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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unlimited 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 facilitate collaborative discussions between our advisory team and your technical teams, centered on your cloud and data platform operations. We leverage the Data Estate Assessment, SQL Server Status Reports, and Database Integrity and Recovery Test to exchange insights, align on goals, and address issues. Our purpose is to cultivate institutional knowledge, internal-know how, and provide guidance. Agendas and minutes are provided. | 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 Assessment | |||
| We facilitate the enterprise-wide audit process to find, verify, and securely collect information about each Microsoft SQL Server instance and the underlying Windows Operating System. This includes VM-hosted cloud platform assets, if joined to a domain. With enterprise-wide clarity you can: Discover, trend, and analyze the cost drivers of SQL Server licenses. We offer the Data Estate Assessment as both a stand-alone service and as a foundation for the Data Estate Advisory Services. Every Advisory Services Client gets unlimited assessments. | ∞ | ∞ | ∞ |
| 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. Every Advisory Services Client gets unlimited Health Checks. | ∞ | ∞ | ∞ |
| 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. | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| 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 business-critical backup files, recovery process, and time how long it takes to restore a mission critical workload. 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). | Semi-annually | Quarterly | Quarterly |
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