ScaleArc Releases 'The State of Application Uptime in Database Environments' Survey Results

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ScaleArc today released the results of its survey – 'The State of Application Uptime in Database Environments'. The survey solicited more than 200 enterprises of varying size, across a wide range of vertical markets, to learn more about the impact that an organization's underlying database infrastructure has on application availability. Specifically, respondents were asked about their database infrastructure and its effect on both planned and unplanned downtime. The survey reveals key insights into the IT decision-making process, including the risks organizations are willing to take when choosing between application availability and security. The results of the survey will be discussed in a webinar on March 25, 2015 at 11 AM PT featuring ScaleArc's founder and CTO, Varun Singh, in addition to Alex Gorbachev, CTO at database consultancy Pythian, and Tim Coats, architect on the Innovation Team at IT advisor Trace3. Register for the webinar and download the survey here.

Commenting on the survey, Matt Aslett, research director at 451 Research said,  "As enterprises struggle to improve application availability, understanding how the database affects application uptime is critical. The survey results indicate that enterprises cannot afford to maintain the status quo when it comes to database availability. Having your most critical applications be offline for 20 minutes to three hours, more than once a month, should not be acceptable to any enterprise today."

Key insights from the survey include:

Database failover takes down the applications: For the majority of organizations, users see application errors for the duration of an unplanned outage. Failover is manual in most cases, and applications have to be restarted 62% of the time.

Database outages are too frequent and too long: Too frequently, the database is the source of unplanned downtime. A surprising 65% of all enterprises surveyed experience between 20 minutes and 3 hours of downtime, on average, for their most critical applications.

Database maintenance crushes resources: More than 70% of respondents reported that they performed maintenance updates on a weekly or monthly basis. Those surveyed also indicated that key development resources are pulled in to assist with maintenance tasks 50% of the time.

Deferred "security patching" is rampant, placing enterprises at risk: More than 60% of respondents postponed critical security patches because of concerns over application downtime.

For the full survey report, please go here

About ScaleArc
ScaleArc is the leading provider of database load balancing software. The ScaleArc software inserts transparently between applications and databases, creating an agile data tier that provides continuous availability and increased performance for all apps. With ScaleArc, enterprises also gain instant database scalability and a new level of real-time visibility for their application environments, both on premise and in the cloud. Learn more about ScaleArc, our customers, and our partners at www.ScaleArc.com.

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