Performance bottlenecks, silent backup failures, weak access controls, and over-provisioned licensing cost money every day they go unfound. A Fortified Data health check finds them before they escalate, and typically identifies $50,000 to $500,000 in recoverable cost and performance.
Senior US-based consultants. Vendor-neutral findings.
Why it matters
Every one of these problems gets found eventually. The assessment decides when, and by whom.
Performance bottlenecks, silent backup failures, weak access controls, and over-provisioned licensing all surface in the end. An assessment produces the same information at a time you chose, without an incident attached to it.
A backup job that reports success every night but has never been restore-tested is the clearest case. Monitoring records it as healthy, and only an assessment that tests the restore establishes whether it is.
Each finding is rated for severity and each fix costed in effort, so the document can be read by a finance function as well as an engineering one. A list of several hundred warnings cannot be funded.
A database health check is a structured evaluation of a database environment across the six areas that decide whether it runs safely and economically: environment discovery, performance, security, availability, cost, and scalability. Fortified Data delivers it as a fixed-scope engagement that produces a scored report, severity-rated findings with root cause analysis, and a prioritized remediation roadmap, rather than a verbal summary.
It is a physical exam for the systems the rest of the business runs on. Nothing is changed during the assessment. You get a picture of the environment as it actually is, with each finding rated for severity and each fix costed in effort, so the report can go straight into a budget conversation.
Six areas, assessed in one engagement and reported in one document. A mixed estate does not get split into four separate reviews.
Server and database inventory, configuration, runtime and metadata analysis, and alignment against your stated business, system, and performance goals.
Query optimization, indexing, resource utilization, transaction throughput and response times, and resource contention.
Access controls, encryption, and compliance gaps measured against the frameworks in scope for your data.
Backup reliability, restore testing, disaster recovery procedures, and high availability architecture.
Licensing efficiency, resource allocation, and cloud spend against the capacity actually in use.
Growth headroom, modernization roadmap, and cloud readiness, drawn from the workload and growth analysis below.
One comprehensive assessment report. Every section is written to be read by someone who was not in the room.
An overall health score across all six areas, the critical findings that need attention first, and prioritized recommendations stated in business impact.
Detailed findings with severity ratings, root cause analysis for each, and specific recommendations with implementation guidance.
Measured baselines for CPU, memory, storage, and network utilization, query performance, and transaction throughput, so later changes can be proved.
Historical growth pattern analysis, storage and performance forecasting, and archival and lifecycle recommendations.
Immediate actions for the first 30 days, short-term initiatives across one to six months, and long-term strategy across six to 24 months.
Step-by-step remediation procedures, resource requirements and estimated effort, and projected return for each recommended improvement.
Healthcare
Financial services
Retail
SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL assessed by consultants who work across all four, so a mixed estate gets one opinion instead of four.
Healthcare, financial services, and retail engagements, with HIPAA, SOX, PCI DSS, and GDPR controls assessed against how the databases are actually configured.
The people who run the assessment are the people who write the findings. There is no junior data collection pass handed upward.
Every recommendation carries implementation guidance, an effort estimate, and a projected return, so the report survives contact with a budget process.
Recommendations are based on what the environment needs, not on what is convenient to sell alongside them.
Assessment and reporting are done by an onshore team, with no hand-off to a different group at the end of a working day.
Included in the health check
Reactive scaling produces emergency fixes, outages, and a budget request nobody planned for. The health check answers whether the environment can carry the next two years of growth as part of the same engagement, rather than as a second project.
Current workload patterns, read and write separation strategies, load balancing, and connection pooling.
Data partitioning, sharding, and caching strategy against the access patterns the application actually produces.
Database architecture review, high availability and disaster recovery posture, and OS-level configuration.
Historical growth analysis, storage and performance forecasting, and archival, lifecycle, and compression opportunities.
Resource allocation and utilization, auto-scaling capability, and multi-tenancy and isolation strategy.
What each scaling route costs before you commit to it, so growth planning and budget planning use the same numbers.
A Fortified Data database health check covers six areas: environment discovery, performance, security, availability, cost, and scalability. Each area produces severity-rated findings, a root cause for each finding, and a specific remediation step, collected into one report with an overall health score.
Monitoring reports what is happening now and alerts when a threshold is crossed. A database health check examines configuration, architecture, security controls, licensing, and growth trend together, and finds the problems monitoring is not configured to see. A backup job that reports success every night but has never been restore-tested is the clearest case: monitoring records it as healthy, and only an assessment that tests the restore establishes whether it is.
Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, running on premises or in AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Fortified Data assesses a mixed estate in a single engagement and reports it in a single document, rather than splitting it across separate platform reviews.
A comprehensive assessment report containing an executive summary with the overall health score, a technical analysis with severity-rated findings and root cause analysis, measured performance baselines, growth projections, and a remediation roadmap split into immediate actions, short-term initiatives, and long-term strategy, each with resource requirements and projected return.
Yes. Fortified Data consolidated its separate scalability assessment into the health check, so one engagement covers performance baselines, historical growth analysis, workload distribution and read and write separation, partitioning and caching strategy, auto-scaling and resource allocation, and a storage and performance forecast.
A migration scoped without a baseline carries existing performance and licensing problems into a place that is more expensive to run them. A Fortified Data health check establishes the performance baseline, identifies the workloads that should be redesigned rather than lifted, and reports cloud readiness and cost impact, so the migration business case rests on measured numbers.
No. The Fortified Data database health check is a fixed-scope engagement that stands on its own. Organizations use it to decide whether to remediate internally, to scope a project, or to size a managed service, and the report is written so that any of those routes is possible.
Fortified Data scopes each health check to the number of database instances, the platforms involved, and whether the environment runs on premises, in cloud, or both, so there is no single list price. Scope and price are agreed before the assessment begins.
The assessment stands on its own. If the report points at work you would rather not staff internally, these are the routes.
We run your environment, with 24/7 monitoring, maintenance, and proactive improvement.
A guaranteed 15-minute emergency response plus monthly on-demand hours that bank when unused.
Project-based engagements for migrations, performance tuning, data modernization, business intelligence, and high availability and disaster recovery.
A health check gives you a scored, evidence-backed picture of performance, security, availability, cost, and growth headroom, and a roadmap you can take into a budget conversation.
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