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0 pointsScubabear683y ago0 comments

The requirement that you have a public IP for your database and a third party system is sucking in our data are giant red flags for industries with any sort of confidential or proprietary data.

A huge strength of NocoDB is that it is run as just another service accessible your DB that you own.

I can see Virtual Columns being interesting for reporting-type purposes. The mentioned use case of “notations” on data owned by someone else is also interesting. But again - do I really want someone else hosting my data? I don’t know.

Is the target here then basically shadow IT adding onto other people’s data sources that they can’t get the devs to change directly?

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mgummelt3y ago

Yep, lots of users need on-prem/VPC deployment. It's next on the list. If you subscribe to our email list, you'll be the first to know when it's ready. In the meantime, we can set up an SSH tunnel for you if you email us.

I think low-code and really SaaS itself has made "Shadow IT" here to stay. Gone are the days of centralized IT. The sprawl and integration of disparate computing systems is the new normal.

But many of the engineers we talk with want to provide a self-serve environment for tooling, because it takes a lot of work off their plate that they can redirect to creating products and infrastructure. Data teams provide self-serve sandboxes to their teammates for analytics. We think engineers will come to see the importance of providing tooling sandboxes as well.

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