Administrator Changes Moving to Software as a Service
As an administrator of databases and software for your company, moving to Software as a Service will have a small impact on your skill set for development tools, processes, testing, and security.
Let’s consider Azure as the predominant host of Dot Net Software as a Service hosts. Microsoft provides within their development and management tool suites the capability to build, test and deploy software and databases easily over the internet.
From an administration perspective, it is very similar t managing databases and software on your own hardware in a remote location. The biggest difference is that you are working with essentially virtual machines, only the alias of which you know. The Azure system handles all the actual deployment issues like most Cloud software.
You won’t have the headache and overhead of maintaining updates and patches…that is all part of the Azure platform. Likewise, you won’t be worrying about building out and optimizing SAN storage, virtual machines, etc. You will simply submit to Azure the requirements for your operations, and Azure carves out what you need. So, as a systems administrator, Software as a Service, or Azure in specific, is a great way to go.
Some of you are already using Azure. Why not share your personal experience about what will you had to learn, and how it changed your skills, processes, or even your role? Drop me a note at btaylor@sswug.org. Let’s get the word out.
Cheers,
Ben
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