New Delhi, May 02, 2018: IT infrastructure management has become increasingly complex for enterprises since the term DBMS was coined. A decade ago, managing a database was a more challenging task with a DBA expected to thoroughly know the intricacies of the database and be proficient enough to manually correct and tune the database for optimum performance. Today, the requirements have changed to a whole new level of demand and complexity. The use of different databases and DBMSs such as relational and non-relational have also added to the challenge of managing the databases better and ensuring a smooth and error-free database environment.
With database automation, an enterprise not only saves on precious time when it comes to database or application releases, but is also able to optimize its resources for innovation and security initiatives. Below are five advantages that database automation offers to an enterprise:
- Acceleratesapp release cycles
For an enterprise with a customer-facing application, it is imperative to keep the application up-to-date and make frequent upgrades to offer better features, resolve bugs and deliver great customer experience.
Database automation helps in accelerating the application release cycles by expediting the database change process. While defining a time frame for such tasks, one must ensure that it should comprise of only automated machine time with no human intervention. This will eventually help you to arrive at a better release timeline.
- Ensuresoptimum testing
Automated testing ensures maximum coverage, facilitates the validation of various aspects of a database such as – data validation, data certification, security checks, schema verification and cross verifying with UI test results.Also, in case of regression testing, automation helps in decreasing the testing time-frame immensely.
- Improvesapp performance &data security
With automation, an enterprise can ensure mitigation of risks and errors during the production stage and enhance application performance and data security.Automation will decrease environment deviation and assist in minimizing errors in production. This will enable an enterprise to detect and correct errors at a stage where they do not account for a lot of time and cost.
Data security also receives a major boost as automation ensures 100% adherence to governance and compliance standards.
- Ensures Better Visibility
A dashboard can be created that lets youtrack changes and can help monitor what was changed, where and by whom. It ensures better visibility by keeping Dev & Ops well synchronized.
- Optimizes bandwidth
Whenresource bandwidth consumption for database management and audits are minimized, an enterprise can devote more resources to initiate innovations on application as well as enterprise levels. The ability to create a report and share it in a minute during the audit is exactly the kind of result an enterprise would expect from its automation measures.
The benefits of database automation can be reaped by companies irrespective of their operational scale.Both, a large enterprise or a small startuparebenefitedas DBAstackle similar challenges while managing databases. The core task brief remains constant that maximum work needs to be executed in stringent time-frames while ensuring error-free results. Automation, thus becomes the key to providing a stable, error-free and efficient database environment. It also lets experts release more bandwidth from mundane and repetitive tasks and channelize their expertise towards more innovative and creative tasks, further empowering the enterprise.
Corporate Comm India(CCI Newswire)
