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We live and breathe database optimisation, working with customers of all shapes and sizes and across geographical regions. One common factor across all of these database estates is the challenge of ensuring database versions remain up-to-date and don\u2019t cause compliance headaches.<\/p>\n
Through our team of DBA experts and Cloud Engineers, we\u2019ve upgraded numerous production databases and migrated hundreds of critical workloads to private and public cloud environments. However complex your environment is and irrespective of how sensitive to downtime your business is, we have a proven model to help you achieve your modernisation requirements.<\/p>\n
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Modernising your databases brings a whole host of benefits to your business and can help ease some of the common issues we often see with customers.<\/p>\n
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Database vendors are constantly adding new features to their latest releases designed to make data management more efficient.<\/p>\n
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If your database versions go past vendor end-of-life, it will be more difficult (and more expensive) to support in the future.<\/p>\n
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In these days of GDPR and data governance, your auditor will have a field day if you\u2019ve got out-of-date databases storing sensitive data.<\/p>\n
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Older databases don\u2019t have the ongoing development of patches and hence are more vulnerable to the latest security threats.<\/p>\n
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Most of our customers now operate within a hybrid platform due to efficiencies gained from running applications within the cloud.<\/p>\n
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By keeping on top of your database patch management and upgrade strategy, it will be easier in the future to maintain your upgrade requirements.<\/p>\n
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Our DBA experts are able to leverage their significant real-world experience in multiple databases including Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and Couchbase to help ensure our customers are running their applications on the optimal database platform.<\/p>\n
Moreover, we\u2019ve deep expertise in private and public cloud infrastructure so we\u2019re able to determine the long-term modernisation strategy for the environment and advise on the suitability of the application for the various platform and architecture considerations.<\/p>\n
Often, our customers ask us to deliver an initial strategic review of their database environment which then results in a detailed plan that considers the best architecture for the system now and in the future. This typically results in us working with the customer to help migrate, deploy and manage the environment to ensure effective database modernisation.<\/p>\n
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No. End of Support (EOS) refers to the process of a vendor stopping their support including upgrades, patches and overall maintenance, whereas End of Life (EOL) describes the point where a vendor has decided not to continue with that version, and has confirmed the last stage of it’s lifecycle.<\/p>\n
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We would recommend you consider three options:<\/p>\n
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Your best bet is to look directly on the vendor’s website for this information.<\/p>\n
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We work with our customers and their Application Developers (whether in-house or third party) to agree a rigorous testing prior to any production system deployment and thereby mitigate any risk.<\/p>\n
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Our team of DBA experts have expertise across multiple database platforms and offer impartial strategic advice as to the pro\u2019s and con\u2019s of the database platform and architecture options.<\/p>\n
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