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We now have ever-expanding digital identities to live our daily lives and, whether it’s crossing international borders or more innocuously buying basic products and services, our digital footprint is growing. With the increasing requirement to have a digital identity to do just about anything, our data is constantly being shared online. That said, the demands on FinTech companies to keep personally identifiable information (PII) safe are more pressing than ever.

Join any conversation about cybersecurity in Australia and the Essential Eight Maturity Model may well be mentioned.

As the well-known saying goes, by failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. This might not be true of everything in life, but it certainly is true of job interviews. Whether you’re preparing for a product design interview at Redgate, or elsewhere, here are some key considerations to help ensure that you get your preparations right.

An email recently came to our team (the Redgate Advocates) asking us what we thought the key challenges for data professionals might be in 2022. Kathi Kellenberger, Steve Jones and I each answered independently. We all bring different experiences and thoughts to the table, yet we all came up with three common themes. Here is what we all feel is likely to be of the most importance this year.

With all the hustle and bustle of hospitals, hard-working staff, and extensive cutting-edge equipment, we often forget about the invisible infrastructure that underpins our healthcare institutions. They all rely on the backbone of databases, and quick access to the data housed within them, to ensure systems at the front-end run seamlessly.

Perhaps because so few of us have been able to travel recently, or perhaps because wanderlust is just good fun, we’ve been wondering as to where the best place to live is as a DBA. And not just where pays the most, or where the opportunities are, but where would truly be the best place to live day-to-day. Some of the findings might surprise you! If you live in any of the places mentioned, we’d love to hear about your experience of living there in a comment below.

Earlier this year, we surveyed over 5,700 global IT professionals and asked them what the most pressing challenges they faced in Database DevOps and Monitoring are. We also asked specific questions to gauge what trends we could spot in the industry and compared the responses to the last 3-5 years of data we have.

Building on the success of SQL Clone in delivering copies of SQL Server databases at speed, we’re bringing cloning to Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL. As we launch an early access program, we would like to invite you to gain first access to our newest database cloning technology and input into our roadmap. Adding support for other RDBMS is a big deal as we look to extend our market-leading Database DevOps solutions to more teams, but that’s not the only major feature.

A key finding from Redgate’s recent State of Database Monitoring Survey of over 2,500 IT professionals was that 79% of respondents reported using either a third-party or in-house monitoring tool. It’s notable because it’s an increase of 10 percentage points from the same survey last year – and the satisfaction rate with third-party monitoring tools also saw an increase of 18 percentage points to 86%.