Blue Gecko has been serving the small and medium-sized IT shops since we opened our doors in 2001.  More and more smaller businesses are making investments in Oracle, and not all of them can afford to hire top-notch DBAs.  Similarly, MySQL has come out of the garage and into the mainstream.  Organizations are learning that they have a lot of data in that "little" MySQL database all of a sudden, and that a database needs to be managed by a DBA.

Whether hiring Oracle or MySQL DBA resources for the first time or augmenting an existing DBA staff, here are some of the reasons organizations hire Blue Gecko.

Blue Gecko Remote DBA Services are Cost-Effective

Using Blue Gecko to manage and monitor your Oracle or MySQL database is a strategic way to save money.  Your organization should hire and retain people who understand your data and applications because applications and data are specific to your business.  Blue Gecko will make sure your Oracle and MySQL databases are monitored, tuned, backed up and patched as they should be.  Let Blue Gecko augment your existing DBA staff or bring a DBA presence to your organization so your employees can focus on what is important.

Blue Gecko Remote DBA Services are 7x24x365

No off-shore call centers and no voicemail boxes.  Our 100% on-shore Oracle and MySQL DBA staff are available by phone, web, and email all day every day.  Every call to our NOC will receive a human response, and your issues and questions will be addressed immediately.

Blue Gecko Remote DBA Services Provide More Experience

Hiring an Oracle or MySQL DBA is a difficult proposition.  The trouble is, good DBAs simply are not looking for work.  Even when you find a good DBA, their skill set will be limited to their own experiences.  At Blue Gecko , we face the same challenges in hiring Oracle and MySQL DBAs you do.  The difference is, when you hire Blue Gecko, you hire all of our DBAs and the breadth and depth of our entire Oracle and MySQL team.

Blue Gecko Remote DBA Services are Innovative

After searching for a monitoring solution that would scale to 100s of databases while providing a cost-effective platform for monitoring our Client's Oracle and MySQL databases, we came up somewhat empty.  Most commercial database monitoring solutions come at a high cost and come up short in critical areas.  Open-source monitoring tools seem to only cover the base minimum for Oracle and MySQL.  

In response, Blue Gecko has developed our own set of custom monitoring tools for Oracle and MySQL.  We rely on Nagios for monitor check and alert scheduling, and our own code for watching every nook and cranny of your databases.  Not just another threshhold-based ratio and space checker, Blue Gecko's Oracle and MySQL monitoring go way beyond the basics to alert our 7x24 NOC at the first sign of trouble.  Best of all, we can tailor every monitor to your environment.  Shouldn't your DBA team have control over how your databases are monitored?

Blue Gecko Remote DBA Services have Flexible Support Plans 

Whether you have one database or dozens, Blue Gecko's flexible pricing model is the simplest and most fair you will find.  You will neither be charged by the database, nor will you pay for a bunch of time that you will never use.  Blue Gecko offers several base support levels that cover a wide range of budgets, each of which can be tailored and augmented with custom monitoring and responses from our 7x24 NOC.