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Modernizing SQL Server Estate

SSTech offers guaranteed 40% ++ cost savings on your SQL Server Investment through our professional database services ensuring improved uptimes and performance.

Our services will help customer to re-structure their SQL Server estate. Microsoft has recently changed their licensing structure from Server-Cal to core-based which may increase your IT Budget. SSTech SQL subject matter experts can help you reduce the licenses and structure your SQL Server estate

SSTech SME team will help you identify the features that your database uses and recommend the right edition of SQL Server and identify the right candidates to be consolidated.

Benefits that customer can achieve using our consulting Services:

• Reduced hardware cost.
• Lower administrative costs.
• Reduced data center space.
• Reduced SQL Server licensing cost.
• Reduced Windows Server licensing cost.
• Greater control of IT Services and Infrastructure.

Managed DBA Services

SSTech has a pool of experienced database administrators who can manage your SQL Server Infrastructure. DBA Services / Consultation services shall be provided remotely by experienced certified database administrators. We use our deep understanding and real-world mission-critical database management experience to ensure you maximize your SQL Server investments.

SQL Server health check will examine all your SQL Server environment and fix the issues before it becomes a disaster. Most of the mission-critical databases are left un-attended or fixing issues more of a reactive basis which is the biggest concern for every organization.

Advantages of Managed DBA Services:

Reliability:

• Receive regular maintenance and monitoring of your databases.
• Proactive monitoring solutions are designed to detect any potential problems before they occur, which allows customers to avoid the high costs that result from downtime.
• 24/7 coverage – on-call basis during weekends and non-office hours.

Flexibility:

• Increase resource coverage as required for large projects, vacation, and sick time
• We enable the customer to focus on core business objectives while we take care that your DB’s are running at peak performance in line with our service level agreements

Database Migration Services

Having your infrastructure and data environment secure and up to date is critical for any organization. The reason for that is only the constantly growing need to obtain more insights from your data. Multiple applications and systems developed many years back are running older version of SQL Server posing security and data management risks.

SQL Server 2005 was announced out of Support on April 12, 2016, running your business-critical application using SQL Server 2005 is not safe as Microsoft has already stooped the hotfixes and security patches. SSTech experienced DBA’s will help you migrate your database from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2014 / 2016 based on the business needs.

SSTech helps customers to identify un-supported features and assisting the customer’s technical team to make the necessary T-SQL changes to ensure that applications will run without any issues.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Solution

With business becoming increasingly competitive, even the shortest of the downtimes can prove risky for the reputation of an organization. SSTech offers Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Solution for SQL Server, SSTech DBA’s have extensive experience helping customers to achieve high availability of their mission-critical databases using SQL Server always-on technology. SSTech helps organizations to prepare for any unexpected events such as earthquakes, terror attacks, national emergencies, and so on. We also help customers establish the processes and procedures an organization must put in place to ensure that mission-critical applications can continue during and after a disaster.

Features and Benefits of using Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery:

• Zero loss protection. - AlwaysOn provides for zero data loss protection. This assumes that you are using synchronous data replication.
• Automatic Failover. - You can set your AlwaysOn group to failover automatically or manually. If you use automatic failover, you must also use synchronous data flow. If you are using asynchronous data flow, failover must be manual.
• Enhanced Performance. - Because you can offload some of these read-only and maintenance tasks to the secondary replicas, the performance of your primary replica will be enhanced. Because a lot of these operations can consume a lot of resources, offloading them will optimize the performance of your primary replica.

Database Performance Tuning, capacity planning and optimization

Achieving maximum SQL Server performance through performance tuning is critical to business success. Every point of failure means money lost. SSTech offers expert-level SQL Server performance tuning services that can help to eliminate your SQL Server performance challenges.

Spending lots of money on improving infrastructure may give you a temporary solution but one should understand what is causing the problem. SSTech DBA’s have ample amount of real-world experience diagnosing and quickly analyze your system to determine the cause of the issues and shall prepare the recommendation that shall solve the issues. SSTech offers tailor-made solutions that fit client needs by understanding the ERP / Business applications that are using the SQL Server and deeply analyzing all aspects that can cause performance bottlenecks.  We have experience solving customer’s pain points and rectified them after carefully analyzing the cause of the issues.

Cloud Migration

SSTech offers Cloud Migration services to migrate customers on-premise SQL Server to Cloud infrastructure and help customers achieving the flexibility and scalability that Cloud infrastructure providers offer to customers. In today’s world, every organization moves towards to cloud way as on-premises SQL Server implementations because of an expensive affair. Any SQL Infrastructure shall be migrated to the cloud if an organization policy is open for the cloud.

SSTech DBA team has extensive experience migrating the on-premise databases to Cloud infrastructure and ensuring the latency is reduced and ensuring the optimal performance is achieved. We have real-world experience sizing the cloud infrastructure requirement such as bandwidth, storage, VPN gateway, and other necessary workloads.

We have a complete understanding of the best practices, procedures, and policies that need to be implemented while moving the SQL Server to the cloud.

Benefits while moving to Cloud:

• Flexible & scalable.
• Automatic software upgrades.
• Secured.
• Zero capital cost.

Database Design and Audit Consultation Services

SSTech offers database designing consultation services to help organizations to design robust table designs for optimal performance from SQL Server databases. We believe that poorly designed databases are the main reasons for the performance bottlenecks of SQL Server-based applications. SSTech DBA team have many years of consulting experience to help customer to achieve good database design keeping the business growth in mind.

Auditing SQL Server databases are essential to enforcing compliance and it is necessary for the analysis of database actions, troubleshooting problems, investigating suspicious and malicious activity. This is a CCTV solution for your databases.

A key part of any data security strategy is the ability to track who has accessed or attempted to access your data. This provides the ability to detect unauthorized access attempts or, if necessary, to piece together the actions of malicious insiders who misused their legitimate access.

SQL Server Audit goals.

• Security.
• Performance.
• Management.
• Discoverability.