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]
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Matt Cicciari Director, Product Marketing
EDB Speakers
Debra Brucato Director, Services Product Management
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• 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
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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
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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
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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
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• 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
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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…
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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
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Expert Guidance: 5 Advantages of RemoteDBA Services − How RemoteDBA Services works − Applicable business & technical uses cases − Customer success stories
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RemoteDBA Webinar – Detailed Overview
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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?
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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
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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
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• 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
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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.
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• 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
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Postgres Experts
Strategic Engagement
Build Trust
Stay Informed
EDB Services
Choosing the Right Partner for Services
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But Don’t Take Our Word For It…
“EDB became part of the Bio-Imaging design team and helped us to make valuable improvements to our replication design.”
-- 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>
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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
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