud. IaaS offers virtual infrastructure like servers, storage, and networks on demand.
This document discusses various cloud computing service models known as XaaS (Anything as a Service). It defines XaaS as the delivery of IT functions over the internet on a flexible pay-per-use basis. Specific XaaS models discussed include Network as a Service (NaaS), Database as a Service (DBaaS), Storage as a Service (SaaS), Testing as a Service (TaaS), Security as a Service (SECaaS), Hardware as a Service (HaaS), Backup as a Service (BaaS), Communications as a Service (CaaS), and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). The document also briefly covers cluster computing, grid computing, and
This document discusses Data as a Service (DaaS) in cloud computing. It defines DaaS and explains that it allows users to access data stored in the cloud from any location. The document outlines the components, architecture, pricing models, benefits and drawbacks of DaaS. It provides examples of companies that offer DaaS like Google, Windows Azure, and Amazon.
1. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provides basic computing and storage resources that users can use to build and run their own applications. Platform as a Service (PaaS) provides development tools and environments for building applications. Software as a Service (SaaS) provides ready-to-use applications to users.
2. IaaS provides the lowest level of abstraction while SaaS provides the highest level. IaaS gives users control over operating systems and storage while SaaS users do not manage the underlying infrastructure. PaaS sits between IaaS and SaaS in the level of control and abstraction it provides.
Cloud computing allows on-demand access to computing resources like applications, servers, data storage, and development tools hosted at a remote data center managed by a cloud service provider. Customers pay monthly subscription fees or pay-per-use fees. Database as a service (DBaaS) allows customers to access and use cloud database systems without having to purchase or manage their own hardware or software. Monitoring as a service (MaaS) automates threat detection and management through continuous monitoring and patching. Communication as a service (CaaS) provides cloud-based voice, text, video communication services managed by cloud vendors.
Selecting a SQL Server Cloud Platform - IaaS, Amazon RDS or Azure SQL DB?Christopher Foot
RDX takes a deep-dive look into the three cloud platforms we have available for SQL Server – SQL Server on IaaS, Amazon RDS for SQL Server and Azure SQL DB. We evaluate features, costs, migration utilities, toolsets, ongoing support requirements and the pros and cons of each architecture. Learn from experts who support dozens of systems on all 3 platforms!
What is IAAS Explained infrastructure as a servicejeetendra mandal
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) is a type of cloud computing service that provides essential computing, networking, and storage capabilities on a pay-as-you-go basis, enabling users to grow and reduce resources as needed and avoid upfront costs. IaaS offers the lowest level of management of cloud resources and allows users to access infrastructure components like monitoring and billing. Some advantages of IaaS include cost savings, scalability, and backup/disaster recovery capabilities.
This paper discusses cloud application services (SaaS) and emphasizes that a SaaS application's data architecture should be robust, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and highly manageable. It argues that multi-tenancy and a meta-data driven architecture can address these issues. The paper outlines three approaches to multi-tenant data management and describes concepts like a meta-data driven reference architecture and conceptual data model. It also compares green field SaaS implementation to migrating an existing application to a SaaS model, noting the latter requires more assessment.
Cloud application services (saa s) – multi tenant data architectureJohnny Le
The document discusses cloud application services (SaaS) and multi-tenant data architectures. It describes SaaS as software delivered over the internet that eliminates installing/running applications locally. A multi-tenant architecture allows one application instance to serve multiple organizations, lowering costs. There are three approaches to multi-tenant data management with varying levels of isolation. The document advocates for a metadata-driven reference architecture where application components are generated from metadata at runtime to serve tenants' unique needs. It provides conceptual models of the metadata-driven approach.
This document provides an overview of Azure SQL DB environments. It discusses the different types of cloud platforms including IaaS, PaaS and DBaaS. It summarizes the key features and benefits of Azure SQL DB including automatic backups, geo-replication for disaster recovery, and elastic pools for reducing costs. The document also covers pricing models, performance monitoring, automatic tuning capabilities, and security features of Azure SQL DB.
DBaaS in the Real World: Risks, Rewards & TradeoffsScyllaDB
What do you give up – and gain – when moving to a fully-managed cloud database?
