Remote Database Administration

We Protect Your Data

Aspect Consulting provides on-site or completely remote managed database administration services designed to reduce your expenditures, while optimizing your company’s database environment.

While reducing IT expenses is certainly attractive, our Database Administration Services offer more than just cost cutting.

Our Senior Level DBAs will be available to you 24 hours each day, 7 days a week, every day of the year. No vacations or sick days to cover; no system failures due to mistakes made by inexperienced administrators, and no communication barriers.

Capabilities

Remote Database Monitoring
Database Administration Support
Database Migration/Upgrades
RDBMS Installation and Configuration
Backup and Recovery
Performance Tuning
Server Consolidation

Featured Success Stories

Remote Database Administration Cuts Costs

The client’s CIO was charged with a key initiative of reducing the costs associated with database maintenance. The company needed a solid, experienced DBA to provide continuous support without absorbing the cost of full-time employment, benefits, vacations to cover, or the risk of managing the highturnover previously encountered with in-house DBA resources.

After comparing proposals, the client was impressed with Aspect’s flexible approach to support: remote daily monitoring of the entire database environments and support services provided when needed. The client gained continuous monitoring for peace of mind and on demand professional support at a cost that was less than a full-time resource. Aspect was able to reduce the company’s administration costs by 35%, allowing the client to refocus those savings on mission critical projects.

Environment Stability Achieved at an Affordable Price

After years of expansion, the client, a leading healthcare company in the US, needed to take greater steps to ensure that critical data was protected and access to its application servers was not interrupted. After experiencing high DBA turnover, optimizing administration efforts was also at the top of the IT director’s list.

Aspect was engaged to stabilize the client’s environment. Aspect was able reduce the number of servers within the environment by 20%,. Monitoring ensures that missed backups, downed servers, failed jobs, and out of range disk space or file size growth can no longer occur without alerting support staff.

Database Consolidation Effort Optimizes Environment

With multiple business units and frequent mergers, the client’s database server environment had undergone unchecked growth, and operational costs had ballooned in tandem with the growth of the environment.

Aspect collected key metrics to detect underutilized servers, and was able reduce the number of servers within the environment by 25%, leveraging savings by reducing licensing costs and energy consumption. In addition, the reduction in database servers and instances resulted in less administrative overhead, reducing operational costs further.

Remote Monitoring

Monitoring of Your Entire Database Environment

We utilize our custom monitoring tool Watchdog EMS to monitor and protect your data. WatchDog detects and communicates error conditions within your environment that standard infrastructure monitoring tools cannot detect, or cannot do well.

We know if

Databases are up
Disk or file space usage is about to be exceeded
Performance degradations occur
Missed backups occur

And, we can act quickly and efficiently to ensure your data is protected--A single email a day summarizes all alerts across your entire environment-so no alerts are missed or buried in an inbox.

As a bonus, WatchDog captures trends over time so that we can detect potential issues and proactively react before they impact your users.

Expertise

Service Summaries

Remote Database Administration Services
Database Server Consolidation Services

Database Infrastructure Assessment Services

Application Backup and Recovery Validation Services

WatchDog Enterprise Monitoring Services