Data Management as a Service
Does your company work with a large amount of data? Are you struggling with unpredictable costs? Perhaps you’re looking for a data management solution that improves the reliability and efficiency of your business-critical databases while ensuring you meet regulatory requirements. A robust Data Management as a Service (DMaaS) solution might be just the ticket you’re looking for.
At Moser Consulting, we pride ourselves on our team-based approach to DMaaS. We champion proactive, relationship driven services, customizations to meet your current and emerging objectives, and continuous improvements as your needs change and grow. Before we talk more about the Moser difference, let’s discuss what exactly data management is, how the “as a service” part comes into play, and some of the challenges DMaaS addresses.
What Is Data Management?
In its most basic form, data management is a process that involves collecting, storing, using, transforming, and archiving data. The idea behind data management is easy enough: companies need a safe and secure solution to storing and accessing their data to make informed business decisions, grow, and innovate.
Historically, companies have relied on siloed data management processes, growing their infrastructure as their data needs grew, too. This legacy approach worked for years and allowed IT teams to add hardware, employ new disaster recovery strategies, or build out compliance monitoring to address new regulations. In today’s digital world where companies have more data than they’ve ever had before, this kind of piece-meal data management system may not be the best use of your IT team’s time or business’ budget. That’s exactly where Data Management as a Service comes into play.
What Is DMaaS?
Data Management as a Service refers to the process of employing a DMaaS provider to manage your business’ data at scale. This includes things like monitoring database performance, preventing potential failures or security breaches, improving analytics, assisting in meeting regulatory requirements, and more. DMaaS is an increasingly popular solution for organizations looking to take their data to the next level.
If you’re not familiar with DMaaS, chances are you’ve heard of other “as a service” solutions like SaaS (Software as a Service) or IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service). DMaaS takes a similar approach to these business models; rather than asking you to install and maintain your own database solution, DMaaS providers take care of it all, partnering with your company to build and manage a customized solution that fits your needs.
What Is the Importance of Data Management as a Service?
For many businesses, the purpose of a data management system comes down to this: DMaaS has the ability to free up your IT team to focus on other tasks and responsibilities while also minimizing the unpredictable costs associated with traditional data management solutions. But these aren’t the only issues that DMaaS solves. Here are just two of the ways that DMaaS is addressing today’s modern challenges.
Unstructured Data: In recent years, our data has become more complex and vast—thanks, in part, to the Internet of Things (IoT), social media, audio and video files, and more. These non-traditional datasets present exciting and innovative possibilities for companies to drive revenue or innovate more than ever before. However, unstructured data is challenging to ingest and analyze—it doesn’t fit into traditional databases. DMaaS can help companies meet this difficulty head on to ensure they can use all of their data to drive their business to new heights.
Cybersecurity: Cybersecurity is essential in 2022 and beyond. A recent survey of more than 1,000 IT professionals indicated that 80% of their organizations were hit by ransomware in 2021, and more than 60% of those who were attacked paid the ransom. Not only does this impact a company’s bottom line, but it has the potential to impact their ability to function for hours, days, or even weeks. DMaaS doesn’t stop with the storage and management of data; it includes essential measures like data backups, ransomware responses, authentication, and encryption to keep your data secure.
The Moser Difference: Proactive Management for Your Data
At Moser Consulting, we take a service-oriented approach to DMaaS that provides our clients with predictable, business-focused database services that optimize, manage risk, and deliver efficiency. This includes:
Administration: We provide routine maintenance and quarterly checkups, in addition to security, patching, and backups. In an age where data breaches and ransomware attacks have become a when—not an if—businesses need a data management solution that can ensure privacy and security.
Database Consulting: At Moser, we’re concerned about your current and future objectives. We offer strategic advisory services—including consulting on road mapping and SQL development—to ensure your business is getting the most out of your data.
High Availability: Companies with hybrid or remote employees must ensure their data is securely available from wherever their employees are working. Our services include capacity planning, troubleshooting, setup, and configuration to ensure the high availability of your data.
Monitoring: This involves the monitoring of metrics at the operating system level, including CPU, memory, and disk performance, in addition to instance level metrics.
Performance Tuning: Our team runs query analyses and index analyses and provides recommendations to your team. Our services are collaborative, and performance tuning is designed to boost performance while easing any pain points for end users.
Support: Whenever you need help, we’re here. With on-call support 24-7, the Moser team can assist you with whatever issues arise.
Ultimately, we measure our success by your success. We consider ourselves a partner and an ally for our clients, pairing top talent with the right technology at the right time to drive results to new heights. That’s why we assign each of our DMaaS clients with an engagement manager who will ensure business objectives and goals are being met. Engagement managers partner with your team to define the scope of the project, manage resources, set roles and responsibilities, assess the status of the project, and monitor overall performance.
Ready to transform your data management? Reach out to us today to find out what Moser can do for you.
