Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Database-as-a-Service will be fastest growing Cloud Service in 2014 and beyond [feedly]

Database-as-a-Service will be fastest growing Cloud Service in 2014 and beyond
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As compute, storage and networking as-a-Service are commoditized, Database-as-a-Service is poised to become the next high value cloud offering that enterprises and Cloud Providers must pay attention to. Delivering databases securely with high levels of reliability, data durability, performance and privacy or governance is challenging and that's the reason it's an attractive high margin services for Cloud Providers (public or managed private cloud providers including VMware VSPP providers offering vCloud or managed vSphere-based solutions). Cloud Providers offering managed hosting services to enterprises can now consider delivering Database-as-a-Service and accelerate time-to-market for their customers while lowering the overall cost of managing and delivering services themselves.

Cloud offerings are drastically changing the way enterprise customers (especially developers) consume application services. Primarily due to the instantaneous access  of Amazon Web Services, developers and Ops alike have come to expect instant availability of managed cloud services such as databases, containers, cache clusters, load balancer, etc. It's hard to imagine, that enterprise developers will call their providers to install, setup and  configure databases and expect to have it ready in few days or weeks. If developers don't get instant access to application infrastructure, they will look for a provider that offers it.

451 Research Group estimates an astounding 86% CAGR growth in Database-as-a-Service offerings and revenue potential to be around $1.8B in 2016. MySQL Database-as-a-Service and NoSQL Database-as-a-Service both have large revenue growth rates of 81% and 86% CAGR respectively. Compare that with CAGR of only 33.1% of onsite MySQL deployments.

Cloud Providers, MSPs and hosting providers can take advantage of their trusted relationship with enterprise customers and offer low-cost efficient Database-as-a-Service offerings or risk losing customers to large providers who do.

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Benefits of Database-as-a-Service to Enterprises

One of the most critical part of enterprise IT infrastructure is database. Developers require quick access to database servers for development, QA needs, or clones of production databases, or Ops teams may need to replicate an application environment for upgrades, patches, disaster recovery or backups. Providing access to databases securely and in a timely manner, in addition to adhering to compliance regulations has become a critical function of IT. CumuLogic Database-as-a-Service solution offers the following benefits:

  • SQL and NoSQL database support: Deliver SQL (MySQL and Oracle) as well as NoSQL (MongoDB and Couchbase) databases from a single console. Users can select any flavor of database, storage size, instance size and the target infrastructure to provision databases on.
  • Instant availability: Database-as-a-Service provides quick and easy access to databases. Developers, QA, and production Ops teams alike can provision databases and schemas instantly and never worry about managing operations (backups, restore, etc.)
  • Low cost of operation: Each provisioned database instance comes with built-in monitoring, automated backups and snapshots eliminating the need for manual configuration, patching and updates.
  • On-demand scalability: DBaaS automatically adds additional replicas in order to scale applications to meet peak demands. Replicas provisioned are synchronized with master databases and give developers the option to split database read-and-write operations between the replicas and master databases to manage unpredictable spikes in the workloads.
  • Reliability and data durability: Reliability is achieved by provisioning multi-availability zone database instances. Two master-master replicated instances on different zones provide higher level of availability and can handle failures of entire cloud zones. In case of failure of primary database, the DNS endpoint is switched to the secondary master so applications experience zero-to-low downtime. Adding replicas to each master can provide higher levels of data durability in case of failures.
  • Security and governance: Role-based-access control provides an easy way to setup policies to allow or deny access to certain actions on the database instances. Policies can be setup to grant access to a development environment or production environments for specific groups of people.
  • Integrated with CloudStack, OpenStack and VMware: Out-of-the-box integration with IaaS such as OpenStack and CloudStack and VMware allows providers and enterprises to launch Database-as-as-Service in as little time as 30 days.
  • Bare metal support: CumuLogic can also provision databases on bare metal servers for high performance workloads.

Read more details about Database-as-a-Service here

– Rajesh Ramchandani, VP of Products

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