Golden data cloud
“The data is corporate treasure,” says Gil Nizri, CEO of starting DBMestro database automation. However, the ways corporations manage their treasures have not continued with the new role of data as a significant factor in business success. “If we trust cars to save the treasure, why are we still digging the moon with a spoon?” Ask Nizri.
In 2024, 403 billion gigabytes of new data were created, copied and consumed. In the enterprise, this ever -increasing data is stored and organized into databases, ready (or not) for new applications of it. Over the next three years, 92% of companies plan to increase their investments driven by McKinsey study data and sizes, the long -term chance of it to $ 4.4 trillion in increased potential for productivity increases from corporate use.
Moving on to the new era, many companies are engaged in a wide project of their IT infrastructure re-archstructure, giving a prominent place to the “Data Pard”-Linking and Integration of Internal Data Silos and External Data Resources. Proper management of the size and rapid importance of corporate data assets has become a critical business issue.
“Everyone I have spoken to in recent years has spoken about modernizing his IT infrastructure, digital transformation and corporate skill,” Nizri says. A significant component of this modernization is the Devops Movement. Devops is a software development practice that combines development and operations. It has revolutionized the distribution of software, emphasizing continuous cooperation, automation and improvement. These new software development practices result in application that are increasingly effective, with many companies reaching full or partial automation.
While many companies have adopted a form of frequent updating (new omissions) of their applications, they have not approved any automation for new omissions or new updates of their databases. While the database code usually accounts for 20% of the application code, Nizri calls on failure to automate database releases “20% of the database-Devops-GAP”.
Nizri describes the management of manual database release in a typical business with 220 applications: Each app goes to 4 different environments, eg, cloud or at home, for a total of approximately 1,000 environments, and each app has about 30,000 changes to the database per year.
Previously, only database administrators had exclusive knowledge, authority and control on corporate databases and the data organized in them. Today, many different types of employees – developers, data engineers, data scientists, etc. – require access to databases to do their jobs. They work on different business functions and are based on different places and time zones, but their work and access to data are not coordinated.
Manual access to database updates is prone to errors and takes time. It leads to frequent (or worse, unplanned) planning and costly downtimins, security violations, slow distribution of new business solutions, failure to respond immediately to competitors’ movements, and disregard existing policies.
Nizri says that the elimination of “manual disquestion”, ensuring that databases keep the rhythm with Devops, results in the following improvements: from a code release every three weeks to 2,400 omissions per month; From 4 hours spent in each release code in 60 omissions a day, fully automated; And from 6 days to 15 minutes for the code placement.
Another benefit, according to Nizri, is that the adoption of the practice of automating the database emitting DBA, Devops engineers and data architects from their traditional role such as “plumbers and data” of corporate data for a new role of interested business parties responsible for developing and implementing data -driven solutions and actions. Rote work automation leads to increase, increasing the workplace so that employees contribute to a higher level. “I never saw automation replacing a data -related employee,” Nizri says. “It simply gives them more power and ability to do more interesting and influential work.”
Reporting a recent annual study of Fortune 1000 and Global Business Leaders, Randy Bean wrote: “The generating has prompted greater interest and investment in data and extensive data skills.” Summing up the results of last year’s survey, Bean and Tom Davenport concluded: “Data … have been one of the biggest rush of innovation both in business and in society in recent decades and a major impetus for economic success in the 21st century.” Data management, increasingly at the center of business and government activities, requires an improvement in 21st century skills.