The majority of enterprise customers have database administrators in-house and can’t really run IT without some form of them internally. So conceded U.S.-based remote database providers Database Specialists, dbaDirect and Bluewolf, which eWEEK recently talked with to get a better sense of what data management outsourcing for the enterprise is like, and the challenges of being an outsourcer.
However, the providers added, although data management is so crucial to large businesses that it has to be secured and managed internally, there is a complementary role they can play in the monitoring, maintenance and production work—the administrative tasks that can bog down in-house DBA staffs that are awash in business-driven technology projects and processes.
