The global data center market will double its size over the next 5 years, reaching a total of $304 billion. As a result of this, efficient database capacity planning will be essential to keep operational costs under control. However, current capacity planning relies heavily on manual analysis, leaving to systematic capacity over-dimensioning and unnecessary license and hardware costs.
Over the last 5 years, we have developed SQL GOVERNOR: a complex but intuitive capacity planning software. SQL GOVERNOR offers a standalone solution for efficient server consolidation and optimization. Our patented solution reduces the total number of servers by matching the optimal database instances for each server and by maximizing the resource efficiency. This results in database lifecycle savings of up to 50%, at equal or better performance. For large companies with significant database infrastructure, this represents savings of over €1 million per year.
Following the market trends and our own past experience and numbers, we expect to expand the implementation of SQL GOVERNOR and reach a total of over 200 large businesses by 2024. By significantly reducing operational database costs, SQL GOVERNOR will translate into at least €200 million in cumulated savings for key EU enterprises, thus reducing the transfer flux towards US-based database vendors. Additionally, in terms of electricity consumption, this will also translate into total savings of 2,000 GWh per year in database processing efficiency, which is roughly equivalent to half of the yearly electricity consumption in the city of Brussels.
By cooperating with our reseller partners, , we will now extend our reach to effectively distribute SQL GOVERNOR to mainly medium and large companies, who are our target clients. We expect a gradual customer increase, reinforced by our country expansion strategy and the release of technical upgrades for further market expansion. We also expect to achieve a higher percentage of large customers as a result of higher reseller implication and the synergy capabilities with our key partners.
