The database is the engine of AI. No one maintains the engine.
Timo Lindström, CEO, DB Pro Oy & DB Pro Services Oy. Investment in artificial intelligence is growing. Investment in database infrastructure is not growing at the same rate. This [...]
MS Fabric is a promise, but who will ensure that the data is actually there?
Timo Lindström, CEO, DB Pro Oy & DB Pro Services Oy. Microsoft Fabric is Microsoft's response to the needs of modern data architecture. It is a unified analytics platform [...]
Your AI project is failing. The reason is not AI.
Timo Lindström, CEO, DB Pro Oy & DB Pro Services Oy. Organizations are investing heavily in AI projects: new models, new platforms, new teams. The results are often disappointing—not [...]
Why database issues need to be brought to the boardroom
Timo Lindström, CEO, DB Pro Oy & DB Pro Services Oy. The total cost of ownership for a two-processor Microsoft SQL Server is over 600,000 euros over five years. [...]
Developers write the queries, the CFO pays the bill
Timo Lindström, CEO, DB Pro Oy & DB Pro Services Oy. The cost structure of the database environment is unique. Decisions are made at the technical level, but their [...]
Artificial intelligence is like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates
Robin Aro, Head of Services Forrest Gump’s mother’s famous analogy about a box of chocolates fits surprisingly well when describing artificial intelligence: “AI is like a box of chocolates. [...]
DBA is dead. Long live DBA.
Timo Lindström, CEO, DB Pro Oy & DB Pro Services Oy. Ten years ago, every large organization had dedicated database administrators. They knew their environment inside and out. They [...]
Lift-and-shift to the cloud = putting out a fire with gasoline
Timo Lindström, CEO, DB Pro Oy & DB Pro Services Oy. SQL Server 2016 will reach end of support in a couple of months, in July 2026. Thousands of [...]
Performance Metrics Are IT’s Biggest Delusion
Timo Lindström, CEO, DB Pro Oy & DB Pro Services Oy. Your dashboard looks green. The alerts are silent. Yet your costs keep rising year after year. This is [...]
The TCO of one of your database servers was over 600,000 euros
Did you know that figure has multiplied several times over? Timo Lindström, CEO, DB Pro Oy & DB Pro Services Oy. At DB Pro Services Oy, we are constantly [...]