Now that database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) offerings have been “battle tested” in production, how is the reality matching up to the expectation? What can teams thinking of adopting a fully-managed DBaaS can learn from teams who have years of experience working with this deployment model?
Join this webinar to dive into the reality of working with various high-performance DBaaS offerings. We’ll cover the following topics, all supported with real-world examples:
- Developer flexibility
- Cost variability
- Security & privacy
- Performance impact
- Transparency & troubleshooting
Enterprise data centres have traditionally used servers and storage that typically scale only to a few nodes. Even small capacity or performance scales required large installation increments or worse, required replicating the existing IT infrastructure, which is prohibitive in terms of cost and space. An important impediment was that as storage capacity increased, system performance and efficiency suffered. In addition, IT budgets came under pressure and created high entry barriers to scale for enterprise class data centres. However, virtualization and cloud platforms are changing that. IT departments can now linearly scale to several server and storage nodes rapidly, for capacity and performance without compromising on efficiency and to keep costs under control. This helps save space via hardware consolidation, improves productivity, and derives a competitive advantage through increased availability, lean administration, and fast deployment times.
Comparison of BaaS, RaaS, and DRaaS - Determining the Optimal SolutionMaryJWilliams2
The comparison of BaaS (Backup as a Service), RaaS (Recovery as a Service), and DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) has highlighted the unique benefits and considerations of each solution. BaaS offers simplified data backup and restoration, making it suitable for routine data protection needs. RaaS provides a faster recovery time objective (RTO) and focuses on restoring critical applications and services. DRaaS, on the other hand, offers a comprehensive solution for business continuity and disaster recovery, ensuring minimal downtime and data loss during catastrophic events.
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The Webinar takes participants through the entire cloud migration life-cycle – from initial analysis to final migration. We evaluate the leading cloud DBMS offerings from Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle. We also compare IaaS and DBaaS to better understand the two architectures and identify the most appropriate use case for each platform.
We finish by providing RDX’s recommended database migration procedures and the vendor utilities you can leverage to ensure trouble-free cloud transitions. Learn from experts who have migrated dozens of on-premises systems to the cloud!
The document discusses Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing. IaaS provides virtual machines, storage, and other hardware resources to clients over the internet. Choosing IaaS allows organizations to avoid large upfront costs, scale infrastructure easily, and focus IT resources on strategic initiatives rather than maintenance. However, moving to IaaS requires planning for existing infrastructure, ensuring application compatibility, understanding required modifications, evaluating backup plans and costs, and analyzing security risks from insider threats or virtual machine escapes.
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The document discusses 10 top IT initiatives for businesses in 2016 according to a survey conducted by Peak 10. The top initiatives are:
1) Security, with a focus on adaptive security approaches
2) Disaster recovery, with an emphasis on testing DR plans regularly
3) Cloud computing, with advice to pursue a hybrid cloud strategy
4) Consolidation by communicating changes and collaborating across teams
5) Cost control through outsourcing non-core functions to reduce costs
6) Backups by understanding options to select the best approach for needs
7) Business growth by enhancing the customer experience with technology
8) Application management and starting outsourcing relationships the right way
9) Automation while considering
This document discusses key questions to consider when creating a disaster recovery plan. It begins by outlining the high costs of downtime for businesses. The main questions covered include: 1) estimating the cost of downtime, 2) defining recovery objectives around recovery point, recovery time, and capacity, 3) identifying application and system dependencies, 4) determining an appropriate location for the disaster recovery site, and 5) sizing network connections between primary and backup sites. Answering these questions helps ensure a disaster recovery plan meets recovery needs in a cost effective manner.
IT Industry terms, a guide to getting it right.Peak 10
Cloud and hosting industry articles seem to be littered with phrases, terms and acronyms that have become everyday language for many IT professionals. But for others, these terms remain ambiguous. What exactly is a VPDC or a Recovery Point Objective? Still not sure? Don't worry, we've got you covered.
TOP 10 Reasons to Make Peak 10 Your Cloud Provider of ChoicePeak 10
Your success and the success of your customers must be its prime directive. After that, choose a provider because it has the tools, skills and capabilities to create the one and only cloud solution that fits your needs better than any other. Here are 10 reasons why that choice should be Peak 10.
