The Wheel – I’m sure someone’s done that!

You know I’ve just invented this device – its round, has a small hole in the middle and works really well if you put two of them together connected by a pole. I’ll call it the wheel – what’s that? Someone’s already thought of it!!

How many times do we reinvent the same solution to a problem? How many times do we not communicate that we have developed a solution? How many times are solutions not shared?

If you were to sit down and work out the cost of the effort wasted in poor management of the tools developed and the procedures implemented in the management of an organisation’s database estate, the chances are you would be pretty concerned about the impact on your operational budget.

The low hanging fruit in achieving "Better for less"

We’ve been attending a few conferences lately focused on the current government initiative “Better for Less” and had plenty of discussions with prospective clients. The predominant theme is, as a tax payer myself, very welcome. Public sector departments and organisations are being actively encouraged to make smarter procurements and to look for the best value from all sources with a particular emphasis on the innovative solutions that can be procured through SME’s at a local level. Great for UK PLC and for us as citizens.

For far too long, in my opinion, the procurement function of the public sector has been dominated by inflexible framework agreements and only been assailable by the large systems houses. Any scraps from the table have been generally given to preferred partners and the contracts associated with delivery so challenging as to deter all but the most desperate and those who want the business at any cost.

Making Outsourcing a Safer Option

Outsourcing is a viable strategy to manage the requirement to control and reduce costs and create a more flexible and reactive resourcing platform; however too many times we have heard the horror stories of when it goes wrong. Successful outsourced relationships are more likely to be achieved when both the customer and the service provider make the effort to ensure that the control mechanisms are in place to provide independent measurement and visibility of service levels and status.

Independent dbWatch Product Review

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Independent dbWatch Product Review

Below is a quote from the conclusion of an independent product review carried out by sql-server-performance.com. Visit http://goo.gl/2wnYT for the in-depth report.

"dbWatch is a highly interesting monitoring tool for all those of us who work in a heterogeneous database environment. It offers most of the common monitoring features for the supported platforms right out of the box using platform-targeted code. The shipped code can be extended and customised in almost any way you like. You can seamlessly integrate all the monitoring code you are currently using by adding new tasks and alerts. With dbWatch it is possible to unify and standardise monitoring across different platforms. The very powerful reporting engine makes it really easy to create meaningful reports that are “management-compatible”. The open plugin architecture offers the chance to integrate dbWatch seamlessly into an existing infrastructure. If you have a need for such a monitoring tool, make sure you try dbWatch. It could very well be that it is the tool you are looking for."

Case Study - Arion Banki

Since the implementation of dbWatch, Arion Banki has been able to achieve a single clear view across the multiple technologies within their complex IT Environment enabling their team of 5 DBAs to efficiently manage several hundred databases.  Learn more...

Case Study - Komplett.no

Komplett.no's technical team have constant visibility of the health and status of their SQL Server environment with dbWatch which enables them to proactively monitor all aspects of their database estate and saves them approximately 10% of their time.  Learn more...