Bluewolf claims trimmed costs with remote DBA

Bluewolf claims trimmed costs with remote DBA

Releases a study showing 60 per cent cost reduction with its remote DBA services

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

NEW YORK, USA: Bluewolf , an IT consulting firm, has come out with the results of its study, "Rapid ROI with Remote DBA: The Operational and Cost Benefits of Bluewolf's bw.DirectDBA Remote Database Administration Service," revealing that database management costs can be reduced by up to 60 per cent with its remote DBA managed service.

The release goes on to add that with the average cost of an in-house DBA at $138,000 per year (including benefits and training), compared to $54,000 a year ($4,500 a month) for the bw.DirectDBA service, companies can reduce database management budgets by as much as 60 per cent by outsourcing to Bluewolf. At a contractually set price, it can allow for more granular and effective financial planning for future IT expenditures.

According to Michael Kirven, co-founder and principal at Bluewolf, “With our remote database administration solution, we act as an extension of your staff, and are the only remote administration service that combines the cost efficiencies of remote administration with an onshore staff.” It goes on to claim in its release that its Remote Database Administration (DBA) managed service, bw.Direct DBA, reduces the cost of day-to-day monitoring and maintenance of databases such as Oracle , MySQL and Microsoft SQL.

Heineken USA, Benjamin Moore & Co., Ogilvy & Mather, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. and Cooper Health Systems are some organizations that have been trying Bluewolf for remote DBA services.

“Bluewolf’s database monitoring services provide us with access to a level of monitoring services we could not afford to build internally,” said Raul Velaquez, Data Architect, Heineken USA Inc. “Their support, guidance and response times have been unbelievable.” For Heineken USA, a premier beer importer in the United States, Bluewolf manages its Oracle 10g database that houses all of the company’s information on sales, inventory and orders.

“The remote DBA service allows organizations to offload monitoring and proactive maintenance. Managers are able to reduce the risk of a single point of failure while enabling internal resources to work at 100 per cent capacity. With our on-shore remote DBA staff, there is also eliminating many of the problems around time zone and work day gaps caused by offshore outsourcing.” Bluewolf claims.

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