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MSSQL

MSSQL Hosting provides managed MSSQL resources from within UFIT's enterprise infrastructure. This service allows your IT staff to focus on database and application development and operations without the burden of maintaining servers, operating system software or RDBMS software. Your database will live in UFIT's highly-available and disaster hardened MS-SQL environment which is designed with redundancy on multiple infrastructure layers to provide continuity of operation.

UFIT Provides

UFIT will function in the roles of System Administrator, System DBA, and Backup Administrators. As such UFIT is responsible for making sure the MS-SQL service is available to your Application DBAs and Application Developers and Administrators.

Customer Provides

As the customer it is your responsibility to provide IT staff to fulfill the roles of Application DBA and any Application Developer and/or Administrator needed to utilize the MS-SQL service. Also, any end-user support must be provided by staff in the customer organization. All data, including database schema design and implementation, will belong to and remain the responsibility of the customer.

MS-SQL Service Menu

All MS-SQL database hosting includes:

  • Built on highly available infrastructure hardware
  • MS SQL Enterprise running on Windows Server
  • 20G disk storage
  • 512 MB RAM for running DB instances
  • Nightly backups to protect against data loss in the case of catastrophic infrastructure failure