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Moving to the cloud? You have choices to make.
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The document summarizes Gartner's top 10 strategic technology trends for 2014 presented at their annual conference. The trends include:
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This document discusses five methods for migrating workloads to the cloud: 1) Manual data migration, 2) Offline media transfer, 3) Internet transfer of virtual disk images, 4) Software agent-based data replication, and 5) Full server failover using software agents. It provides advantages and considerations for each method, and explains how to implement the fourth and fifth methods which use software agents to replicate data over time without impacting production systems.
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TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
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This presentation provides valuable insights into effective cost-saving techniques on AWS. Learn how to optimize your AWS resources by rightsizing, increasing elasticity, picking the right storage class, and choosing the best pricing model. Additionally, discover essential governance mechanisms to ensure continuous cost efficiency. Whether you are new to AWS or an experienced user, this presentation provides clear and practical tips to help you reduce your cloud costs and get the most out of your budget.
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
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1. THE WHATS, WHYS AND HOWS OF
DATABASE AS A SERVICE
(DBAAS)
Companies have long used relational database management systems (RDBMS) to
power their mission-critical applications. However, these systems have proven to be
cumbersome to manage as more and more applications with database back-ends
are deployed. They can’t automatically scale their resources in response to varying
workload demands, licensing costs continue to escalate, and ongoing administration
including monitoring, backups, and event remediation is onerous.
The emergence of cloud technologies and enhancements in database platforms
have spawned solutions to these challenges, including one known as database as
a service (DBaaS). This article provides a high-level overview of DBaaS, its benefits,
considerations for implementation and what to think about when choosing a DBaaS
provider. A section is also included which focuses specifically on a solution for
companies with SQL Server-dependent applications.
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2. THE WHATS, WHYS AND HOWS OF
DATABASE AS A SERVICE (DBaaS)
WHAT IS DBaaS
DBaaS is a cloud database deployment model that delivers a powerful, on-demand database platform
that streamlines provisioning, administration, recovery, scaling and security. Specialized expertise can
be employed, leveraging economies of scale for routine administration, backup, recovery and tuning
tasks, alleviating the weakness of system administrator generalists while freeing up time to focus on
more strategic initiatives.
DBaaS ensures consistent database security and IT best practices across multiple databases. Although
it is designed for mission-critical applications, many companies use it, at least initially, for applications
that are given lower priority due to a lack of DBA resources.
While DBaaS is similar to a “hosted database,” it offers far improved security isolation. Benefits
are also derived from the intersection of cloud characteristics related to the underlying infrastructure
including rapid elasticity, metered billing, the illusion of infinite supply and ubiquitous access.
HOW DBaaS WORKS
With DBaaS, a company subscribes to resources needed to operate its own databases for the duration
of the subscription. Database resources are provisioned quickly, allowing line of business owners,
systems administrators, application developers, architects, testers and other database users to store and
retrieve data without dealing with computer and storage hardware, operating systems, or database
server administration.
Companies subscribe to a service from a DBaaS provider that provisions a specific level of CPU,
memory and storage resources on a multi-tenanted system. The DBaaS provider manages the capacity
of the environment behind the scenes without any efforts on the part of the consumer, making sure
that rapid growth is possible at the moment it is needed. Some services may allow bursting above the
consumer’s resource subscriptions to access unused capacity in the system when utilization conditions
permit. Depending on the DBaaS provider and type of DBaaS product, companies can connect their
database with an application that is running on-premises, in a public cloud or in the DBaaS provider’s
data center.
With DBaaS, users offload the administrative overhead of the operating system, server and storage
hardware, network, security and computing facilities (space, power, cooling). This allows staff to
concentrate on the application that utilizes the database, which is where value is truly generated.
The changes to existing development processes or production environments vary from provider to
provider. Some allow native connectivity of application servers and development tools, making the
change near zero while some providers introduce a middleware layer that requires the modification
of code to use the new interface. Regardless of the architectural specifics, it is expected that a DBaaS
subscriber can only view their own databases; the databases and associated metadata belonging to
other DBaaS users are not accessible.
