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Unleash Your “cognitive surplus”
By Eric Gross | June 5, 2008
A recent meme - cognitive surplus - has risen that describes the resources that have been brought to bare to accomplish a useful task once people get tired of wasting their time. The discussion started with a talk that shows how people have so much free time to work on improving the Wikipedia (the estimate is that about 100 million human-hours has gone into the project so far). Imagine if your car suddenly learned how to drive itself, leaving you to be able to do what you wish with your commute - you would suddenly have a few free hours per day for accomplishing something new - perhaps a college course, reading the paper… even putting on your make-up or chatting on the phone without fear of a ticket or accident.
Imagine then if your databases could “drive themselves”, while database vendors have been pumping out databases for decades, only recently has extensive automation been available to drastically reduce peoples’ needs to manually perform common tasks. GridApp’s automation technology reduces the human time required to do everything from provision to patch.
What could you do now with the cognitive surplus released by automating your database stack? There are plenty of tasks that DBAs can still do which are not yet fully automated such as performance tuning and planning for future growth/migrations - coincidentally, tasks which make money for the company. Or perhaps it leaves more time for applying the often-ignored security patches or testing backups and restorations.
GridApp has automated many of the common database tasks that suck up your team’s valuable time and energies; this not only improves database management efficiency, but also yields increased value from each resource because of the intrinsic standardization that comes with automation.
Never leave your potential surplus on the table!
Topics: Agile, Clarity, Consistency, Database Automation, Efficiency, People