Case Study: Guardian Life achieves 25-50% DBA cost savings and frees DBAs for value-add work with Datavail

Guardian Life - Customer Case Study

Guardian Life, a large insurance enterprise, engaged Datavail to lower database administration costs, improve DBA quality, allow internal teams to focus on core business initiatives, and provide 24×7 coverage for their Oracle, Microsoft SQL and DB2 environments. They contracted Datavail’s remote database management / 24×7 managed database services to address these challenges.

Datavail delivered remote managed DB services and continuous support, freeing senior DBAs to concentrate on higher‑value work and accelerating database engineering improvements. Guardian Life reported 25–50% cost savings, greatly improved DBA coverage, and measurable improvements in DBA expertise, database availability, quality and reliability—achieving more progress in the first year of Datavail support than in the prior five years.

Guardian Life

David Skrivanek

Database Manager