Philadelphia, Sept. 19, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Database availability is critical to the well-being of a business, and it is becoming increasingly more difficult and resource-intensive to keep database environments across multiple platforms constantly up and running.
Aspect Consulting has recently introduced a new monitoring solution: Prodative® WatchDog Enterprise Monitoring Service (EMS) to augment the remote database administration services they have been providing for customers for over 15 years.
"Our DBAs were continually looking for a simple, cost-effective way to streamline our monitoring efforts. We found many database monitoring tools difficult to configure and expensive to maintain. We needed a simple solution that provided the right information across platforms, that was also simple to configure and use," says John Abrams, President and Founder of Aspect Consulting. "We built this tool to use in-house, using our expertise to choose monitoring with the most impact. It proved so efficient, that we are now offering and implementing this as a service for our clients."
WatchDog EMS is a platform-independent database monitoring solution that gives users a complete picture of database availability, performance, and capacity across their entire enterprise. As a robust component of Aspect's Remote Database Administration Services, WatchDog EMS further optimizes the database environment to achieve efficiency, minimize security risks, and accommodate future growth; a wise investment in the success and well-being of every business.
WatchDog EMS can monitor any database in an environment. Information is captured from SQL and Oracle databases in real-time, and is accessible via a single web-based portal. It is powered by a base set of comprehensive monitoring jobs that capture availability, backup, disk space and file system usage data, and identify problematic indexing and queries, in order to prevent downtime and improve availability and performance. Alerts, displayed via portal and sent via email notification, warn of any critical issues. WatchDog EMS also captures key trending information for analysis and reporting, so that issues can be detected and addressed before users are impacted.
Aspect Consulting of King of Prussia, PA offers a full range of data management consulting services, such as remote database administration and data warehouse development, as well as custom application development and IT staff augmentation. Aspect specializes in complete remotely managed database administration services for customers running Oracle® or Microsoft® SQL Server™. Database administration services include remote monitoring, backup and recovery, database migration/upgrades, character set integrity checks, documentation of configuration, installation and configuration, performance tuning, and security best practices.