2020 New Year Resolution – Optimal, Scalable and Reliable Database Infrastructure Operations with MinervaDB

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Happy  New Year

MinervaDB wishing you all a very happy and prosperous new year – 2020 ! When we talk to our customers (both existing and prospective) and other community stakeholders during the month January, We get to know their resolutions (specifically on Business and Database Infrastructure Operations) and every company is so very passionate to share their goals for  2020, They actually spend so much  energy is  articulating this very well, loud and clear so that the true spirit never get diluted. In this blog we would like share with you few interesting points which really can influence all of the readers (most of our expected audiences are geeks and technology business owners) too. This post is mostly about how our resolutions are very well aligned to our customers ambitions / goals, As we often say – We are not an yet another DBA outsourcing company, We are always an extended team of customers committed to building optimal, scalable, highly reliable, fault-tolerant and secured Database Infrastructure Operations, Our accomplishments totally depend on the customer success.

Growing older by another year –  Growth is awesome for every business

Every successful business build loyalty and customer satisfaction year-on-year, They solve more customer problems faster and scale the growth ( with much deeper technology commitments ) to create an impact, so the following are our customer goals for 2020:

• Every year the internet penetration rate is going higher (especially in the emerging markets) and that means the companies (majorly consumer internet properties) should scale performance for increased data volume and transactions, So where are they investing ? Please read the bullets below to know more:
  • More responsive observability and monitoring infrastructure – Proactive health-check and diagnostics  / forensics of Database Infrastructure Operations
  • Capacity Planning and Sizing cost efficiently, Spending more or less for new infrastructure is equally bad, The oversized  capacity planning / sizing is just a waste of money and when undersized, It will be a serious hit for both business and other respective stakeholders (customers, investors and definitely employees)
  • Database Systems cannot be the single-point-of-failures ! Yes, All our customers has this one common requirement: Database Systems should be high reliable / available, redundant and self-healing.
  • We are definitely going to generate more data in 2020 than what was accomplished on 2019, So we have now bigger performance challenges to address –  Database Systems Performance is the most valued enabler in Data Powered Commerce Platforms
• Technology Roadmap – Is it all going to cloud or bare-metal also expected ?
  • None of our 200 odd customers are on 100% cloud though we have majority of customers on bare-metal servers (for both strategic and law-of-the-land reasons)
  • More than 50% of  customers are now more serious than ever before  on data privacy and security, Interesting time ahead of us in MinervaDB as we always  love to get challenged technically.
  • More investments for automation and efficiency management – The database infrastructure is growing aggressively for most of our customers, This  means more data to manage for  us and we at MinervaDB love “DevOps. for Database Ops.” so enterprise-wide we  are automating from incident reporting to workflow operations.
  • Technology adoption strategy – Vendor neutral and independent, Our customers are so passionate about open source Database Systems, They are exploring equally now MySQL, MariaDB, MyRocks and PostgreSQL
• Business Strategy – Customer Success and Employee Satisfaction
  • Customer Success:
    • High performance transaction performance to  process orders and complete transactions faster
    • Building systems for scale
    • Available 24*7*365 – Database Systems are available 99.999% for solving customer problems
    • Secured Database Infrastructure Operations – Data Privacy and Transaction Security
  • Employee Satisfaction:
    • Improve work-life balance – Investing to build scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant and reliable database infrastructure
    • Do not disturb your resident DBAs on vacation – Plan and subscribe MinervaDB Vacation DBA Services proactively
    • Learning and professional development program – Investing for competency development and improvement
    • Automation and tools  – Automating redundant & effort intensive tasks for cost efficiency and quality management

Twenty Reasons to engage with MinervaDB on 2020

1. MinervaDB launching PostgreSQL Consulting and Support from Q2 2020, Great value proposition for customers – Single vendor engagement for consulting and 24*7 support for MySQL, MariaDB, MyRocks, ClickHouse and PostgreSQL
2. Vendor neutral and independent Open Source Database Technologies consulting and 24*7 support  provider – Consulting, Support and Remote DBA Services for MySQL, MariaDB, MyRocks, PostgreSQL  and ClickHouse
3. MinervaDB for startups to large corporations – You can engage us for as-low-as 4 hours / month to 24*7*365, To know more please refer to MinervaDB Remote DBA subscription plans 
4. Build secured Database Infrastructure Operations with MinervaDB:
   • GDPR: General Data Protection Directive
   • PCI DSS: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
   • HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
   • HITECH: Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
   • Data Protection Act: United Kingdom
   • SOX: Sarbanes Oxley
   • FERPA: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
   • And many more
5. MinervaDB delivers 24*7 consultative support for MySQL, MariaDB, MyRocks, PostgreSQL and ClickHouse
6. Emergency Support available 24*7 – Not a MinervaDB customer ? No problem, We can deliver 24*7 emergency support on MySQL, MariaDB, MyRocks, ClickHouse and PostgreSQL for you
7. Flexible pricing – Pay us only for the hours engaged
8. Consulting and professional services for MySQL, MariaDB, MyRocks, ClickHouse and PostgreSQL available both onsite and remote
9. Competitive pricing – We are an virtual corporation so we don’t charge the customers for our infrastructure cost, What you pay us goes purely for our unmatched technology team
10. Pay per incident option available – You need our support in just fixing a single incident ? No problem, We have that option available.
11. Big Data Analytics and Columnar Store expertise – MariaDB ColumnStore and ClickHouse
12. Automation and DevOps. for building WebScale Database Infrastructure Operations
13. We operate 24*7 – Our team operates from multiple locations worldwide so we are available 24*7
14. Transparent billing  – We publish our consulting (https://minervadb.com/index.php/mysql-consulting/), support (https://minervadb.com/index.php/mysql-support/) and remote DBA services (https://minervadb.com/index.php/mysql-remote-dba-services-by-minervadb/) rates in the website. YOU WILL NEVER EVER PAY EVEN A SINGLE DIME MORE THAN WHAT IS MENTIONED IN THIS WEBSITE FOR OUR SERVICES, There are no hidden charges in our contracts !
15. Full-stack DBA operations – We are experts in performance, scalability, high availability, disaster recovery, database security and database infrastructure upgrades / migrations. You can stop worrying about data and focus more on business
16. Customer centric and boot strapped – Our business is 100% customer centric and we earn only from consulting and remote DBA services so customer success is our primary goal. We are not yet another DBA outsourcing company rather an extended team of our customers committed to optimal, scalable and highly available database infrastructure operations
17. Web-scale DBA expertise – Our consultants have worked for several planet-scale internet properties and we know what it takes to build an optimal, scalable and highly available web-scale database infrastructure operations
18. Vacation DBA Service – We can support your database infrastructure operations when the resident DBA is on a holiday / vacation so you can guarantee an optimal work-life balance for your DBA
19. Flexible payment options – Wire, PayPal, Credit/Debit Card, Cheque and Cash
20. Transparent ticketing system – We share with you the detailed work report of what we have done for your database infrastructure, This also includes how you will get benefitted with change we have done. We love absolute transparency and detailed documentation

Conclusion

We are living on an Datanomy world, The data powers business and Database Infrastructure going unavailable will directly impact customers, employees and investors, We at MinervaDB is committed to building and delivering optimal, scalable, highly available,  fault-tolerant, reliable and secured database infrastructure operations for our customers globally. To know more on how MinervaDB creates value for your Database Infrastructure Operations, Please download our corporate flyer PDF here.