Database Administrators Face
According to a Redgate poll, data professionals are under more significant pressure than ever. They maintain the performance of rapidly growing server farms. They also manage cloud migrations, address increased security and compliance concerns, and deal with personnel and recruitment challenges.
The daily strain on Database Administrators increases with a cumulative and continual increase in the number of servers. In the poll, 65 percent of DBAs said that they became individually responsible for more database instances as data. The hybrid structure of estates is based on different use cases and makes matters even more complicated.

Global data storage capacity would grow from 6.7 zettabytes to 16.1 terabytes. This 240 percent rise in infrastructure and servers is under strain on DBAs and data professionals. It’s critical to analyze and improve the health of a growing estate to ensure performance and security.
The epidemic has just added to the perfect storm that has engulfed DBAs. Monitoring on-premises computers have become more complex as a result of remote working. The complexity and speed with which companies have shifted numerous services online have increased the complexity and speed with which they collect and access data and hiring freezes and layoffs.
The monitoring study results are identical to those of a previous survey done last year, revealing the development of server estates. It is just one element of a more significant problem that DBAs face daily. Instead, we must evaluate the story’s repercussions and how DBAs and data teams may meet performance SLAs.
Redgate provides a deep dive into the survey results in a new insights study titled “The real-world challenges of growing server estates” and offers advice on how to best cope with the issues of growing estates. Also, inspiration from businesses that have already overcome and prospered in the face of adversity.
Over 2,500 IT experts from DBAs to Analysts, IT Managers to C-level Directors from every industry and continent participated in Redgate’s fourth Status of Database Results. A survey provided deep insights into the daily scenarios and difficulties data professionals face. Also, the monitoring team at Redgate will analyze the survey results. In future reports to find insights into the best monitoring technologies that bring business value, a closer look at security and compliance issues, and the complexity of cloud and hybrid estates.
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