“The Emergence of Cloud Convergence: The Future of Database Mobility”
The emerging Cloud Convergence market is one that IT professionals can’t afford to ignore. As we continue to shift our data storage and processing needs to the cloud, the reality is that many companies are utilizing multiple cloud service providers (CSPs) to manage their databases. This dramatically increases the complexity of moving data and has created a need for true hybrid cloud management. A platform that provides seamless automated management, control, and mobility of databases in and across all compute environments in the enterprise, to ensure people across the enterprise have the data they need, when they need it. Verge has created and launched SentientDB for precisely this purpose. SentientDB provides a database management fabric across all compute environments in the enterprise to address these issues.
Automated management, control, performance optimization and workflow mobility really change the game in database management. The state of the practice today requires heavy time requirements demanded of IT professionals who are already overburdened with tasks. Currently, database management is a highly manual operation that involves a lot of pre-planning and man hours. According to this 2019 report from Forrester, “Database migrations, whether on-premises or in the cloud, are often complex, time-consuming, and expensive, largely because of proprietary data structures, data types, and SQL extensions.”
Database maintenance and migrations also require downtime and maintenance windows scheduled. For example, it can take a team of IT professionals’ weeks to prepare for and migrate databases from one CSP to another, or from their own premises environment to CSPs, not including the actual downtime and disruption to end users of actually moving the database. And it’s a task that is so crucial to the success of a company that mistakes can be costly, even catastrophic.
The platforms/tools in the market that offer some database management are mostly, if not all, very cloud/MSP centric. For example, Amazon’s migration tools help a client to get into Amazon (where Amazon makes money), but not into a competitor’s environments. Until now, there has been no platform that can manage databases across the board. Amazon does not offer tools to migrate from Amazon to say Google, or offer tools to migrate an enterprise from on-premise to say Azure. AWS has AWS centric tools. Ditto for all the rest.
However, with the emergence of Cloud Convergence, we are at the beginning of a new era in which managing many different clouds as one cloud is becoming a reality. And at Verge Technologies, Inc., we are leading the way with our flagship product, SentientDB, the only platform that does manage databases and their workloads within and across all compute and hybrid cloud management environments on a global basis with AI based self-managing and self-healing technologies.
Our vision for the future is a world where database management is no longer a heavy manual operation but rather an automated process that runs in the background, unnoticed by IT professionals with complete service assurance. SentientDB enables autonomous database management, performance optimization and workflow mobility for all databases in the enterprise regardless of location and compute/CSP environment. This capability enables the enterprise to meet their global service levels/SLAs, elimination of database downtime and outages do to workloads and machine failures as well as provides cost optimization capabilities.
With the ability now to truly manage your infrastructure environment(s) across ALL CSP and/ or datacenters as if they were located in one virtual datacenter is the definition of Cloud Convergence, SentientDB provides these capabilities and opens a world of opportunities never before possible. Imagine if a database Platform as a Service (dbPaaS) could run in the background, monitoring minute changes in cost/QOS from one CSP to another and then safely, and in real-time, migrating those databases to optimize overall expense/QOS. Or how about moving entire platforms from one CSP to another, freeing platform users from being held hostage to a specific CSP? These possibilities are no longer distant dreams but are right around the corner as SentientDB pushes the Cloud Convergence dream into a reality.
The number of CSPs that companies are using to manage their databases is growing every day. By some estimates, 70% of all businesses utilize multiple CSPs in addition to their on-premises environments. It is now more important than ever for IT professionals to adopt solutions that enable seamless management of databases between all CSPs and on premises environments.
The benefits of Cloud Convergence are numerous, including cost/QOS optimization and freedom from being held hostage to a specific CSP. As Cloud Convergence becomes a reality, the days of manual database migration are numbered. SentientDB is the solution that will make database migration a thing of the past, allowing IT professionals to focus on other crucial aspects of their work.
To learn more about Cloud Convergence and SentientDB, please visit Verge Technologies or contact John Breeden at John.breeden@vergetechnologiesinc.com
About the author: Jimmy Jobe is President and CEO of Verge Technologies, Inc., a Plano, TX based Database Platform as a Service (dbPaaS) focused on building solutions for the Cloud Convergence market. He has over 30 years of experience specializing in technology management with extensive entrepreneurial leadership in managed solution services and building new products, applications and businesses.