In the second interview in this series exploring the role of IT Architects, Redgate’s Michaela Murray is joined by Chris Slee, an independent Solution Architect currently working with C5, an IT consultancy in Australia, on a number of projects for the Bank of Queensland. What are the challenges that he comes across when planning... Read more
We talk a lot about DevOps at Redgate and how you can include the database when you’re automating your pipeline so that you can release faster while keeping your data safe. But what’s it like in the real world? Is it as easy as we make it sound, or do businesses struggle with it?... Read more
The Financial Services sector is highly competitive, but organizations have a tough challenge: they must move quickly while protecting data across the Enterprise. Learn the key patterns used in this industry to improve both the speed and quality of database deployments. Read more
While there are organizations that will, for valid reasons, never move anything to the cloud, for the rest of us, the cloud is here to stay. In fact, for many of us, our cloud undertakings are growing and growing. The good news is, Redgate is right there with you. Many of our tools already... Read more
Redgate recently partnered with the analytics and data management consultancy, Coeo, in a joint webinar to discuss the benefits of Database DevOps for organizations everywhere. The presenters from Coeo and Redgate were faced with a series of previously unseen questions to answer on the spot using their expertise and experience. The result was a... Read more
In this series of interviews, Redgate’s Michaela Murray talks to a range of IT Architects to find out what they do, what drives them, and the biggest challenges they face when planning IT transformation initiatives. In this episode, Michaela talks to Darren Dawson, Pre-Sales Architect for WARDY IT Solutions, an IT consultancy in Australia.... Read more
As working patterns change dramatically in 2020, we see an increasing number of customers and community members shifting components of their environment into the cloud. The 2020 State of Database Monitoring Report began collecting responses in April 2020, in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Respondents reported an increased use of cloud platforms,... Read more
As a DevOps Advocate at Redgate, I frequently work with Enterprise customers to help them transform their software development process for databases across their entire organization. I don’t do this work alone: Redgate’s development teams have a strong customer focus. Engineers working on our DevOps solutions frequently join the Sales teams and the Advocate... Read more
In the first post in this series, I talked about the challenges for the US Government sector when attempting to introduce DevOps. The sector lags behind others such as Financial Services on every measure, yet the technical obstacles like a disruption to workflows and a lack of appropriate skills are the same. Beyond those... Read more
Teams implementing DevOps often encounter a significant obstacle: database folks are not all used to working with Version Control Systems (VCS). It’s important to overcome this obstacle because a VCS such as Git offers significant benefits for collaboration between database administrators and developers. Git provides: A platform for early review of code changes by... Read more
Compliant Database DevOps
Standardize team-based development
Automate database deployments
Monitor performance and availability
Protect and preserve data
