OpenStack Mitaka Design Summit

Database-as-a-service (DBaaS), to some, appears to commoditize the knowledge of a longtime stalwart of the corporate IT department, the DBA. Viewed in the broader context of where enterprise IT is headed, DBAs will be the primary beneficiaries of DBaaS services based on Trove: more time spent data modelling and understanding business requirements, less time scripting backups and configuring replication topologies.

This talk will engage the audience to begin thinking about how cloud-enablement and database-as-a-service will alter not only the view of the enterprise DBA but also their value to the organization.