Often, yes, with replication and a short cutover window. We rehearse the cutover and agree a rollback point before the real one.
Abu Dhabi Solutions
Best Database solutions company in Abu Dhabi
Relational and analytical databases migrated, hardened and kept available through patches and cloud moves. Hosn Al Tomoh works with organisations in Abu Dhabi on database platforms, agreeing scope, responsibilities and proof of completion for each phase from the start.
Database work keeps systems of record fast, available and secure: migration between engines or to the cloud, high availability, performance tuning and security hardening. Runbooks then keep them that way through every patch cycle.
The federal Personal Data Protection Law sets the baseline across the UAE. Government entities in the emirate also follow the information security standards of the Abu Dhabi Digital Authority, healthcare providers follow ADHICS, and companies in ADGM follow its own data protection regulations. We plan hosting, data classification and evidence around these from the start, and quote in UAE dirhams.
Before go-live, we run a full rehearsal of the cutover with the team who will operate the service, and agree in advance how problems will be escalated in the first weeks after launch.
Where you already work with systems integrators or vendors, we can deliver in partnership with them, with each party's responsibilities written into the contract.
Where the effort goes
We concentrate on the points below, because that is where the work usually stumbles.
- High availability and backup designs proven by real failover and restore.
- Performance baselines captured before migration and compared after it.
- Encryption, access and auditing aligned with each data class.
What we check first
Database migrations fail on the details: character sets, stored procedures and batch jobs nobody documented. We inventory them first and rehearse the migration with production-sized data.
At the end of each phase we provide the proof your risk and audit teams need to file: test results, access reviews and signed handover documents.
Before you start
Practical questions from IT and procurement teams.
Each phase is scoped and priced separately, with the team, the deliverables and the acceptance criteria written down, and you receive an itemised quote before work starts.
Your team, unless you choose managed services. We name who is responsible for each component before launch, hand over the runbooks and train your people.
How the work runs
Four stages, each with clear criteria for moving to the next.
Discover
We document the current set-up, the people involved and the constraints, and agree what success looks like.
Design and plan
We set the target design, phases, test approach and acceptance criteria, and review them with your architects and risk team.
Build and test in stages
We deliver in increments, testing and demonstrating each one before the next begins.
Hand over
We hand over runbooks, train your team and support the launch, then formally transfer responsibility to the people you nominate.
Ready to mature your operations?
Book a technical consultation with our principal engineers to map out your architecture and transition plan.