Data Management

Flexibility and Automation Don’t Go Hand in Hand

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Solutions in the datacenter automation industry seem to be squarely focused on being an extensible framework versus a content rich solution. Considering we’ve been selling in this space for nearly 7 years now it is quite clear why this is an attractive option. Before I get into that let me clarify what I mean by [...]

Network World: Database administrators in high demand

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Matt Zito was quoted in this week’s IT Careers and Training Alert by Jon Brodkin.
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eWEEK.com Podcast: Automate Mundane Database Tasks to Increase Value

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Check out the following eWEEK.com Podcast: Mike Vizard talks with Robert Gardos, GridApp CEO.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Storage/Automate-Mundane-Database-Tasks-to-Increase-Value/
Length: 00:19:21
Database administrators spend too much time performing mundane database tasks, such as deploying, patching and troubleshooting, and managing a diverse range of databases, rather than using the data to create value for the company, says Robert Gardos, CEO of GridApp Systems. [...]

What is Your Chosen Method of Execution?

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

As part of our lives we perform actions to databases all the time. Perhaps the database administrative workload breaks down in the following way in your organization:

Installation of a new database - 10 times / month
Upgrade of an existing database - 20 times / month
Patch installation - 40 times / month
Administration activities - 20 [...]

Storing the Juicy Details

Friday, October 26th, 2007

I have been working recently on what is, for me, a large-scale project. I realize that this pales in comparison to the Manhattan Project and sending people to the moon, (US Progress of the past, Right Now) but still - for me this has been quite an enhancing experience. Our software product requires that we [...]

Data, Data, Everywhere…

Monday, October 1st, 2007

Data management is, for most organizations, driven by an extremely narrow set of requirements. If a customer makes an inquiry, you simply need to pull up that customer’s order information to give them sound support. If an application requires 100 parameters to be configured a certain way to work, one would suspect it [...]