When https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/?utm_content=inline-mention launched Atlas, its managed Database as a Service offering, six years ago, managed cloud databases were still a hard sale to about half the executives at enterprises with legacy systems, said https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewad/, who oversees Atlas as the senior president of product. At the time, companies were shifting data to the cloud, but still managing the databases in virtual machines that were running on public cloud infrastructure, he said.
Data has always been the hardest part to manage of IT systems, from https://thenewstack.io/docontrol-automating-saas-data-security-policy-enforcement/ to managing the data lifecycle, Davidson said.
Developers, in particular, have caught on to the benefits of Databases as a Service, Davidson said.
They may be delivered as a service, or you’re managing three different services,” Davidson said.