Some time ago, Redgate created the free Microsoft Azure storage tool, Azure Explorer. It’s a neat solution that lets users manage all of their Azure blobs in one place, reliably upload and download them through its responsive UI, transfer them between storage accounts, and easily search and filter blobs. While it sat outside Redgate’s... Read more
Without a monitoring system in place, DBAs can find they never have the time to implement new processes because they’re bogged down with too many daily checks, and other painstaking investigatory tasks. On top of this, they’re continually firefighting problems that are surfacing instead of being able to spend time finding and fixing the... Read more
Every company is a software company – Satya Nadella IDC predict that in less than three years, 60% of global GDP will be digitized, and certainly, most businesses report that they plan to invest heavily in transforming the way they deliver technology-based services, aiming to serve more customers and to serve them better and... Read more
Oracle OpenWorld is less than two weeks away and we’re excited to be back to talk about Compliant Database DevOps. Oracle OpenWorld is a huge event, which is focusing on bold ideas. There will be more than 2,000 sessions and 250 partners on hand to learn and network with. If you are planning to... Read more
In its 19th Annual Global CEO Survey, PwC found that over 80% of CEOs in banking are concerned about the speed of technological change, more than any other industry sector. These findings were mirrored in a survey from NewVantage Partners which found that 64.5% of the C-suite have a priority to “accelerate the speed... Read more
The Accelerate: State of DevOps Report 2019 has just been published. Accelerate is the longest running study of DevOps in academia or industry and this year’s report is the latest six years of research and had more than 31,000 survey responses. In the 2019 edition, research again shows that DevOps drives business value: high... Read more
There’s been a lot of excitement about the book Accelerate, which summarizes research from the past several years of the State of DevOps Report from DORA (which Redgate sponsors). Perhaps the most popular topic is the “four measures of software delivery performance”, sometimes called “Accelerate metrics” or simply the “four key metrics”. We’ve started... Read more
Ahead of our attendance at IDC’s DevOps Conference in September 2019, we approached Jen Thomson, IDC’s Senior Research Director & Lead for Accelerated App Delivery Practice, to help us articulate how pivotal the database estate and the supporting team are in enterprises seeking to optimize software delivery. The resulting Executive Brief, Compliant Database DevOps:... Read more
Redgate has just published the 2019 State of SQL server Monitoring Report, so I thought I’d read it to find out if the results it reveals chime with my own experience talking to large, distributed enterprises about the challenges they face when it comes to monitoring. Based on a survey of 820 database professionals... Read more
When you’ve got a great idea for transforming software development or IT processes in your organization, it can be frustrating. You might have a clear picture of what you can achieve, but often you’re not sure how to get buy-in from key stakeholders, or how to change your company culture. It can be made... Read more
Compliant Database DevOps
Standardize team-based development
Automate database deployments
Monitor performance and availability
Protect and preserve data
