Outsourcing your database administration (DBA) services has become prevalent in recent years. Businesses that outsource DBA responsibilities will realize the benefits before their competitors who don’t. These benefits include reduced staff expenses, an expanded field of expertise, increased productivity, redirecting resources to meet your company’s core services and goals, and comprehensive support, security, and peace of mind. Check out our blog to see the 5 reasons to outsource your DBA.
Reduced Staffing Expenses
DBAs can be expensive to hire full-time. Most small businesses require at least 2-3 DBAs to cover larger environments, 24x7x365 monitoring and service, and disparate on-premise, cloud, and open-source platforms. If your business happens to operate 24 hours, 7 days, a week, 365 days a year, there’s a good chance you’ll need enough DBA coverage to cover all hours so that your operational functions aren’t impacted. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) like DataStrike can effectively provide a more comprehensive and expanded level of support. Outsourcing your DBA to a third-party MSP will reduce staffing expenses and since these resources are not a part of your full-time staff, you save money on benefits, PTO, holiday pay, etc.
Leverage Expanded Expertise
As database platforms and applications continue to evolve, you may need additional DBAs consistently in tune with the latest developments to ensure your investment is fully maximized. DBAs focused on a single company may find it difficult… even impossible… to focus on expanding their skills and knowledge. Outsourcing to a third-party MSP for DBA support helps fill in discernible skill gaps your internal team doesn’t possess and does not have the bandwidth to learn. Moreover, an MSP service to multiple companies provides more layers of experience and expertise - expertise that can benefit your company exponentially!
Reduced Turnover
Eventually, workers and employers can reach burnout. DBAs may experience mental exhaustion endlessly monitoring and troubleshooting systems while keeping up with the continuous flow of new technologies, features, and functionality. When DBAs leave, you will not only have to replace the resource coverage, but you will potentially lose priceless technological and company knowledge.
As the turnover wheel keeps spinning, you’re hiring less experienced talent than their predecessors. Not only does this carry a perpetual expense of recruiting, vetting, and hiring, but it also requires extensive onboarding and training to get them to a level that meets and exceeds your company’s needs. As a result, outsourcing is a win-win situation for companies needing to remedy the symptoms and execute a cure.
Increased Productivity
As you reallocate resources to the core areas of your business, you will see an overall increase in business productivity. You’ll drive business initiatives forward instead of being mired in a ruthless cycle of constantly replacing DBAs. This may lead to increased customer satisfaction as your company can focus on improving levels of service and offerings while leaving the day-to-day aspects to a team of outsourced professionals.
24x7x365 Support
Finally, outsourcing to a third-party MSP gives you 24 x 7 x 365 support without overburdening your current DBA staff. Most teams do not work optimally after hours, covering while peers are on vacation, etc., and key issues may be missed. Outsourcing to a provider that delivers 24x7x365 support will help mitigate potential issues and downtime.
About DataStrike
As a specialized database and infrastructure Managed Services Provider (MSP), DataStrike works with companies across various industries to systematically optimize their data infrastructure investment leverage. Thanks to our expert experience gained from cultivating relationships via client engagements, we can provide your business with best practices that will ensure maximum database performance and a stable foundation. DataStrike provides assurance to all clients we service that their database systems are covered from here on out. DataStrike works to provide services for platforms such as SQL Server and Oracle; cloud environments for AWS, Azure, and OCI; and open-source databases like MariaDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.