Why you may need remote DBA services?

To reduce on-going database support expenses and increase ROI as well as to get higher system availability at the same time.

It is hard to keep motivated and productive high level DBA in relatively small Oracle shop. Usually it is a lot of work in the beginning when DBA comes into a new place. However after everything is properly settled down amount of DBA work considerably decreases. If your DBA is always busy while your system and application are not changed dramatically it is something wrong with DBA or application.

On-going support takes much less efforts and resources than initial setup or upgrade/migration process. The amount of routine DBA work in stable environment decreases approximately in 3-4 times compare to project implementation. You still need professional DBA but you probably overpay for the service unless your shop includes a few production and a dozens of development environments.

Another serious issue is providing around the clock availability and support. Your DBA may get suddenly sick or definitely needs some vacation time. Many organizations keep at least two DBA on site to protect themselves from unforeseen outages. It is quite expensive.

Using Remote DBA services easy and effectively resolves all mentioned issues. Even though you have a dedicated DBA assigned to your project and/or organization there is DBA team on background which overlaps responsibilities of all team members. Backup DBA can efficiently resolve all problems if primary DBA isn't available for any reason.

We provide DBA services for both project implementation and on-going support. If project requires fulltime assignment you can get DBA resource on your demand for any number of days. However if you use Remote DBA to support your database/application on daily or 24x7 base you still don't have to pay a fulltime compensation. This flexible approach allows organizations to save a lot on IT resources.

One of the biggest issues of IT management is upgrading once in a while platform, database and operating system. Along with this hardware/software upgrade you may need to upgrade skills of your engineers and administrators. Keeping IT professionals up to date is also a painful process. Courses are quite expensive and they require time off for at least 4-5 days or even more if courses are not local.

We noticed quite a few times that permanent resources are not willing to spend hours and hours of intensive studies just to be certified professionals. Our Remote DBA team is fully certified by Oracle for the latest or at least previous database releases. Combination of proven experience and certification on a few consequent releases is in background of our key DBA.