Nowadays, how to improve data security management and ensure continuous business operation is not only the center of business processing in the fields of finance, telecommunications, public service, but also a necessary part of the database construction process of small and medium-sized enterprises.

A continuous and secure database management solution can ensure the normal operation of small and medium-sized businesses, and prevent data loss and system interruption.

Establishing a continuous database management system is very important for the safety of data in small and medium-sized enterprises.

In developed countries, many small and medium enterprises attach great importance to the use of professional database solutions to build a continuous data management system.

Because information data security and business continuity management are complex systems engineering. It involves complex factors such as design and construction of infrastructure, daily operation and maintenance management, data backup and system switching, as well as organization and drills of business continuous plans. A continuous database management professional plan can ensure data security to reduce operational costs for future business.

Importance of continuous database management

In the interview, the reporter learned that many small and medium-sized enterprises have made basic data management backup preparations in the data center -- establishing a data service backup system.

Due to the lack of a comprehensive database management solution, many enterprises are able to recover the data before the disaster or recover the data after two or three days of disaster.

For example, due to power failure and other failures, the database server down machine caused the database file to be damaged. Small and medium-sized enterprises did not have quick response measures, and quickly resumed data operation, resulting in continuous security of business is difficult to guarantee.

Nowadays, more and more small and medium-sized enterprises gradually realize that in such a fierce competition environment, only doing a good job of data backup management system is not very successful for protecting the business operation and data management of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Once SMEs encounter unexpected accidents, if they still want to keep the business going on and on, it is far from enough to make use of backup schemes.

Most of the companies we visit do not want to be busy, nervous and slowly recovering the whole business system after a few days of disaster. However, no matter what kind of disaster environment they encounter, business can continue and go on forever.

Objectively speaking, the demand for a continuous database security management scheme has penetrated into every SME user.

Construction of continuous safety management

In the past, the security, availability and uninterrupted nature of the system have long been familiar. These concepts have clearly defined the modern data management to some extent.

It should be said that continuous data management, from a new height, has mastery the concept of various systems security and covers management and business process design.

In fact, in real life, many SMEs are forced to cut down on the cost of data security under the pressure of funds. But what is the most important thing when capital is compared with those who can not do anything, lose customers, damage corporate reputation, miss a great business opportunity, and lower the share price?

In fact, the loss of system downtime to enterprises will continue to rise, because the business of enterprises depends more and more on IT systems, software and data.

For example, if the ERP system of a manufacturing enterprise fails, the whole business will stop.

In e-commerce environment, there will be more and more factors causing downtime, including some work that must be done, such as reconfiguration of servers, installation of new software versions, etc.

The normal operating ratio of 99% means 3.5 days of downtime per year, while 99.99% of normal operation means a 8 hour downtime per year.

Nowadays, many enterprises pursue the system 100% operation, which means that the plan of the enterprise can not be changed, and even the normal system maintenance can not be carried out. These two points are very critical for any customer centered enterprise. These two tasks must be completed in the running of the system.

Continuous data management

A continuous data management solution requires the database to operate at full load 24 hours a day without regular maintenance.

With the lack of IT technicians, the burden of database managers is very heavy due to the complexity and quantity of data.

In addition, enterprises are also faced with the challenge of managing information from a large number of data sources. They have to learn to use multiple software vendors' products, and develop new applications to effectively utilize existing business information.

Experts suggest that small and medium-sized enterprises can use IBM to manage DB2 software autonomously, simplify data management, enhance easy management characteristics and cross enterprise access to information, and speed up the company's investment return.

After all, the continuous data management solutions should meet users' changing requirements in terms of enhancing system functions, improving data management and data security in order to satisfy users' efficient performance to the system. With the change of business, they have the ability to expand, make the database management personnel (DBA) easier to manage, make more convenient development to application developers, and make the system have good usability, interoperability, security and integration capabilities. Only in this way can enterprises cope with the changing market competition environment and ensure the sustained and stable development of the business.