optimizing your postgres roi through best practices

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Expert Guidance: Optimizing Your Postgres ROI Through Best Practices

For more details on how to optimize your Postgres ROI please email [email protected]


Matt Cicciari Director, Product Marketing

EDB Speakers

Debra Brucato Director, Services Product Management


•  Can my existing database architecture and deployment strategy keep up with demand?

•  What if I didn’t have to contend with the process and expense of hiring another DBA?

•  How can I improve my team’s ability to resolve complex database management issues?

Agenda


Why Expert Guidance is Needed

Markets are changing rapidly and becoming significantly more complex…

By 2028, 75% of S&P 500 list will change

By 2020, there will be 25B devices generating data


It’s all about minimizing risk….

Keeping your DBMS Strategically Aligned

•  Avoid the complexity and risk of building out your DBMS environment “as you go.”

•  Keeping your DBMS up-to-date for security patches, fixes, etc.

•  Ensuring Best Practices


Enterprise Architecture Service

EDB Postgres setup or architectural review that follows best practices

Deliverables Installation of EDB Postgres and Tools

High Availability using EFM

Disaster Recovery using BART, PITR

Single Master Replication

Management and Monitoring with PEM

Security Control

Operational Readiness Plan

•  Prepare a mission-critical production environment that is highly available, scalable, and secure

OR •  Review existing architecture

to ensure it is implemented according to a best practices


•  AHC looks at: −  Operating system −  Hardware configuration −  Database parameter settings −  Performance tuning opportunities −  Backup strategies −  General database practices −  Upgrade requirements −  High availability options

•  Identifies −  Short term opportunities −  Strategic opportunities

•  Jointly develop a go-forward plan for implementing recommendations

Architectural Health Check


An Expensive Process to Hire a DBA

Technical •  Skills do not map

from Vendor X to Postgres

•  Need for specialized expertise beyond current team

Business •  No budget for hiring

DBA staff

•  DBA staff turn-over

•  Can’t meet commitments

Shared •  Limited supply of

qualified Postgres DBAs

•  Business & Technical Ramp-up

You are not alone…


EDB Postgres leadership provides best practices for you!

World-Class Remote DBA Services

•  Optimize in-house resources for mission-critical activities

•  Lower total management costs •  Leverage EDB state-of-the art

expertise •  Accountability for results •  Around-the-clock assurance •  Best practice technology &

procedures •  Lead technicians manage &

coordinate your support •  No hiring or training costs

Full DBA Support for Postgres Databases


Expert Guidance: 5 Advantages of RemoteDBA Services −  How RemoteDBA Services works −  Applicable business & technical uses cases −  Customer success stories

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Empowering You to Resolve Issues

Where do you

look?

What do you

Know?

How do you

learn?

Who can you

trust?

How much time do YOU have?


Advocating your

success

Understands your environment, team,

and goals

Bridging needs and solutions: best

practices, adoption approaches, rollout strategies that can

work for you

Aligns Postgres database

infrastructure with business goals

Helping you to maximize the value

of your Postgres investment

Roadmap planning with confidence

Technical Account Manager


Planning

• Infrastructure review • Architecture advice • Scalability design

DBMS

• Software upgrades • Application migration planning

Disaster Recovery

• Strategic DR review • High Availability (HA) guidance

Performance

• Tuning advice • Recommendations

“Care & Feeding”

• Manage technical issues

• Mentor team

Technical Account Manager: Typical Tasks


•  Postgres Training −  Certified Postgres expert trainers −  DBA & Developer course tracks −  Postgres Certification source

•  Course Offerings −  Foundational and advanced levels −  Building, migrating, optimizing tracks −  Maximize learning with presentation, labs, Q&A −  Customization is available

•  Learning that fits your schedule −  Online, On-Demand, Classroom & On-site

EDB Global Education Services


Training eSubscription •  Unlimited access to full

on-demand training library •  Fresh content added monthly •  Module access at the time

you need it •  Value-based pricing model -

pay once for full year of access

Traditional Model •  6-weeks of access for a single

on-demand course •  Access to only individual class

purchased •  Take course within 6 weeks

and no further access •  Pay as you go

Postgres Training eSubscriptions

Structured Flexible VS.


•  Industry-recognized global standard for certification

•  Convenient online exam format

•  PostgreSQL and EDB Postgres programs −  Associate-level −  Professional-level

•  Maximize results through proven skills

Validation: Postgres Certification from EDB

PostgreSQL

EDB Postgres Advanced

Server


Postgres Experts

Strategic Engagement

Build Trust

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But Don’t Take Our Word For It…

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-- Emmanuel Olart Manager, Technical Services Bioclinica

“During the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in 2014, I had been awake for 52 hours with only 3 hours of sleep managing our…transaction queue. This year, my focus has been on Thanksgiving left overs. Many thanks to EDB products and services for the stability and performance in our…system.”

-- <Name Withheld> VP of Engineering <Company Name Withheld>

“The [EDB] engineer not only solved my problem, but gave me multiple ways that I could do it to help me choose what was right for my environment. Very detailed and easy to follow instructions as well.”

-- <Name Withheld> DBA <US Government Agency>


Expert Guidance to Accelerate Success

Subscriptions • Subscription models include: • Software licenses • Tools for Performance, Scalability, High Availability, and Management

• Software Maintenance • Premium Support Services

• Subscriptions for Production • EDB Postgres Enterprise • EDB Postgres Standard

• Subscriptions for R&D • EDB Postgres Developer

Services •  Comprehensive

professional services that define success from the outset

• Enterprise Architecture Services (EAS)

• Architectural Health Check (AHC)

• RemoteDBA

• Upgrade Services

Training

•  World-class training that fits your needs: •  Classroom & on-site •  Online •  NEW - eSubscriptions

•  DBA & Developer tracks available

•  Courses cover administration, migration, performance tuning and more

Certification

•  Convenient online exam format

•  PostgreSQL & EDB Postgres programs •  Associate-level •  Professional-level

•  EDB Training curriculum supports Certification program


For more information please email [email protected]

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