The financial services sector is undergoing a transformation. Tech giants like Google, Apple and Amazon are stepping into the frame with digital wallets, mobile payments and lending services, and FinTech startups are setting new standards for digital innovation and customer experience. All of which is encouraging established financial service companies…Read more
In the Foundry Team at Redgate, we’ve been looking into how data professionals manage the complexities of their wider data estates. One aspect of this is configuring, deploying and monitoring drift across their numerous servers. I recently wrote a deep dive into our qualitative research findings and, alongside that research, we also conducted a…Read more
If you’ve read the Accelerate State of DevOps Report from DORA and the 2019 State of Database DevOps report from Redgate, you’ll see how they resonate in terms of the benefits to be gained from adopting DevOps. In short, 85% of organizations have already adopted DevOps or plan to do…Read more
In 2018 we ran the industry’s first ever state of SQL Server monitoring survey. We received an excellent response from over 600 people in a range of sectors, in organizations of every size across the globe. They provided valuable insights into what they thought the biggest challenges were for them…Read more
If developers and testers work with a database that has similar data characteristics and is of a similar size to production, it will lead to fewer surprises when deploying database changes and help the team troubleshoot urgent production bugs or performance issues. Likewise, if developers have an easy way to…Read more
Producing a great wine is a really complex process, one that takes many years to master. Offering and selling wines to customers is another complicated process. There are many stores specializing in only one product. If you want that product, you’ll go to that store. Wine stores are an example…Read more
2018 will be remembered as the year the world stood up and took note of how slack some organizations were being with their data. The EU enacted the GDPR – the most far reaching data protection law so far – which seemed to lead to a snowball effect. Japan, Australia,…Read more
In 2018, the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) was faced with the challenge of putting into place the processes that would enable it to comply with the GDPR as well as upcoming legislation like the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and New York’s SHIELD Act. Each of the regulations…Read more
DevOps is gathering pace. More and more organizations are recognizing that by encouraging collaboration, cooperation, and communication, they can release features faster and offer advantages to customers sooner. That’s the promise, but in order to adopt DevOps, organizations need to be able to embrace the openness it requires, change the…Read more