The Aerospike Consulting Services suite provides hands-on guidance to build scalable architectures for Aerospike. Delivered by experts with a deep understanding of the Aerospike Database and Aerospike Connect, Consulting Services takes a prescriptive approach to ensure a successful Aerospike deployment. The suite has a flexible and scalable model to address the specific needs of all enterprise deployments.
Services for New Customers
Enterprise Deployment Package
Complete, end-to-end deployment services including capacity planning, data modeling, security and data privacy configuration, network design, disaster recovery planning, alerting and monitoring integrations and performance tuning
A quality architecture manages the constraints presented by the business and technology teams while allowing you to maximize your opportunities with your customers. Successfully navigating these tradeoffs requires finding the right balance between risk, performance, and cost. Aerospike’s experience in co-creating architectures for our customers makes us the right partner to augment your architecture team and help you build the foundation for subsequent decisions and designs.
Aerospike consultants will engage with your team to review architectural and operational plans. The architecture review will ensure that your designs and models will support the needs of your business. The operations work seeks to align your operations philosophy with your current tools and capabilities.
- Cloud/Hardware eval and certification
- Define deployment topology
- Security & data privacy review
- Diagram data flows
- Data modelling
- System & network design review
- Catalog operational risks
- Define metrics and thresholds
- Integrate with automation and monitoring toolchain
- Develop operational runbooks
- Security checklist
- Implement scaling strategy
- Define and validate disaster recovery scenarios
- Verify infrastructure performance
- Design development environments
Data Migration Services
Legacy database assessment, data mapping, migration tool assessment, test and production migration and data quality testing
Legacy systems include proprietary and sometimes complex data-types to store your data. Migrating your legacy data into Aerospike requires a comprehensive data strategy to ensure the right data is identified and securely loaded into Aerospike.
Aerospike consultants will engage with your team to complete the following:
- Legacy database review
- Data mapping
- Migration tool selection
- Test migration
- Production migration
- Data quality testing
Developer Enablement
Design pattern assistance, client library best practices, development environment set up and functional testing
Development standards are critical to accelerating product development while minimizing technical debt. These standards are commonly derived from the overall context provided by the Architecture and Infrastructure teams. We will work with you to translate your architectural vision and establish Aerospike development standards for your organization.
Aerospike consultants will engage with development teams and integrate into your existing development cycle framework and cadence to support the following activities:
- Define design patterns
- Client library best practices
- Develop client policy
- Development environment setup
- Functional testing
Services for Existing Customers
Architecture Planning
Planning for scaling environments including deployment topology, capacity, security, data modeling, and network design
A quality architecture manages the constraints presented by the business and technology teams while allowing you to maximize your opportunities with your customers. Successfully navigating these tradeoffs require careful planning to eliminate as many variables as possible. Aerospike’s experience in co-creating hundreds of architectures for our customers makes us the right partner to augment your architecture team and help you build the foundation for subsequent decisions and designs.
Aerospike consultants will engage with your team to review current and future state architecture, analyze the business requirements and constraints, and provide written analysis with our recommendations. The topics will include
- Cloud/Hardware eval and certification
- Define deployment topology
- Security & data privacy review
- Diagram data flows
- Data modelling
- System & network design review
Operations Planning
Planning for scaling operations including risk assessment, metrics and thresholds, automation and monitoring, operational runbooks, disaster recovery scenarios and infrastructure performance
Mission critical systems demand highly proficient operational capabilities and well-defined procedures. Systematizing risk and finding the right balance between risk, performance, and cost are critical to success. Leverage Aerospike’s experience supporting hundreds of high performance, large scale clusters in production to bootstrap your operations teams.
Aerospike consultants will collaboratively engage with your operations or DevOps team to ensure you are successful configuring, deploying, and managing your Aerospike cluster. Activities include:
- Catalog operational risks
- Define metrics and thresholds
- Integrate with automation and monitoring toolchain
- Develop operational runbooks
- Security checklist
- Implement scaling strategy
- Define and validate disaster recovery scenarios
- Verify infrastructure performance
- Design development environments
Production Assessment
Health Check services to certify deployment meets business and operational goals
Careful planning and executing can ensure a successful production go-live. However, assumptions can be incorrect, requirements can evolve, and team members can change. The Aerospike Production Assessment Service is designed to smoothly transition knowledge to operational teams, validate production metrics and usage against pre-production designs and expectations. This will ensure your Aerospike cluster remains stable and hassle-free post production and for years to come.
Aerospike consultants will engage with appropriate teams leading up to your production launch and at regular checkpoints after. Activities include:
- Post launch Health Check
- 6 month Health Check
- Production hand-off & knowledge transfer
Upgrade Management
Hands-on guidance for version upgrades including architecture and data model review, upgrade plan and configuration review, cut over-monitoring and post-production assessment
New releases of Aerospike contain many improvements and optimizations that can improve performance and reduce operating complexity. Some upgrades and deployment environments require thoughtful planning and managed execution to ensure your system meets it’s high-availability and high-performance service level agreements.
Services for All Customers
Technical Account Manager
Dedicated technical resource to assist with planning, development, deployment, operations and support escalation
The TAM is a named technical resource with expert credentials in Aerospike. They engage your teams to help align the technical architecture to the needs of the business.
- Direct access to an Aerospike expert who is also at the forefront of all the Aerospike capabilities.
- Proactive planning and technical reviews. The TAM will liaise with key stakeholders and project teams.
- Single technical point of contact and conduit to the wider technical authorities within Aerospike.
- Works alongside the Aerospike Support team to provide business and technical context to support issues.
- Takes an advisory role over the duration of your project and is there to work with the development team or partners.
- Provide checkpoint reports on the health and performance of your Aerospike deployment.
Managed Cloud Services
Turn-Key management of Aerospike clusters in a public cloud with defined SLAs for uptime, performance and scale
Aerospike Managed Cloud Services makes it easy for enterprises of all sizes to plan, deploy, and manage cloud-based implementations of the Aerospike database. Delivered by experts with a deep understanding of the Aerospike database, these services are designed to reduce the time and staff resources associated with deploying and managing a cloud-based Aerospike implementation. With these services, customers need only license their Aerospike database and leave the rest to our team of experts.