What we do is simple:  We provide database administration support services for Oracle, Oracle Apps, and MySQL.  We can provide those services remotely (at your data center, on your equipment) or we can host a complete database infrastructure in our own facility.

Our Clients have many different reasons for partnering with Blue Gecko.  Many of our Client’s don’t have a full time or true DBA on staff.  Others partner with Blue Gecko to augment their existing staff.  Still others work with our team to provide greater breadth of DBA experience.  Below are some of the reasons our Clients have partnered with Blue Gecko since 2001.

Cost.  Many organizations do not need a full time DBA and do not want to pay a high salary for a qualified, professional DBA resource.  Blue Gecko provides Oracle and MySQL DBA support around the clock at a fraction of the cost of full time or consulting resources.

Experience.  If your developer is also acting as your DBA, or even if you only have one DBA, sometimes situations will come up where the experience of a full-time operational DBA would be helpful.  Blue Gecko brings the full breadth of experience of our entire team to all of our Clients every day, freeing in-house resources to focus on what is important to their business.

Time.  Can your DBA take a vacation?  Can they sleep?  Blue Gecko focuses on 7x24 DBA support so your team can focus on what is important to your business.  We have DBAs available around the clock, and focus on providing proactive, monitored support for all of your databases.

Monitoring.  Blue Gecko has spent a great deal of time developing our own proactive monitoring solution.  Most databases failures can be prevented with proactive monitoring, and we constantly strive to automate and improve the availability of our Client’s systems.

Blue Gecko has an advantage over generic hosting organizations:  We focus our energies and resources on hosting Oracle and MySQL.  While many hosting companies provide a generic platform that works well enough for most applications, Blue Gecko focuses on providing the best platform available for Oracle and MySQL.

We host Oracle and MySQL databases on RedHat Enterprise Linux.  All of our OS builds come with pre-requisite patches and configuration options already set for Oracle and MySQL.  We also maintain patch repositories for common OS patches on site.

Blue Gecko offers both shared and dedicated storage options that have been carefully selected with Oracle and MySQL in mind.

Blue Gecko supports and provides hosted Oracle Apps installations and infrastructure.  Managing Oracle Apps is not the same as managing stand-alone Oracle databases, and we can take advantage of advanced DMZ and shared file system configurations to get the most out of your Apps purchase.