Severalnines - IT Press Tour #65 Dec 2025

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1. 1 A practical vision for self-implementation of DBaaS
2. 2 2 me 20+ years in database & open source IBM, Swedbank, Ericsson, MySQL, Pentaho CEO of Severalnines company Founded 2011 DBaaS & Database automation 200+ enterprise customers
3. 3 1. Drivers of the Current Cloud Market 2. Challenge & Evolution of DBaaS 3. Introducing Sovereign DBaaS 4. Severalnines Sovereign DBaaS 5. Discussion
4. 4 The shot NOT heard ‘round the world 2011 2021 2025
5. 5 Cliff, meet EU CSPs. EU CSPs, meet free-fall Source: Synergy Research Group
6. 6 Champagne taste on a beer budget 2025 planned infra spend: AWS $100B GCP $85B Azure $80B . . . . . . . . . OVH $361M Source: Gartner, ING Source: Gartner, ING 2024 DCs across lifecycle stage:
7. 7 7 Challenge & evolution of DBaaS
8. 8 8 Sovereign DBaaS Key Features What our customers are asking The Modern Enterprise DBaaS Challenge • Single pane of glass for 100s of instances ◦ On-prem + public clouds ◦ Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis,... • Cross platform provisioning & management • Service concepts and nomenclature • Replicate data between environments • Existing deployments
9. 9 DBaaS in three acts Act 1 Act 2 Act 3 Hyperscalers DB Vendors The Future
10. 10 10 Act 1 - Hyperscalers set the groundwork for DBaaS Act 1 • Cloud vendor lock-in • No multi-cloud/hybrid CSP-specific nomenclature tooling • Costly at scale • Deployment speed Faster Time to Market • Convenience • CAP / OPEX at small scale Advantages Disadvantages Act 1
11. 11 Multiple databases* on one cloud * no MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Neo4j, CockroachDB… Act 1
12. 12 Act 2 - DB Vendors follow suit Act 1 • Reduced cloud vendor lock-in • OSS license stability Source-available DBs available as-a-service • Multi-cloud At least the main hyperscalers Advantages • Database vendor lock-in • Mono-environment Region limitations; Realization that certain workloads should be on-prem (e.g. regulations, policies, fit, etc.) • Costly at scale • Infrastructure / database control Disadvantages Act 2
13. 13 One database on any* cloud * any cloud means AWS, Azure, GCP Act 2
14. 14 Act 3 - Intelligent platforms allow orgs to roll their own OSS DBaaS Act 3 • All Act I and II advantages E.g. deployment speed, OSS access, etc. • Environment freedom Run on-prem, in public cloud, or hybrid setup Can run cloud equivalent loads at ½ the cost* • Infrastructure / database control Database automation w/out ceding control • License freedom and stability OSS Licenses allow for self-implementation Advantages
15. 15 Organizations embrace multi-cloud N=753 Source: Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud Report
16. 16 Polyglot DB environment 1 2 3 DBaaS & Enterprise IT reality Public Clouds On-Prem
17. 17 17 Introducing Sovereign DBaaS Sovereign DBaaS gives you the ultimate portability of choosing where to deploy your own data with no lock-in and with full control over your costs, security, and configuration. Achieve the promise of open-source databases through a vendor-neutral distribution.
18. 18 Deployment & Scaling Monitoring & alerting Backup management Automatic Recovery & Repair Security & Compliance Upgrades & Patching Configuration Management Performance Management Automated Perf. Advisors Operational Reporting Full Lifecycle Automation Focus on Day 2 Ops
19. 19 19 Database ops your way Use the open source databases you want: Deploy when, where and how you want: Private Public Hybrid Infra selection/ database ownership z Smaller scale CSPs z z z z z z z
20. 20 Backup Integrate DevOps tools Secure Observe Report Deploy Failover Manage 12 Operations, 1 Platform ClusterControl gives you the full experience of a DBaaS in any environment. Perform hybrid ops Scale Upgrade
21. 21 21 Governance & Privacy • Regulatory compliance • Data residency • Audit Sovereign DBaaS Key Features Ownership & Location • Private cloud IaaS • Multi-cloud • On-premises • Data plane • Control plane Cost Management • Open-source • Cost management • Cost predictability • Distributed workloads Security • Data at rest • Data in motion • Encryption keys (BYOK) • Security frameworks User Experience • Developer • Operations • DevOps • Automation Manageability • Upgrades and patching • Backup management • Monitoring and alerting • HA and DR • Configuration management
22. 22 Open Source Digital Transformation at ABSA (formerly Barclays Africa Group Ltd.) Learn more about this story: https://severalnines.com/case-studies/absa-case-study/ Environment Hybrid Infrastructure Technologies 3500 Database Technologies Number of Servers
24. 24 24 Our customers say: “Severalnines enabled us to build automation around our database platform for self-service provisioning while being able to consistently determine deployment patterns without DBA involvement.” 200 customers and counting