What happens when database operations stop being a bottleneck and start becoming a business accelerator? Companies are looking to simplify database management, reduce risk, and prove tangible business impact.
Experts from Nutanix joined DBTA’s webinar, From Database Bottleneck to Business Accelerator, to explore the findings of a Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) study on Nutanix Database Service (NDB), which delivered a composite 136% return on investment based on in-depth interviews with multiple customers worldwide, while dramatically modernizing how they manage databases.
Ahmad Elayat, senior director of product management at Nutanix and Marsha Pierce, global director, practice lead SE - portfolio NDB at Nutanix, break down the financial model behind the ROI, the operational efficiencies driving these gains, and the real-world use cases that show how infrastructure ops and database teams can deliver more value with fewer resources.
According to Elayat and Pierce, the database management bottleneck consists of manual, time-consuming processes that hamper innovation and increase operational risk. DBA teams struggle to keep up with developer requests, leading to weeks of wait time. Managing "ever-increasing database estates" across fragmented manual processes is complex.
Database patching can lag compliance requirements by months. Patch testing is costly and time consuming. Patching of database HA clusters is complex and maintaining patch levels across the fleet is challenging, Elayat and Pierce said.
The Nutanix Database Service is a next-gen, hybrid multi-cloud DBaaS platform. NDB can speed up patch testing, they explained. Create a thin clone of your production database in minutes. Create a thin clone of your production database in minutes and once validated, apply the same patch to production with a single click.
Database administrators can receive a morale boost by enabling efficient hybrid multi-cloud support, eliminating "off-peak" patching and routine tasks, and shifting focus from Ops to innovation.
According to Elayat and Pierce, by using NDB, organizations can realize the following benefits:
- Enable operational standards at enterprise scale for your hybrid multi-cloud database fleet
- Eliminate mundane heavy lifting of managing your database fleet
- Deliver IT infrastructure savings without compromising performance
For the full webinar, featuring a more in-depth discussion, Q&A, and more, you can view an archived version of the webinar here.