How To Help Your Clients Navigate The Myriad Of Database Storage Solutions

Not Surprisingly, Protecting Your Clients’ Lifeblood Can Be Quite Profitable

Data is the lifeblood of virtually all business organizations. Whether the business is a 50-man shop or a Fortune 50 enterprise, the odds are that their daily business workflow is reliant on its database operations. And, regardless of the database environment size, database administrators (DBAs) face a number of challenges when its comes to deploying and managing databases. With the variety of products on the market today, choosing the right solution, and then knowing how to configure, deploy and manage that solution can be a rigorous task — one that can really earn you that coveted “trusted advisor” status.  Here, you can help your client to find a solution able to address their organization’s goals — one that efficiently manages and protects the data, while reducing the cost of database deployments and management.

• Optimizing Performance

Ensuring optimal performance is critical in any database deployment. With the cost of solid-state disk (SSD) becoming a more viable piece of the storage array, many vendors are providing SSD options. However buyer beware: a majority of these storage vendors simply throw SSD disks into their existing arrays and hope that the SSD performance can handle the I/O loads. You need to help your clients to source a storage solution that was designed specifically to exploit SSD and one that offers a variety of features and tools to not only handle the I/O load, but also enhance the performance to satisfy the endurance of the load. The solution should have the flexibility to add SSD as a cache tier, a data tier, or a mixture of both caching and tiering.

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