Remote DBA as a service

Your databases need permanent maintenance and management if you want to keep your company running smoothly and keep your data safe. Along with other services, Monin’s experts provide remote DBA as a service to get you what you need.

Remote DBA services you’ll get

By preventing problems daily, immediately tackling the ones that do appear and constantly keeping updated on innovations, a database administrator instantly delivers results and noticeable impact.

Some of the services you’ll get from our team:

• Database service desk (during business hours from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., 24/5 or 24/7)
• Preventive maintenance, including capacity management and performance management
• Patches, service packs and upgrades
• Data refreshes (production, testing, development, acceptance)
• Database monitoring
• Backup & recovery testing
• Performance Tuning
• Database Security

All of these services result in:

• Round the clock availability of a DBA expert
• Knowledge of the latest database versions and features
• Easily scalable DBA services whenever your business grows
• No resources spent on education, absence or vacation time
• Short hiring process to find a DBA that fits your needs
• Only hiring a Database Administrator when you need them
• Focusing existing resources on more strategic initiatives

You’ll get a well-organized Database Administrator working at the heart of your company’s IT, where the databases keep your business alive.

DBA as a service packages

You can choose from 2 DBA support packages based on your specific needs. They include everything you need to unburden your team from database and cloud administration tasks, getting maximum availability and security while keeping your budget under control.

1. DBA as a service Flex

The Flex package offers technology-based support rather than system-based, for instance support for your Oracle database technology.

With Flex, you’ll pay a fixed monthly fee based on your service window (working hours, 24/5, 24/7) regardless of how many databases need tending to.

Moreover, you’ll get a reactive approach. Nothing happens without your say-so.

Depending on your needs, you can choose from several options within the Flex package, making it even more proactive by adding Monitoring and/or Health Checks:

2. DBA as a service Enterprise

With the Enterprise package, you’ll get a clearly outlined set of services tailored to your systems.

For a fixed monthly fee based on your needs, you’ll be completely free from any database management. We’ll take over monitoring, health checks, capacity management, release and patch management… Everything you need is taken care of.

With the Enterprise package, you’ll get the preventive approach. Issues are prevented or solved immediately, freeing you to focus on other crucial tasks.

Your enterprise package consists of 3 flavours:

(*) Our Performance Management Advanced includes Next-Generation Database Performance Monitoring and tuning

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Database technologies supported, no matter where

With our help, you’ll benefit from a wide array of technologies, like Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Oracle Linux, Oracle VM, Oracle Linux KVM, MySQL, PostgreSQL (community, EDB) and MongoDB.

Thanks to our partnership with Hestia Managed Services, you can also count on experts for support with other technologies you might need.

You can count on DBA as a service regardless of where your databases are located: on premise, in a public (Azure, AWS, Google and Oracle) or private cloud, or in a hybrid cloud environment.