TRANSFORMING DATABASE OPERATIONS WITH NUTANIX AND HPE
Data and automation – automation of business processes that can acquire, transform, and act on data to deliver outcomes – are the key to success in the digitized economy. Businesses today demand the cloud-like agility and cloud-like economics of automated IT infrastructure and databases delivered as a service.
More data is being collected, stored, transformed, analyzed, and acted upon than ever before. So, automation is especially critical here, in that it allows organizations to achieve faster time to value – an important metric for digitized organizations.
The explosion in data generation has led to growth in the number of database platforms and instances deployed across organizations of all sizes. Many IT organizations and database professionals struggle to manage this, resulting in database operations not optimized for performance, agility, security, or cost.
This brief will explore the challenges that businesses and IT organizations face in greater detail. It will also examine how solutions like Nutanix Era on HPE GreenLake for databases can help drive optimized database-as-a-service (DBaaS) environments through a combination of right-sized infrastructure and automation.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION REQUIRES DATABASE OPERATIONS TRANSFORMATION
Every successful digital transformation project requires a greater reliance on technology. This begins with modernized infrastructure, optimized for the workloads and applications populating the datacenter. While this may sound like a simple statement, the impact on IT operations is anything but.
An IT organization that fails to transform its operations will fail the business. Operating, application, and database deployments will continue to take weeks, causing business units to form shadow IT operations by utilizing the public cloud. This dynamic will further stretch IT organizations, requiring multiple consoles and toolchains to manage the sprawling data center environment. And the cost to the business can be catastrophic.
The challenges faced by database administrators (DBAs) and database professionals are arguably more complex, and the impact of failure on the business can be more dire. DBAs in today’s enterprise organizations are asked to do far more with far less. And while many would argue that the role of the DBA is transforming, a more accurate description is that the role is expanding.
