Database as a Service (DBaaS) Making Business Operations Agile By Abhrasnata Das

Database as a Service (DBaaS) Making Business Operations Agile

Abhrasnata Das | Thursday, 11 August 2022, 14:05 IST

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DBaaSIn the age of big data, businesses rely on large amounts of data to make informed decisions. Databases allow them to store, manage, manipulate and retrieve data for daily business functions. But, it can be a daunting task to host and manage the massive amount of data that is generated with each passing day.

The cloud based, Database as a Service (DBaaS) can be a perfect answer to the underlined challenge. With DBaaS on the line, it eliminates the need for businesses to set up database systems in-house and allows them to deploy databases on the cloud without any development hassles. In the cloud based databases, the service provider handles all the administrative tasks, including installation, configuration and performance management, maintenance, patches, upgrades, backups, disaster recovery, and scaling the database.

Flexible Operations

Outsourcing database management offers a substantial financial advantage. Business doesn’t have to incur costs for expensive hardware, software licenses, cooling infrastructure and the power bills. Moreover, there is no need for staffing to build a database system in-house or maintain, monitor, and manage it. With the DBaaS service provider taking on all the administrative tasks, it frees up the team and allows them to focus on more productive tasks for the innovations and growth of the business.

For small-scale businesses, it will enable them to get started quickly, set up database systems in just a few clicks, and have access to technologies only large companies usually have with minimal costs.

Moreover, with the cloud based systems being agile in nature they adapt seamlessly to any updates accordingly to business or technology advancements. DBaaS allows rapid provisioning of database resources to provide new computing resources and storage facilities in the minimum possible time. Together, this adds agility and flexibility to development teams.

The result is that developers and DevOps teams don’t have to bother with complex and time-consuming database provisioning and management, which can take anywhere from several hours to days to complete. Instead, they can focus on delivering on the business goals.

Increased Data Security

Security is one of the most significant challenges in the DBaaS domain. As more and more enterprises host their data in the cloud, it’s crucial for DBaaS providers to prevent unauthorized access to data resources, disallow misuse of data stored on third-party platforms, and ensure data confidentiality, integrity and availability.

DBaaS providers typically offer enterprise-level security that supports encryption and multiple layers of security to protect data at rest, in transit, and during processing. It also improves the data center security by adding strategic layers of protection that keeps the data and systems safe. 

DBaaS providers also offer SLAs that guarantee integrated access management and control of regulatory compliance standards. They also offer end-to-end network security with micro-segmentation and virtual private networks.

24/7 Availability

In today’s fast-paced digital world, maintaining 24/7 operational uptime is a must for any modern business. Outages are directly proportional to the loss of revenue. As digital transformation becomes more and more essential, it’s increasingly important that the application service of an organization remains up 24/7 without any downtime. If there’s any kind of system failure, the systems should be intelligent enough to recover from them in no time. 

The DBaaS model provides maximum high availability and runs at peak performance. It provides zero or no-data loss tolerance and eliminates a single point of failure. In case of any kind of failure in a single database instance, the platform automatically reroutes traffic to a standby instance and maintains uptime. The model is intelligent enough to accept the database connections and allow enterprise developers to perform database queries even in the case of a system failure.

Shift towards DBaaS

Today, it is a well known fact that more and more organizations are adopting cloud infrastructure. They are not only moving their generic business process applications on to the cloud, but their mission critical data and applications.

According to a recent study, 75 percent of all databases will be deployed or migrated to a cloud platform by 2022. This means that organizations are in need of cloud services and solutions that will support their cloud native architecture. In fact, business organizations are developing or sourcing cloud native applications since it allows the business processes to be more dynamic. This goes for their database management systems as well.

Presently, many enterprise organizations are looking at data intelligence and data analytics for better business performance. All this requires strong database systems and highly efficient data warehouse solutions. Organizations in eCommerce, e-learning, media, gaming, mobile applications and the fintech segments, also need capabilities like auto-scaling, tiered storage architecture, disaster recovery, quick backup, secure access to data, and the ability to handle big data in real-time interactively.

 

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