We are well aware of the fact that practicing the remote database administration for your company is cost effective, efficient, secure and high return on investment.
Most companies engage experts and professional s in order to meet their requirements, but the question is do we really need a full time resource for a part-time job? Company or individual is financially capable of holding a dedicated person if not required.
This is a critical decision to be taken by management before going through the whole process, which also involves some serious security concerns.
Why not extend the idea of outsourcing to local as well as offshore? Pakistan & India produce hundreds and thousands of highly educated university graduates each year and offer more for less.
There are companies in these countries, which provide 24 X 7 remote DBA support for databases like Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQLServer, Sybase, DB2 and PostgreSQL.
Sometime we may need onetime upgrade or switch to a different database.
So there is no need to worry about your back office overhaul and you can also have 99.
9% uptime.
Remote database administration is not only significantly reduces enterprise database management costs, but also increase reliability in a more scalable manner than traditional in-house methods.
Government organizations and NGO's internationally pushing "Go Green" agenda, which has a huge impact on global warming.
There are many other ways to have more healthy and safe environment and help each other going Green.
The point is to get aware of the upcoming changes and prepare our self for better sake and be part of it.