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Data Platform Management

Our Data Platform Management service is the modern way of ensuring your data platform is supported by a team of highly-qualified and  experienced data professionals with the skills to support your business at a fraction of the cost.

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Benefits

The Business Advantages of DPM

Managing and supporting data platforms requires many specific data skills and software based tools. Many businesses want to or need to work with an outsourced team of experienced data professionals who can manage data platforms quicker, better, and cheaper than in-house teams. DPM provides a flexible and proactive approach to data platform management.

Reduce Costs

We help you to reduce your data platform management expenditure, freeing up budget to invest in other IT projects.

Optimise performance.

We continuously monitor and support your data platforms and data pipelines to ensure your data continues to flow.

Reduce Business Risk

We help you mitigate the impact of any data quality issues by monitoring data hygiene whilst in transit.

Services

Do you need to add or bolster database resources?

You may have either a resource or skills-based challenge or you may need to improve or change the way you manage your databases. Our customers naturally fall into one of three categories who have either:

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No Database Administrator

As data volumes continue to grow we help you to rationalise, migrate and integrate your data to keep your data organised and stored in the correct formats.

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A Single or “Accidental” DBA

We ensure that your database is running at optimal speed, backed-up, recoverable and always available so you can concentrate on running your business.

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A DBA Team

A picture tells a thousand words so we help you to present your data so it can reveal insightful trends, opportunities and issues that you can address quickly.

Benefits

When might you need DPM?

You may have either a resource bottleneck or skills-based challenge or you may need to improve or change the way you manage your data platforms. Our customers naturally fall into one of three categories who have either:

No Data Professionals

No specific responsibility for data platforms or databases and no known need or budget for a full-time data professional

This is the most risky as no one has been formally trained for data recovery or platform continuity. We hear from these companies the most usually during or after a disaster as struck.

It's the you don't know what you don't know that bites you.

A Single or “Accidental” Data Professional

Where one person has all the knowledge and responsibility about the organisations data, or a person has been tasked with DBA or data engineering duties but have no formal skills or training everything can appear great until suddenely they aren't.

One experienced DBA or data engineer is good but leaves risk when they are on holiday or off sick. An accidental DBA can leave you with a false sense of security until disaster strikes and you have to frantically google for a solution. Too much stress!

An Existing Data Team

You have an internal data team but most of their time is spent on BAU activities and not focused on delivering the ever growing list of data projects the business needs to be delivered. This can be new aquisitions requiring migration to your shared infrastructure or new data sources coming online that need to have their data brought into your data warehouse.

We can take over the low value but necessary BAU activities to free your team to work on those business visible projects or even provide additional data professional resource to get projects completed on time for minimal additional cost.

Work is either constant with new challenges being thrown at your team all the time or it has peaks and troughs. By shifting left the BAU activities you can focus your high cost resource on delivering those projects or use our resource to scale up to cover those peaks.
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What DPM provides

Shifting left of low value tasks

By pushing the low value but important tasks to us we ensure they are completed for the minimum possible cost with the same care and attention you expect your team to deliver.

Data Platform and Pipeline Monitoring

We watch your data platforms and pipelines to ensure that they are running as normal. Any anomolies are picked up and the process and platform owners informed in the SLA.

Reduced Management Costs

It comes down to how can you get the most from your budget. By allocating knowledgable internal resource to projects, they get completed quicker with a higher level of quality.

More hands and more eyes

Many hands make light work but many eyes ensure issues are noticed and resolved quicker. More resource, well allocated with multiple redundancies ensure smooth running systems.

Services

Why DBAaaS is the right choice for Database Administration

You may have either a resource or skills-based challenge or you may need to improve or change the way you manage your databases. Our customers naturally fall into one of three categories who have either:

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Quickstart up. DBA resource available immediately

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Access to a highly experienced and fully certified team with skills covering the full database landscape.

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Cost effective packages to suit level of support required.

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No recruiter fees.

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Ability to scale up or down with your data platform.

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Peace of mind that your databases are top priority for us

Why Cyber Samurai

We are a data & AI focused company, using what we have learned over the decades to help other companies secure, optimise, analyse and monetise their data.

When you work with us, you can expect a direct relationship with us and no middlemen. Our services are designed to offer the best value. Data & AI skills are expensive but they can make the difference between good data driven decisions and bad ones.

Most importantly, our samurai are experienced in the technologies that you use because we use them everyday too!

Contact Us to Discuss DPM Today

Why DPM is the right choice for your business

Our service is designed to free up your internal resource whilst ensuring the lower value task of data platform management are still completed to a high standard.

Quick start up

We can onboard your business quickly making resource available immediately to discover and setup monitoring.

Highly experienced

Access to a highly experienced and fully certified team with skills covering the full data landscape.

Cost effective

Packages are designed to suit all levels of support required. From start ups to multi billion multinationals.

No hidden fees

No recruiter or agency fees or additional hidden costs for support requests, just one fixed monthly service price.

Scale up and down

New platform? Just add them to your agreement and remove old consolidated or decommissioned systems.

Safe pair of hands

Peace of mind that your databases and data platform are our teams top priority. Our eyes are always watching.

Frequently Asked Questions

We get a lot of frequently asked questions so we have put the most common ones here for you to browse.

Have an uncommon Data Platform Management question? Get in touch and we will be pleased to answer it.
What is Data Platform Management?

DPM is a high value service that provides data platform skills to companies of various sizes that require more resource to extend and expand their internal teams skills.

What are the levels of support offered?

Monitor and Notify 9 - 5
Monitor and Notify 8 - 6 (Extended Hours)
Monitor and remediate 8 - 6 (Extended Hours)

What is covered by DPM?

Depending on your support level you will ether get notifications that issues need to be resolved passed to your team, issues will be resolved by our team during the day or issues will be resolved by our team 24/7

What data platforms are covered?

We primarily look after Microsoft SQL Server database platforms, on premise and in the cloud. We can also manage Microsoft Fabric analytics platforms as part of DPM.

We have a DBA why should we use DPM?

There are daily DBA tasks that need doing like checking backups ran, monitoring performance, monitor SQL Agent jobs, ETL processes and pipelines and so on. We make it easy to shift the low value tasks to us so your team can concentrate on the fun project work. Having one person is also a single point of failure and having us there knowing your systems and processes provides redundancy, holiday cover and a wider range of extra date skills.