Database Hosting

Features

Agency Support

The Database Hosting team responds to your organization’s critical database needs by providing preventive care that combines proactive and reactive support. This support includes disaster recovery testing, database recovery and maintaining high-priority database-vendor support relationships. 

Following best practices and applying ITIL methodology, the team daily provides standard and advanced database administration support. This includes patching, ad-hoc tasks and tailoring support tasks to each database.

Security

Knowing that protecting data is mission critical, the Database Hosting team installs the necessary services to ensure proper protection. The team also regularly applies security patches and creates secure backups. 

• If your organization is running open-source, Database Hosting's robust, high-quality security measures prevent malicious access, especially to highly restricted data. 
• For Oracle environments, NCDIT provides enterprise application support for Oracle Recovery Manager.

The security offering includes software licensing management and compliance, database configuration, identification, access control and 24/7, real-time environment monitoring. Other features include:

• Encryption in transit (TNS network encryption) and at rest (storage encryption)
• Data masking and redaction
• Strong authentication enforcement
• NIST compliance regulation
• Database isolation in a secure zone
• Research and test security patch releases

Consultation & Monitoring Services

In addition to planning and deploying databases, the Database Hosting team performs monitoring and health checks.

• Monitoring based on business objectives helps databases continuously meet performance demands. 
• Periodic health checks keep databases running smoothly and prevent serious issues. Checks include tracing logs growth, index fragmentation, daily/weekly backups, connections, stability, security and performance. 

After evaluating the performance of your organization’s database computing environments, the team offers solutions and service-level agreements customized to your organization’s security needs, rules and budget. Other services include:

• Enterprise monitoring 
• Auditing and proactive administration
• Database architecture
• Database security assessment
• Cloud database migration and support

Benefits

• Existing Oracle and SQL licensed hardware reduces customer costs compared to investing in your own on-premises database infrastructure.
• Scale to support your application requirements.
• Rely on connectivity between applications and their databases.
• Remove downtime issues through high availability services.
• Focus on delivering the applications specific to your organization without the burden of maintaining the infrastructure. 
• Eliminate the complexity of database migrations to new cloud environments with Database Hosting’s consulting and support.
• Stabilize operations with proactive responses to enterprise monitoring threshold alerts and service interruptions 24/7.
• Customize service-level agreements to provide upgrades and patch schedules that support 99.9% availability of your database server.

Request Process

To request this service, or for more information, submit a ticket using the NCDIT Service Portal.

Authorization

• Service requests that incur a cost to the agency will typically require approval from the requesting agency’s CIO, financial officer or manager, depending upon your agency's requirements. 
• Any staff with access to the NCDIT Service Portal may engage the team for support or information.

Requirements & Customer Responsibility

Expected Delivery

Customers

Approved rates for this service are published in the NCDIT Rate Schedule.

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NCDIT supports several configurations, as summarized in the table below. Both physical and virtual hosted platforms are supported within the database vendor's limitations. Support for specific advanced features not listed may be negotiated on a case-by-case basis. All service requests are initiated and documented by the NCDIT Service Portal. All database system changes are governed by NCDIT's change control policy and procedures.

Oracle Database Products & Services

Microsoft Database Products & Services

Cloud & Other Open Source Databases

• Amazon Web Services databases
• Azure SQL
• MariaDB

Training & Help 

Not available

Other Related Links

None

Related NCDIT Services

• Enterprise Service Bus
• Middleware Hosting