Cloud DBA - La metamorfosis

En este "Oracle White Paper" de Julio 2017:  The Rise of the Renaissance DatabaseAdministrator se hace un insteresante análisis de la transformación que está ocurriendo con el rol del DBA en las organizaciones, en el contexto de la acelerada evolución de la tecnología Cloud y la incorporación de soluciones DBaaS.

Aqui un breve extacto:

Clouds and DBA Tasks

For years, the roles and responsibilities of DBAs were well defined and contained within the confines of the data center or IT department. DBAs were the ultimate caretakers for their corporate databases, making sure everything was running smoothly, managing the loading and extraction of data, setting access rights and data security, and ensuring that everything was backed up. 
As cloud computing is accelerating the growth of data and the ability to move organizations into the digital race, it is also shifting DBAs’ roles and responsibilities. Cloud services – both from databases connected to the cloud, as well as databases run within clouds -- make the role of DBA more important than ever. Cloud services may help automate the management, installation, troubleshooting, performance, patching, backing up and security of data, but DBAs are needed to ensure that data environments continue to run efficiently and line up with business requirements.

A survey of members of the Independent Oracle Users Group, conducted by Unisphere research, a division of Information Today, documents the relentless growth of data – as well as its increasing importance to the business – demonstrates the increasing value of DBAs as they engage new avenues of the business. A majority, 62%, report their company’s data volume has grown more than 10% annually, and 74% state their companies’ requirements for secure, well-governed data environments that meet compliance mandates is growing as well. Many organizations are turning to data to help make better business decisions, engage with customers, and increase speed to market. 

Cloud frees up valuable DBA time and resources to provide this value to the business. Cloud-born services can help DBAs in a number of ways, handling much of the lower-level or infrastructure maintenance concerns, including the provisioning of disk space, increasing high availability, providing failover, integrating data, and enhancing security. An additional IOUG-Unisphere survey finds growing interest in Database as a Service (DBaaS) as a viable approach to serving enterprises’ needs for greater agility and faster time to market with cloud computing. DBaaS is taking off, with adoption expected to triple between 2016 and 2018. There will be a significant amount of enterprise data shifting to the cloud over that same time period as well, as enterprises rethink data management in the cloud.

Seventy-three percent of managers and professionals expect to be using DBaaS within their enterprises by that time, versus 27% at the present time.