Your databases are where the record of your business actually lives. This capability covers keeping them fast, keeping them available, keeping them recoverable, and moving them when the platform underneath has to change. Unlike the platform work, these are services defined by function rather than by product — the engine matters less than the discipline.
Services in this capability
Database administration
Performance tuning, capacity planning, access-control hardening, patching and upgrades — as a project or an ongoing service.
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High availability and clustering
Replication and cluster topologies designed to agreed recovery objectives, with failover actually tested.
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Backup and recovery
Backup designed around proving you can restore — automated, encrypted, monitored and drill-tested.
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Disaster recovery and business continuity
Recovery objectives, a secondary site, written failover procedures and periodic exercises.
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Database migration
Engine, version and platform migrations with rehearsed cutover, verification and a tested rollback.
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ETL and data integration
Scheduled, monitored pipelines between operational systems and reporting, entirely inside your network.
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Engines we work across
PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB, and Microsoft SQL Server — including mixed estates, which is what most institutions actually have once different applications have each brought their own database along.
Where the work is a migration, the most common direction we are asked about is away from proprietary per-core licensing towards PostgreSQL. We will give you an honest assessment of whether that is realistic for your specific application estate, including the cases where it is not.
Engines we work across