While some companies could build their own DBaaS-like solution in-house, most find the task daunting
and cost-prohibitive due to a lack of in-house expertise to build the solution, the need for ongoing
maintenance and the high costs for licensing fees. The benefits of database server consolidation are
realized but the other areas for potential cost savings and focus are not. A DBaaS provider takes care
of the database management system licensing and maintains the software, operating system, hardware
and all other aspects of the environment, making DBaaS a cost-effective, easy-to-implement, easy-tooperate option.
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DATABASE AS A SERVICE (DBaaS)
THE BENEFITS OF DBaaS
The benefits of DBaaS vary, based on the provider and how the solution is structured, but can include:
• A shift from capital expense (CapEx) for hardware and software to operating expense (OpEx)
for the database service. Companies can realize significant cost savings by purchasing database
capacity and functionality as needed, and don’t have to invest in advance of future requirements.
• Rapid or on-demand, self-service-based database provisioning. DBaaS allows for provisioning an
environment in a very short period in contrast to days or weeks, thus reducing time to market.
• The ability of the customer to leverage existing servers and storage through automated resource
management across standalone, clustered, virtualized and non-virtualized.
• The ability to outsource the administration and monitoring of databases such as backup, recovery,
tuning, optimization, patching, upgrading and creation. Based on the policies that are defined by
DBAs, database administration tasks can be automated — scheduled or proactively initiated to
support various database activities.
• Granular metering of database usage that can be used for chargeback to various database
users. Tracking is typically based on usage time, space, availability guarantees and resource
consumption and provides an aggregated view per database.
• Freeing up of IT staff to focus on the logical administration of the database and the application
data. The DBaaS provider provides a comprehensive database operating environment and a
service-level agreement (SLA). Internal IT staffs don’t have to build and manage the physical
environment, and physical database administration tasks are offloaded to the DBaaS provider.
• Repurposing servers and storage. Servers and storage are often underutilized; DBaaS offers the
ability to repurpose system resources more efficiently, resulting in significant cost savings.
• Support for faster application development and testing. DBaaS enables faster provisioning of new
databases and automates the administration process, which helps organizations deliver database
instances faster to developers, testers and architects.
• Improved availability for various applications. DBaaS can improve high availability of databases,
especially for non-critical applications, by enabling failover of databases to available system
resources. Typically these best practice architectures would not be cost effective in a dedicated
environment.
WHO SHOULD
CONSIDER DBaaS
From early-stage start-ups to multi-national corporations, companies of all sizes can potentially benefit
from being able to outsource and consolidate database management tasks on a standardized and
optimized platform. DBaaS solutions are particularly ideal for small- and medium-sized businesses
that have found in-house database solutions cost-prohibitive and that lack in-house expertise. DBaaS
provides these businesses with access to the same technologies that were once limited to the budgets of
only large enterprises.
For larger companies, DBaaS can offer solutions at the departmental level without bringing in IT or
procurement, providing a much quicker, easier way to implement line of business solutions.
DBaaS is also extremely beneficial for companies with use cases involving database functionality that
requires rapid provisioning or on-demand scalability. That includes proof-of-concept environments and
development and testing environments for new applications, unified application life-cycle environments
on a single platform, seasonal or varying demand applications, and cost-effective business continuity/
disaster recovery (BC/DR) environments.
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4. THE WHATS, WHYS AND HOWS OF
DATABASE AS A SERVICE (DBaaS)
PROVIDER CONSIDERATIONS
Once a decision has been made to pursue DBaaS, there are a number of things to consider when
selecting a provider. Among them is the database platform that is being used to power the offering.
While a number of open source and proprietary relational database offerings are on the market,
customers that require easy migration and portability between the cloud and on-premises systems
(assuming the same database platform) must be sure that the provider can support enterprise-grade
systems.
Because DBaaS is accessible via the public Internet or private IP connections, DBaaS providers should
integrate a number of security measures into their service offering to ensure the integrity of the data and
to guard against unauthorized access. That can include encryption of data in flight, firewall controls
that set policies for user access and inbound/outbound port traffic and rules on the geographic location
of data. Make sure that any DBaaS provider you are considering is also current with the latest software
patches and updates and can address emerging security issues.
