Microsoft SQL Server as a managed service. We handle patching, backups, replication, and monitoring; you handle queries. Per-month licensing so you pay as you go instead of upfront.
SQL Server itself is fine. The licensing, the patching, and the backup story are where most teams quietly fall behind, usually right up until the day a restore is needed and nobody has tested one. We take ownership of all three so the database stays current, recoverable, and correctly licensed without anyone on your side having to become a DBA.
SQL Server cumulative-update rollups applied on a schedule, tested against a clone of your database first so a patch never meets production blind. Maintenance windows are agreed in advance, not sprung on your team in the middle of a workday.
Full, differential, and transaction-log backups to off-host storage on a schedule matched to your recovery targets. A quarterly restore drill proves they actually work, with the result written down. A backup nobody has restored is only a hope.
Always On availability groups where the workload earns them, and read replicas to keep heavy reporting queries off the transactional database. High availability is configured to your tolerance for downtime, not sold by default to everyone.
No capital purchase for SQL Server Standard or Enterprise. Licensing is billed per core per month and scaled to what you actually run, so you stop paying for headroom you bought once and never grew into.
Every database is watched for blocking, slow queries, disk pressure, and failed jobs, with alerts that reach an engineer before users feel the slowdown. We flag the index or query that's quietly costing you, not just the outage that already happened.
Encryption at rest and in transit, access controls, and audit logging configured to your framework, on dedicated or virtualized infrastructure as the data demands. The database tier becomes evidence you can show, not a gap an auditor finds.
Buying SQL Server outright is a six-figure decision for most organizations, and the licensing math has a way of being wrong by the time anyone audits it. Editions get mixed up, cores get added without licenses following, and a vendor true-up arrives with a number nobody budgeted for. Per-month licensing through us moves all of that to a clean per-core cost that scales up and down with the workload, so you pay for the database you're running this quarter, not the one you guessed at three years ago.
The licensing is only the part that shows up on the invoice, though. The harder, quieter work is keeping the database patched without breaking the application, proving the backups restore, and catching the slow query before it becomes a support ticket. We host SQL on dedicated or virtualized infrastructure depending on the workload, run the full patching cycle against a clone first, monitor every database, and put the backup-verification results on a calendar your CFO can actually see. It sits on the same operations discipline as server management, so the database isn't a special snowflake nobody else can touch.
Moving a production database is the kind of thing teams put off for years. Done in a sequence with a tested rollback, it's an ordinary maintenance window, not a leap of faith.
We review the database size, edition, workload pattern, recovery targets, and compliance needs, then right-size the hosting and the licensing. You see the plan and the per-core cost before committing.
We provision the SQL environment, harden it, configure backups and any high availability, and restore a copy of your data so the application can be tested end to end against the new host.
With backups current and a rollback ready, we migrate during an agreed window, repoint the application, and validate. If anything looks wrong, we step back to the original; nothing is one-way.
From there: scheduled patching, monitored performance, verified restores on a calendar, and tuning recommendations as the workload changes. The database tier stops being the thing nobody owns.
Hosted SQL Server fits businesses that depend on a SQL Server database but don't have, or don't want to keep paying for, a dedicated DBA to babysit it. That's the company whose line-of-business or ERP application sits on SQL and has quietly fallen behind on patching. It's the organization staring down a large up-front SQL Server license purchase that would rather convert it to a predictable monthly cost. It's the team that knows their backups exist but has never actually restored one, and would sleep better if someone proved they work on a schedule. And it's any regulated practice that needs the database tier encrypted, logged, and defensible for an auditor. If your application vendor has ever said "that's a database problem, talk to your IT," this is who they meant. It pairs with secure backup for ransomware-resistant copies of the data and with virtual machines or dedicated hardware as the compute layer underneath, sized to how hard the database actually works.
No. Licensing is included in the per-core monthly rate, so there's no large up-front purchase for SQL Server Standard or Enterprise and nothing to true-up at audit time. You pay for the cores you actually run, and the number scales with the workload. For many clients, avoiding the capital purchase is the single biggest reason they move to a hosted database.
Full, differential, and transaction-log backups run on a schedule matched to your recovery targets and land on off-host storage. The part that matters most is verification: we run a quarterly restore drill and write down the result, so you know the backups actually work before you ever need them. We can also add ransomware-resistant copies through secure backup.
Yes. We assess the current database, build a matching hosted environment, restore a copy to test the application against, and migrate during an agreed window with a tested rollback in place. If anything looks wrong we step back to the original, so the move isn't one-way. Most migrations land inside a single planned maintenance window with no surprises for users.
It usually improves it. We size the compute to the actual workload, put heavy reporting on read replicas so they don't fight the transactional database, and monitor for slow queries and blocking continuously. For demanding databases we host on dedicated hardware with NVMe storage. You also get tuning recommendations, so performance gets attention before it becomes a complaint.
Yes. We configure encryption at rest and in transit, access controls, and audit logging to match your framework, and we can run the database on single-tenant dedicated hardware where the rules require it. The controls and evidence are set up alongside the build, so the database tier becomes something you can show an auditor rather than a gap they discover. See our compliance overview for the specifics.
Tell us the size of your database and the workload type (OLTP, reporting, mixed). We'll come back with a sizing recommendation and a per-month quote.
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