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IBM Technology Expert Labs PLAN and ASSESS Data & AI SingleStoreDB Offering on Azure
The objectives for our briefing is to listen to your needs and showcase how our offering will help you successfully setup and configure SingleStoreDB on Azure with reduced risk by leveraging our SMEs.
IBM Technology Expert Labs can help you optimize an existing environment for SingleStoreDB or help you refine a newly installed environment. Our subject matter experts can help your organization scale on Azure or hybrid cloud deployments leveraging our best practices approach. Our practitioners have experience across all vertical industries and have harvested our learnings and any assets to help your enterprise accelerate your adoption and learn how to integrate or extract your enterprise data into your modernized applications.
Business Challenges (discussed in the briefing) may include but not exclusive to:
Inability to setup automated deployment, monitoring, and maintenance
No in-house skills to integrate the data store with other Azure IaaS or PaaS services
No knowledge on backup and recovery of the database on cloud or hybrid deployment models
Inability to setup high availability
Key Activities for the Offering (discussed in the briefing) may include:
(a) Use case identification and validation (b) Delivery proposal development (c) Defining or reviewing architecture (d) Defining business value (e) Defining migration approach (f) Client data assessment (g) Use case demonstration and pilots (h) Solution validation (i) Solution enablement (j) Operations and management (k) Backup and recovery (l) Production readiness and Business continuity and other topics based on the briefing discussions.
Deliverables for the Offering (discussed in the briefing) may include:
High level architectural and planning document; Best practices principles recommendations; Demonstrations of previous MVPs (minimum viable products); Any reusable assets that can be shared to help your on-going efficiency in maintaining SingleStoreDB
Outcomes Desired for the Offering (which will be discussed in the briefing) may include:
(i) How to setup and configure with high scalability and fail-over aspects for this SingleStoreDB managed elastic cloud database;
(ii) Best practices approach to an architecture design that tolerates and recovers from failures;
(iii) How to setup highly resilient cloud infrastructure to support SingleStoreDB in Azure or hybrid cloud.
Pre-requisites:
A mature, existing SingleStoreDB environment or a new environment you plan to implement or have implemented recently.
Value Proposition:
Our deep, product technical consultants will help you plan for any 3rd party integrations (possibly IaaS and PaaS services on Azure) and/or on-premises for hybrid cloud deployments.
While most vendors may have database products IBM Technology Expert Labs professional services organizations have had over 50,000+ engagements globally and have harvested assets that can be leveraged for a highly successful deployment within your enterprise with reduced risk.