Rapid ROI with remote DBA: the operational and cost benefits

Overview

Despite the role that some DBAs play in the application development process, even in the most dynamic of development environments much, if not most, of your DBA’s time and resources are spent doing low-level administration work. While such routine tasks—checking alert logs, monitoring performance levels, tuning, applying patches, performing upgrades, installing agents, and so forth—are critical to the support of your organization, rarely are they related to a company’s core competencies around revenue generation.

This white paper from Bluewolf looks at the operational and cost benefits of implementing a remote DBA system and askes: Why outsource the DBA function?