dbaDIRECT Inc., the leading provider of remote DBA services, announced today that Alberto-Culver (NYSE: ACV), a multi-national manufacturer and marketer of hair and skin beauty care products, has chosen to leverage dbaDIRECT’s Controller(SM) services to ensure the highest levels of availability and performance for its business-critical database infrastructure. The Controller includes all the duties of a full-time rDBA—monitoring, maintenance, tuning, backup, recovery, reporting, and more on a 24 X 365 basis.“After looking at many remote DBA service providers, Alberto-Culver chose dbaDIRECT because they offered us the most complete coverage for our very diverse database environment,” said Charles P. Strauch, senior systems analyst and remote dba for Alberto-Culver. “The continuous monitoring of our mission-critical databases and the collective talent of their DBAs will insure that our databases are optimally tuned to our application specifications. The collection of statistics that they provide will help to keep management informed of any potential performance or capacity issues. Our objective was to provide the highest level of database support in order to meet Alberto-Culver’s desired level of excellence.”
“In today’s fast-paced e-business marketplace where business-critical data must be accessible 24 X 365, proactive support of the database infrastructure is essential,” said John Bostick, president and CEO of dbaDIRECT. “Industry-leaders like Alberto-Culver have recognized that our services provide a reliable, cost-effective way to take system uptime, performance, and rDBA staffing efficiency to the highest possible level. We are delighted to be working with Alberto-Culver and look forward to helping them achieve continued success.”
About Alberto-Culver
Alberto-Culver Company manufactures, distributes and markets leading beauty and health care products including Alberto VO5, St. Ives Swiss Formula and TRESemme in the United States and internationally. Its Sally Beauty Company is the number one marketer of professional beauty care products in the United States through its chain of Sally Beauty Supply stores. Sally also operates its BSG (Beauty Systems Group) network selling professional beauty care brands such as Matrix, Paul Mitchell, Graham Webb and Sebastian to salon owners and salon professionals in exclusive geographic territories.