Database Storage Optimization for the High-Performance DBA

After a while, if you lead database teams, the pattern becomes familiar. Your DBAs spend too much time firefighting. Complexity keeps rising. The time available for real improvement keeps shrinking. The pressure shows up in the data. The 2025 State of Database Report puts numbers behind that reality. DBAs spend an average of 27 hours a week on reactive work, and only 40% say their monitoring environment’s fully unified.