I am excited to cover the Microsoft Keynote on Day 2: Redgate Keynote: Simplifying Complexity – Making the Database Work in the Real World. As the database landscape grows increasingly complex and the pace of change accelerates, robust database practices are essential to manage this complexity effectively. However, fully leveraging the value of databases remains a significant challenge.
In this keynote, Redgate will present real-life stories, insights, and solutions, highlighting both the human and technical challenges associated with databases. We will be joined by a respected industry expert from IDC Europe and a fellow IT leader who is at the forefront of addressing these challenges. This session will feature the latest research, best practice advice, personal anecdotes, and demonstrations of new product offerings designed to help you harness the benefits of mature database practices and unlock the full potential of your data estate.
Updates to follow:
98 sessions, 50 clinic meetings, and a massive amount of networking events.
Day 2 will bring forth more sessions, expo expedition, community zone, community experts clinic and over 70 more sessions starting today.
Women in Technology Luncheon featuring Jes Chapman as the Keynote speaker will be in Ballrooms 2 and 3 over lunch.
Kellyn Gorman takes the stage providing some stats such as 21 % of organizations are using synthetic data for testing.
71% of organizations in the survey were using manual methods to create testing data, which is incredibly time-consuming.
Graham McMillan, CTO at Redgate, talks about all things releases and how the complexity is.
Digital Technology spend will expand seven times faster than the global economy in 2024
Speed (46%), Quality (43%), Efficiency (43%), and Productivity (28%) to help deliver excellence by 4 strategic priorities.
Excessive technical debt forces overspending on infrastructure
Average hours for DBAs to deploy databases is a thing
Time spent on new app functionality is part of slowing business.
Infrastructure environments are changing, bringing forth some additional challenges in today’s world which lends issues to Operational and Governance challenges. Security and Control, Cost Control, Cloud Sprawl, Visibility, Skills…..
Best practices to help get out of a messy middle, but Sharing the Pain: Core challenges for DevOps and DBAs (Operational challenges, evolving DevOps and business pressures, Heterogeneity, and Data Governance).
Six Core Data Desires – Data Mobility, Data Integrity and Quality, Data Availability, Cyber and Ransomware Resilience, Data Integration, Secure Data Access from anywhere.
One of the big discussion points is breaking down silos, automation, and making things go.
Building automation on deployments and supplying blueprints for specific configurations that will help provision Infrastructure Provisioning including databases, application servers, cloud services, and web or file services……brings forth ease of use, independence, efficiency, compliant by design, and securely by design. – APG
“Increased automation does not sidestep controls”
Data needs to become part of the deployment process where applicable
Be efficient, be innovative, and be secure.
74% of IT teams are now using more than one data platform.
25% are using more than four data platforms.
18% are making daily changes
50% increase in changes at short notice between 2022-24
84% who utilize AI say it delivers improved productivity to reduce time spent on DB deployments, Amplify the signal in the noise, and accelerate time-to-market
68% don’t collaborate between developers and operations. Bridging the gap between development and database operations.