{"id":10373,"date":"2018-07-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/threecloud.wpengine.com\/post\/modern-data-management-employment\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T09:12:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:12:58","slug":"modern-data-management-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/resources\/modern-data-management-employment\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Data Management Employment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you just starting your journey with Azure and cloud technology? We work with many clients in their journey and with helping them migrate data to the cloud. While working with clients we sometimes hear the following concerns from data professionals:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As we move our data to the cloud, what\u2019s my job going to look like?<\/li>\n<li>Will I eventually be out of a job?<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m currently managing all these on prem servers and if everything is in the cloud, am I still going to be needed?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today I want to ease the minds of those with these questions and talk about how those jobs are not going away, they\u2019re just going to change. Here\u2019s a look:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many DBAs today would describe their job as making sure servers are up and running; part of that includes things like operating system patches and software upgrades. If you\u2019re moving your data to a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, a lot of that does go away, there\u2019s not software upgrades, system patches or servers to manage. But there\u2019s still work to do with backups. Yes, backups are managed automatically with PaaS but there is work with things such as extending how long those backups are maintained. The product out of the box maintains your backups for a certain amount of time, but if you have requirements that dictate that you need them longer, that\u2019s going to take some work.<\/li>\n<li>Restoring your data doesn\u2019t happen automatically. If someone makes a mistake on their data and needs to restore a database from yesterday, that work needs to be done by your data managers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Security is not going to change. Databases still need to be secured and someone must manage things like granting permissions to new users or restricting access to new objects. They way you go about managing it may be different, but the work is going to be there.<\/li>\n<li>The whole idea of disaster recovery changes a bit as we move to PaaS and some new offerings. You\u2019ll have different options within Azure as far as redundancy and spreading your data across servers.<\/li>\n<li>In Azure, data managers can manage costs. It used to be that you bought your server and your licensing and that money was out the door. With Azure, data professionals and DBAs can manage costs by looking at how heavily our databases are being used and save money by scaling up or down a tier.<\/li>\n<li>With job monitoring, if you\u2019re using SQL Server Agent and you\u2019re running SSIS packages, that may look different but there\u2019s still work in making sure that things are working properly as we expect. There are also new features that we can enable to help with monitoring and alerting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3-mvdKEbWhE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, if you hear some of these concerns from your data professionals or have them yourself, relax, you\u2019ll still have your job and have plenty to do, it just might look a little different. But look at these changes as opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Need further help? Our expert team and solution offerings can help your business with any Azure product or service, including Managed Services offerings. Contact us at 888-8AZURE or\u00a0 <a href=\"mailto:sales@3cloudsolutions.com\">sales@3cloudsolutions.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you just starting your journey with Azure and cloud technology? 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