SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer Research Charts

Benefits of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

Using DPA helps organizations solve performance issues

Saving money on hardware investments as a result of performance optimization	18%
Increased database performance and end user experience	76%
Better visibility into our environment and improved collaboration (less finger pointing for troubleshooting)	70%
Faster problem resolution and more proactive management of databases	78%
More time to focus on more important or strategic parts of my job	38%
Able to find problems that were hard or impossible to find before	56%
Other	2%

Primary challenges in optimizing database performance:

Improve end-user response time (application performance)	71%
Improve database performance	85%
Improve visibility into the database and the systems that support it	65%
Accelerate root-cause identification for performance problems	79%
Improve collaboration between DBAs, developers, operations and other IT teams	35%
Monitor overall health of our databases and be alerted when issues arise	66%
Help me or other database professionals spend less time looking for problems inside the database	62%
Other	2%

Which platforms does your organization use broadly in your IT environment?

What are the primary challenges in moving databases to the cloud?

Not enough time to experiment, test and migrate	27%
Lack of expertise. Need more time to understand how the cloud works and how to solve for our needs	20%
Security concerns, including storing mission critical data outside our own datacenters	74%
Unknown or hard to quantify TCO or ROI	24%
Unsure about performance of databases in the cloud and the consistency of performance	41%
Stability and consistency. Ability of cloud vendors to meet our SLAs	27%
Other	12%

Where is your company in terms of moving databases to the cloud?

We have no plans to use a public cloud at this time	72%
We are exploring moving to the cloud and have a pilot	12%
We have moved a number of databases primarily to the cloud, mainly to our own database instances on cloud servers	5%
We have moved a number of databases primarily to the cloud, mainly to database as a service DBaaS (Amazon RDS, Azure SQL DB or Rackspace Cloud Databases)	3%
We have a significant portion of our databases to the cloud	1%
We plan to move as much to the cloud as possible	2%
Other	5%

What are your main challenges in moving databases to the cloud?

Not enough time to experiment, test and migrate	28%
Lack of expertise. Need more time to understand how the cloud works and how to solve for our needs	23%
Security concerns, including storing mission critical data outside our own datacenters	74%
Unknown or hard to quantify TCO or ROI	22%
Unsure about performance of databases in the cloud and the consistency of performance	40%
Stability and consistency. Ability of cloud vendors to meet our SLAs	28%
Other	15%