Other considerations include regulatory compliance mandates such as the Payment Card Industry Data
Security Standards (PCI DSS) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA),
service level agreements (SLAs), bursting policies, backup/recovery capabilities, data center footprint
and locations, enterprise-class compute and storage infrastructure along with appropriate vendors
support and how management responsibilities are delegated between the DBaaS provider and the
customer.
GETTING STARTED
WITH DBaaS
Before diving into a DBaaS solution there is upfront work required to help ensure successful
implementation. First, gather all prospective stakeholders within your organization and engage in some
high-level planning. Although DBaaS can help automate database provisioning and administration, it
requires coordination between database, system, network, storage and application teams to ensure that
business requirements, such as security policies and performance needs, are met.
Determine which databases and servers should be part of the DBaaS subscription, who will be allowed
to manage databases and what kind of system resource policies will need to be established. DBaaS is
not just for DBAs and systems administrators; it can also be leveraged by developers, testers, architects
and project managers with no database experience. They can provision a database themselves, or
perform basic database functions such as backup, recovery and data movement. Nor is DBaaS limited
to test, development, training or other nonproduction databases as it can be extended to include
production- and mission-critical databases.
With a plan in place, start small and add more databases and resources over time. Begin with noncritical applications and add tens of databases initially to the DBaaS platform before adding hundreds.
The more databases added to the DBaaS platform, the more savings that can potentially be achieved
through repurposing hardware.
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5. THE WHATS, WHYS AND HOWS OF
DATABASE AS A SERVICE (DBaaS)
What If Your Databases are SQL Server-dependent?
While a number of DBaaS solutions are available for
companies whose applications are SQL Server-dependent,
Peak 10 is among the first DBaaS providers that offers a
solution that leverage the power of Microsoft’s SQL Server
2012.
Peak 10 SQL as a Service (SQLaaS) is a high availability,
secure DBaaS solution. Powered by Microsoft SQL Server®
2012, it provides access to a high-performance, multi-tenant
database environment for running, developing and testing
Microsoft SQL-dependent database applications.
The architecture utilizes Microsoft Windows failover clustering
and Microsoft SQL Server 2012 technologies to provide
multiple secondary database replicas, which users may
connect to via a single endpoint. The environment has been
tested and scaled to support enterprise-level production
workloads.
Resource levels can be quickly and cost-effectively scaled
based on business needs, without interrupting operations
all while providing availability guarantees, performance
assurances, and reduced costs compared to dedicated
database environments.
Always Available
Peak 10 SQL as a Service leverages the enterprise features of
Microsoft SQL Server 2012, including AlwaysOn Availability
Groups, to provide both business continuity (BC) and
disaster recovery (DR), delivering a best practices database
environment topology for production applications.
Unlike typical hosted database or cloud database solutions,
which provide little fault tolerance, Peak 10 SQL as a Service
provides local and geographic redundancy with:
• A primary replica
• A local secondary replica (synchronous/automatic
failover) for business continuity
• A geo-diverse replica (asynchronous/manual failover)
for disaster recovery
Business continuity keeps the platform up and running during
scheduled maintenance events, which are required to keep
a database environment secure and performing well. All
systems are always monitored 24/7/365, and are bolstered
by Peak 10’s SQL experts and PCI DSS and HIPAA/HITECH
compliant, redundant cloud infrastructure.
Always Secure
Using SQL Server 2012’s Resource Governor, computing
resources are isolated and controlled to protect databasedependent application’s performance. In addition, Peak 10
SQL as a Service is purposefully access-restricted to within
Peak 10’s network to reduce potential attack vectors. It also
employs firewall protection to limit which specific systems are
allowed to connect.
Always Managed
Many organizations do not have full-time, on-staff SQL
Server expertise to deal with the challenges of ideal
environment architecture, system performance tuning
due to change/scale and the day-to-day troubleshooting
events that inevitably arise. Peak 10 SQL as a Service
puts the responsibilities of round-the-clock, best practices
monitoring and management in the hands of Peak 10’s
SQL Server experts and enterprise-class management
platforms. Peak 10 will provide valuable information
to customers’ IT, development and/or database (DBA)
personnel, empowering them with data around key health
and performance indicators (KPI/KHI) used to optimize
application or database performance.
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