In today's 24/7 global economy, US companies face a relentless demand for data availability. A faltering database at midnight on the West Coast can derail a financial batch process in New York, disrupt an early-morning sales report in Chicago, or crash a customer-facing application for a user halfway around the world. The traditional model of in-house, 9-to-5 database administration is fundamentally misaligned with this reality, creating dangerou...