Microsoft SQL performance and protection is critical for business success
Challenges
Scalability – Database servers do not scale linearly as connection counts increase. SQL connections are highly memory and CPU-intensive, causing increased latency and poor application performance. In addition, a spike in SQL queries can overwhelm a database server’s connection limits.
Availability – Balancing Microsoft SQL queries amongst database servers is complex because each SQL query can have widely varying runtimes rendering a simple, load balancing solution ineffective. TCP load balancers do not have the SQL transaction intelligence to divide the workload efficiently or accurately monitor the health of the database servers. Automatic failover also comes at a steep cost and requires extremely complex architectures with Microsoft SQL Server clustering. For non-clustered solutions, failover involves manual triggering and custom scripting.
Security – Regulatory and compliance requirements, such SOX, PCI DSS, HIPAA and other privacy laws require extensive logging and real-time monitoring of users and data. Security is also needed to protect against unauthorised data access and prevent sensitive data from being leaked or compromised.
SQL security
> Database discovery
scan networks to detect and discover new databases.
> Server hardening
> Secures privileged accounts
> Discover otherwise unmanaged accounts in SQL database
> Securing SQL servers with SSL Certificates
encrypt data that is transmitted across a network, between the SQL
server and client applications. SSL can be used for server validation when a
client connection requests encryption.
> Vulnerability Management
for databases and connecting applications across your enterprise.
> Monitors all access to personally identifiable data (PID)
residing in your databases.
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> SQL Injection / DDoS protection
> Secure remote connectivity via encrypted VPN tunnel
> Password Security
> Securely use SQL for secure password storage
> Database encryption
> Key Management & Granular access controls.
Key Management provides separation of duties between IT functions and
encryption key management, including key generation, storage, expiration
tracking, and auditing of key operations.
> Protect against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack
that targets MS SQL servers (reflection-based)
> Protect SQL server port and connections
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SQL Database Backup & Recovery
- Meet recovery SLAs with application-aware storage snapshots
- Simplify protection for Always-On configurations
- Speed test/dev with automated database provisioning from backup copies
- Snapshot management
- Protect BLOB storage with corresponding SQL database backups Backup to the cloud / Amazon S3
> Data Deduplication > Backup, restore, and cloning
Full backup and restore of the SQL Server database, includingincremental backups (if you want to restore the database to a certain date) .
Data Storage Platforms
> Flash disk storage systems optimised for VMware.
> Boost performance and over all long term costs with Fast SSD/flash Hybrid Storage Arrays.
> Quickly deploy virtual machines and applications, including test/development environments.
SQL Health Monitoring
> Agentless monitoring of SQL Servers
> Server Performance Monitoring > Monitor availability, performance and health of SQL Servers |
> Detect performance degradations before they impact users
> Drill-down to bottlenecked component > Database activity monitoring and reporting automatically documents your policy compliance against internal policy and compliance. |
Accelerate and Optimise Microsoft SQL
Cloud and Global Office Performance
Accessing it over the WAN can be slow and will impact the productivity of disbursed users in performing their job effectively.
> Data Deduplication and Compression
> Reduce Latency > Quality of Service (QoS) |
> Provide dedicated bandwidth to SQL data and applications.
Lost or out-of-order packets are recovered and re-sequenced in real time, avoiding re-transmission delays. |
SQL Database Load Balancing
> Meet the challenges of increasing access to your business-critical data.
> Client connection management |
> Heath monitoring
> Service failover > Read / write management |
High Availability / Automatic Failover
Provides a cost-effective high-availability solution when compared to clustering.
WAN optimisation
Latency and limited bandwidth associated with most WANs can make this process time consuming and bandwidth intensive.
> Quality-of-service (QoS)
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> Bandwidth Management
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Cloud Managed SQL Database
> Fully-managed cloud SQL database service
> ISO/IEC 27001 compliant. > Easy to set-up, maintain, manage and administer relational MySQL databases in the cloud. |
> Automated replication, patch management and database management.
> Automatically encrypted and replicated |
Policy & Compliance
- Enforce Internal Policy & Compliance PCI-DSS, SOX, Basel II, GLBA, and HIPAA.
- Monitors all access to personally identifiable data (PID) residing in your databases.
- Auditing technology manages critical tasks such as change control, internal controls, privileged user monitoring, privacy protection and policy based auditing.
Professional Services
Increase performance, efficiency and stability of your SQL Server environment
Optimise and configure SQL Server database to achieve optimum output
> Microsoft Gold Partners
- SQL Server database mirroring
- SQL Server database log shipping
- SQL Server AlwaysOn technologies
- SQL Server clustering
Database Penetration Testing Services
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