Data Estate Advisory Services
Take control of your data’s security, compliance, and integrity.
I/T professionals need access to peers and meaningful insights about the entire data estate to properly protect, optimize, and unlock data’s full potential. Because relational database management systems, like Microsoft SQL Server, are incredibly complex and sophisticated, no one person or small team can know everything about them.
UpSearch is where I/T leaders, engineers, and administrators turn to engage with peers, keep up with best practices, and get the ongoing insights they need to optimize data estates for high availability, security, scale, and long-term cost management.
Flat-Rate SQL Server Data Estate Advisory Services
UpSearch pioneered a people-centric productivity solution for SQL Server that allows individuals and leadership teams to get visibility into an entire data estate, up to speed and add value faster, and in front of security threats and root causes quicker when something does go wrong. 100% U.S. based.
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Flat Rate Advisory Service Plans | Partner | Preferred | Premier |
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Emergency Support
Critical issues response time: Business hours (M-F 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM) and non-business hours. | 1 hr | 4 hr | 1 hr | 2 hr | 1 hr | 1 hr |
Joint Team Meetings
We bring technical teams together for tactical discussions about the operations of your cloud and data platforms, share knowledge, experience, mutually set goals, and work through outstanding issues – together. Agendas and meeting minutes included. | Monthly | Bi-weekly | Weekly |
Business Reviews
We bring executive teams together for annual strategic discussions about the continuity and evolution of your organization and align on ways to drive more value. | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Data Estate Assessments | |||
A top-down approach to protect your data estate and keep costs under control.
We audit your entire enterprise to discover all installed versions of SQL Server and provide insights with actionable recommendations. Visibility into your entire data estate is essential for: | Annually | Quarterly | Monthly |
Security Guidance | |||
Get in front of known vulnerabilities and continually harden your security posture.
Your network and system teams appropriately take an outside-in approach to security. We complement with an inside SQL out approach, discover detailed information about your deployments, and help plan security updates to minimize risks. | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Data Estate Management | |||
Health Checks
A deep evaluation of a single SQL Server instance, from the hardware to the OS, to the databases themselves. During the first 90 days, we will evaluate each monitored production instance and present a report with actionable recommendations. | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
SQL Server Status Reports
Each morning UpSearch sends your team a comprehensive report of SQL Server checks, including Stopped Services, Service Events, Disk Warnings, Failed Jobs, Missing Backups, Integrity Checks, High VFLs, Instance Changes, Database Changes, Login Changes, and Error Logs. | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Database Performance Monitoring
24 hours a day. 7 days a week. Every day of the year. UpSearch has the capabilities to monitor all SQL Server instances in your entire organization, enabling your team to focus on higher priorities. You receive real-time notification of service interruption or job failure. | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Monthly Baseline Analysis
We baseline how your databases behave month-over-month, provide expert analysis, and respond to changes before they become problems. | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Database Integrity and Recovery Tests | |||
Test objectives are to validate the integrity of backup files and audit recovery times.
UpSearch periodically retrieves your backup files, restores them on a separate system, tests for corruption, measures the Full, Diff, and Log operation recovery, and compares against your stated recovery time objective (RTO). | Annually | Semi-annually | Quarterly |
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