Any organization once faces the question What do we need to do with our database infrastructure?. The reasons to ask this question may be different

• recent system crash
• performance issues
• databases have grown dramatically
• purchase of new application (CRM, ERP system, etc) that requires database administrator
• lack of finances to keep current DBA staff

Choosing right DBA for your organization must be thoroughly considered. There are multiple options to support your database farm:

Full-time employee database administrator

You can hire an experienced DBA or grow in-house your own from existing personnel. As advantage you can always ask him directly about the status of tasks or explain him face-to-face what you want to be done, he will eventually learn the application and become kind of analyst. But you will need to think about social package, salary taxes, working place. If you want to have 24x7 support for your database then one DBA may be not enough to accomplish it especially if she falls sick or goes to vacation. And the most considerable point is the price of such DBA. In US any experienced DBA will ask at least $40k per year and up to $120k anual wage depending on DBA's experience. While for instance our Small business plan costs only $500 per month ($6000 per year) and provides all the same benefits.

Database administration outsourcing company

There is always possibility of cooperating with an on-site it services outsourcing company. You will definitely save some money in comparison with hiring own DBA team. But the prices for on-site dba services outsourcing will be considerably higher in comparison with offshore outsourcing companies. This mainly relates to Western Europe and US.

Offshore dba outsourcing company

The obvious advantage in comparison with local on-site outsourcing it services company - price of the dba services. The best places to offshore database administration are Western Europe and Asia. We are located in Western Europe , Kiev, Ukrane and here the best professional DBA hourly rate is only ~$10 per hour which is the lowest in the world even comparing to India and China.

The next main points may be considered as advantage of our offshore remote dba services

• Price of the database administration service. As it was mentioned before our prices are lowest in the industry
• We are all certified professional experienced in DBMS and used to all database related issues that may occur on your db environment
• On call duty dba. There is always our on call duty dba expert who can answer to any your questions at any time. 
• Service Level Agreement with up to 24x7x365 service time with response time <1 minutes for the first level priority cases
• Non-Disclosure Agreement. All our dba employee sign up NDA so you can be sure about security of your data.
• We have expertise in all main database management systems Microsoft SQL Server (2000, 2005, 2008), Oracle (8i, 9g, 10g), Sybase, MySQL.