Storage, data analysis, and various aspects of software development are all made infinitely easier by the use of up-to-date database technology. Even so, an explosion of data volume and infrastructure complexity is making data control a challenge for even the most stable IT operations in today’s landscape. Taming rampant data when the odds seem to be against you requires an open mind toward adopting new database management best practices.
Key Takeaways:
Data control and data-driven decision-making are more important than ever in an era of cloud-native software development when data is more prolific than what many organizations can handle using legacy systems. Modern database technology and the talent necessary for utilizing it is a necessity for keeping up with a rampant explosion of data.
Database management best practices make it possible to effectively monitor and optimize business data throughout its entire life cycle. Databases are, fundamentally, repositories of structured data. However, the best tools and best practices provide a means of processing, analyzing, and utilizing that data much more efficiently than what is possible otherwise.
Common database management techniques include monitoring application performance, scaling storage capacity and growth, and building a backup and disaster recovery strategy. These are protective measures that exemplify data control both in terms of ensuring data availability and in staving off threats that would compromise control and integrity.
Expanding on the best practices you can implement in your organization requires tailoring your next steps to the type of database management system that your teams use. The primary database system categories are:
The purpose of these database management systems is to provide control and visibility over database health and performance. The end user should have maximum access and control when it comes to their data, but guaranteeing that level of data control may require taking further measures if your organization is preparing for a digital transformation in the cloud.
In an article for Forbes, technology journalist Adrian Bridgwater addresses the question of how database management best practices are changing in the cloud. “As the rise of modern, cloud-native distributed relational databases from cloud providers or independents continues to grow, what can we expect next?”
“We can see that distributed technology is converging with the consistency and SQL compliance of a traditional relational database,” Bridgwater explains. While this speaks to the possibility of one complex IT concept stacking on top of another, there is a demand for simpler management in the cloud database space. Solutions for that demand already exist and are in use at many organizations to great effect.
The Nutanix Cloud Platform provides a foundation and an ideal location for consolidating and simplifying databases in the cloud. NCP database solutions include an efficient and resilient database infrastructure that empowers users to scale performance across clusters to ensure consistent database performance.
Database management best practices in the cloud include prioritizing resiliency, leveraging scalability, and capitalizing on automation to maximize security. Migrating to the Nutanix Cloud Platform puts these capabilities in your hands as early as day one.
Cloud service offerings, such as those provided by Nutanix, include database-as-a-service software that allows organizations to set up and operate fully functional databases in the cloud without taking on the burden of purchasing and housing physical hardware. Nutanix Database Service(NDB) helps you maximize efficiency by accelerating software development and ensuring reliable scalability.
The ultimate goal of a service like NDB is to make database management as simple and cost-effective as possible for the user. NDP functions with database management best practices as part of its core design, enabling one-click simplicity that overcomes the common difficulties of database provisioning and data refresh processes.
Through a series of varied and always-available cloud services, Nutanix bears the database burden of your organization without wresting any control away from you. Nutanix support services include training courses and certification programs that are available to your team operating in the Nutanix environment, ensuring you have access to the resources you need if you wish to maintain the talent necessary for practicing efficient data control within your own teams.
Concerns surrounding the availability of database access and related support can be an understandable barrier to entry for organizations hesitating to make the jump to a database-as-service solution. Nutanix addresses this with a platform that extends DBaaS across on-premises and public cloud locations, with an emphasis on self-service database management that puts practically every relevant problem-solving tool directly in your hands to use as you see fit.
Data control starts with enforcing the right practices in-house, but those practices must extend to the cloud as digital transformation starts to take hold. Adopting the Nutanix platform is so much more than just a shortcut to cloud excellence, it is also a chance to truly master database management in the cloud.
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure(NCI) standardizes the way you manage and deliver data at any scale. From the start of your cloud journey to the optimization of databases and all the way to the end user computing phase, NCI is the foundation of every aspect of your hybrid cloud and data control endeavors.
Database management best practices form naturally on a platform that promotes them by design. Contact us today to ask about the role we can play in helping you master database modernization.
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