Postgres deployments are not difficult to put in place, but both existing and new users are wise to ask questions general Postgres questions, as well as questions specific to their implementation to ensure a successful deployment. This presentation will help you minimize deployment challenges to ensure that your Postgres plans meet and exceed their goals. This presentation covers the following topics: - Identify specific key challenges that can hinder your deployment - Overcome barriers to avoid poor results - Discover what success can look like for your organization - Find out how to get started with your deployment with EDB Target Audience: This presentation is intended for Business and Technical Management overseeing a Postgres deployment team. This presentation is equally suitable for organizations already using community PostgreSQL as well as EDB’s Postgres Plus product family.

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Minimizing Headaches with Your Postgres Deployment
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Matt Cicciari
Director, Product Marketing
Presenters
Debra Brucato
Director, Services Product Management

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Reduce Risk & Drive Success
Part 1: Making the Most of
Your Postgres Rollout
Helping you getting started with Postgres
Part 2: Minimizing Headaches
in Your Postgres Deployment
Leverage our experience to drive a successful
deployment
Informative two–part webinar series to help
support your Postgres initiatives.
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Reduce Risk & Drive SuccessEffort/Resources
LEARN VALIDATE & DEPLOY OPERATE
Time
PROJECT STAGES
Deployment
Services

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• Common challenges that hinder deployments
• Overcome the barriers
• Discover what success can look like
• Action Plan to get started
Agenda

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Challenges to Your Deployment
Smaller Projects Larger Projects
Getting Started
• Develop
knowledge
• Gain
experience
• Best Practices
• Validation
Expansion
• “This is not
your father’s
Oldsmobile…”
• Ensure proper
dissemination
of knowledge &
experience
• License
compliance
Growth
• Reference
Architecture
• Large scale
performance
considerations
• Managing
expectations
around
reliability

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How to Address Competence?
Where do
you
look?
What do
you
Know?
How do
you
learn?
Who can
you
trust?
How much time do YOU have?

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Managing Your Deployment
Minor Projects Mission-Critical Projects
Learn &
Deploy
• Deployment
Kick Start
• Certification
Learn &
Expand
• Group
Success
• Team Success
• Certification
Assess &
Optimize
• Architectural
Health Check
• Database
Performance
Improvement
• High
Availability(HA)
• Certification

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Deployment Kick Start
Straightforward combination of education and guidance
to make a small deployment project successful.
Learn & Deploy
What You Get
• Training: Access to On-Demand Courses (2 classes)
• Services: Remote professional consulting (2 days)

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Group Success
Focused on empowering a team of 2-4 DBAs and
developers with a bundle of product, education, and
expert guidance.
Learn & Expand – Part 1
What You Get
• Product: EDB Postgres Developer subscription (1 license)
• Training: Access to On-Demand Courses (4 classes)
• Services: Remote professional consulting (5 days)

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Team Success
Focused on empowering a mission-critical supporting
team of 4-6 DBAs and developers with a bundle of
product, education, and expert guidance.
Learn & Expand– Part 2
What You Get
• Product: EDB Postgres Developer subscription (1 license)
• Training: Access to On-Demand Courses (8 classes)
• Services:
− Remote professional consulting (10 days)
− RemoteDBA Services (1 year)

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Architecture Health Check
Detailed review of your Postgres database environment
to identify short-term and long-term improvements in the
areas of performance, reliability, and security.
Assess & Optimize – Part 1
What You Get
• Infrastructure analysis & data assessment (5 days)
− Index and Tables review
− Tuning parameters review
− Disaster Recovery planning
− Best practice capture

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Database Performance Improvement
Expert assistance to facilitate and implement the
recommendations of an AHC.
Assess & Optimize – Part 2
What You Get
• Customized Professional Services (time varies)

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High Availability
Focused on providing a reliable system designed for
achieving a pre-arranged Service Level Agreement
based up your specific needs.
Assess & Optimize – Part 3
What You Get
• Streaming Replication
− Customized service: Design And Deployment Of High Availability
Solutions For Postgres
• Shared Disk
− Hardware & OS guidance
− Database installation and tuning
− Cluster setup and testing
− Best practices documented

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Postgres
Experts
Strategic
Engagement
Build
Trust
Stay
Informed
EDB
Services
Choosing the Right Partner for Services

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But Don’t Take Our Word For It…
“EDB became part of the Bio-Imaging design team and helped us to make
valuable improvements to our replication design.”
-- Emmanuel Olart
Manager, Technical Services
Bioclinica
“During the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in 2014, I had been awake for 52 hours
with only 3 hours of sleep managing our…transaction queue. This year, my focus has
been on Thanksgiving left overs. Many thanks to EDB products and services for the
stability and performance in our…system.”
-- <Name Withheld>
VP of Engineering
<Company Name Withheld>
“The [EDB] engineer not only solved my problem, but gave me multiple ways that I
could do it to help me choose what was right for my environment. Very detailed and
easy to follow instructions as well.”
-- <Name Withheld>
DBA
<US Government Agency>

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Step 1:
Do Your
Homework
Step 2:
Review &
Assess
Step 3:
Plan for
Success
3 Steps to Getting Started

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• Read these 2 Blogs
− Part 1:
− 10 Steps to Planning Your Postgres Deployment
− http://www.enterprisedb.com/postgres-plus-edb-
blog/doug-hunley/10-steps-planning-your-
postgres-deployment-part-1
− Part 2:
− 10 Steps to Planning Your Postgres Deployment
− http://www.enterprisedb.com/postgres-plus-edb-
blog/doug-hunley/top-10-list-planning-postgres-
deployment-part-2
Looking for More Technical Details?

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How to Contact EDB
Email UsCall Us
www.enterprisedb.com

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Summary: Deployment Assistance
Subscriptions
• Subscription models include:
• Software licenses
• Tools for Performance,
Scalability, High Availability,
and Management
• Software Maintenance
• Premium Support Services
• Subscriptions for Production
• EDB Postgres Enterprise
• EDB Postgres Standard
• Subscriptions for R&D
• EDB Postgres Developer
Services
• Comprehensive
professional services that
define success from the
outset
• Deployment Kick Start
• Group & Team Success
• Architectural Health
Check (AHC)
• Database Performance
Improvement
• High Availability Services
Training
• World-class training that
fits your needs:
• Classroom & on-site
• Online
• NEW - eSubscriptions
• DBA & Developer tracks
available
• Courses cover
administration, migration,
performance tuning and
more
Certification
• Convenient online exam
format
• PostgreSQL & EDB
Postgres programs
• Associate-level
• Professional-level
• EDB Training curriculum
supports Certification
program