By Jimmy Jobe, CEO of Verge Technologies
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. 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.
The platforms and 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. AWS has AWS-centric tools. The same is true for every other provider.
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 manages 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 and SLAs, elimination of database downtime and outages due to workloads and machine failures, as well as provides cost optimization capabilities.
The ability to truly manage your infrastructure environments across all CSPs and 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.
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. As Cloud Convergence becomes a reality, the days of manual database migration are numbered.
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.