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Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Eric Channing Brown, VP of Corporate Marketing. Popeyes sandwich shortage highlights the necessity of real-time inventory management So, you’ve hyped your product so well that you can’t keep enough on the shelves.  Nice work! This is the case with the new Popeyes chicken sandwich, as reported by BuzzFeed. Honestly, this sounds like a wonderful position to be in. What business owner wouldn’t want so many people clamoring for their products that folks are freaking out because of local shortages?  Well, not the “freaking out” and “local shortages” part. But, otherwise, good job ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Louise Westoby, Senior Director, Product Marketing. When’s the last time you sat there patiently when a website or app took forever to load—either for personal or professional purposes? In the age of Amazon and smartphones, we all know how websites should work. When they don’t meet our expectations, we get frustrated.  For customer-facing sites, inefficient applications lead to disgruntled customers. For employee-facing enterprise apps, slow loading times lead to productivity decreases and unhappy staffers.  When we talk about expectations, we mean this: Nearly half of users expect sites to load in two ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Chelsea Navo, Vanguard Lead, Presales Architecture. The banking and financial services sector has been on the front line of digital transformation— and as a result, banks have an incredible amount of customer data and transactional data on-hand. Many banks have put that data to good use and readily embraced data-driven applications to keep up with consumer demand. Still, many banks are completely missing the mark when it comes to how they’re managing that data. A 2019 study from Accenture found that 50% of consumers want their banks to blend physical branches and ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Kathryn Erickson, Director of Strategic Partnerships at DataStax. We’re excited to announce consistent data, infrastructure, and application management and operations for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. This advanced DataStax integration builds directly on VMware’s vSphere and VMware Cloud platforms to deliver a uniform experience across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud deployments and enterprise-grade availability. With hundreds of joint customers, we’ve validated managing DataStax Enterprise (DSE) and DataStax Distribution of Apache Cassandra™ to provide simple prescriptive approaches to deploying with VMware, and today we’re making that even easier with additional deployment options. We are: Adding to ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Robin Schumacher, SVP and Chief Product Officer. When the NoSQL movement began years ago, there was intense debate on which NoSQL databases were best for heavy-lifting applications with lots of data. Today, that discussion is settled, with those in the know acknowledging that Apache Cassandra™ is the top NoSQL engine for tackling large volumes of operational data.   Cassandra’s masterless, divide-and-conquer architecture easily sails past all other databases that are either master-slave or multi-master in design, and ensures that your applications are future-proofed where scale is concerned.  That said, open source Cassandra has ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Matt Kennedy, Senior Director, Cloud Solutions. More and more organizations are using containers to build modern microservices-architected applications at scale because they enable developers to work quickly and efficiently, seamlessly moving software from one environment to the next.  Not only does this lower costs and accelerate time to market, it also increases developer engagement. In case you hadn’t heard, developers pretty much like getting paid to tinker with the latest tools and technologies on the market. So, more companies are using platforms like Docker to build applications with containers. And of those ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Matt Kennedy, Senior Director, Cloud Solutions. In an age where speed, availability, and performance matter most, modern applications are increasingly built with microservices. As a result, companies are able to bring better applications to market faster with the peace of mind that comes with knowing they can scale rapidly Apart from hybrid cloud and multi-cloud computing environments, containers are one of the key technologies that enable microservices, and even if you might instinctively think of it as a pair of pants, you may have heard of the most popular container platform: Docker ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Chelsea Navo, Vanguard Lead, Presales Architecture. Enterprises want the best of both worlds, which is why they’re increasingly adopting hybrid and multi-cloud strategies to take advantage of what both public and private cloud providers have to offer and build powerful, modern applications. The hybrid cloud market is expected to grow to $97.64 billion by 2023—quite the uptick from the $44.6 billion the market realized in 2018.  Today, more than 65% of organizations use hybrid cloud environments. Not only does a hybrid cloud infrastructure enable companies to leverage the scalability the public cloud ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Rachel Herz, Senior Manager, Account-based Marketing. Modernizing IT architectures is no small task, but it’s one nearly every enterprise is now facing in order to build better applications, innovate faster, and stay competitive.  The challenges enterprises are facing around IT architecture modernization are real and various. A survey we recently conducted with Dimensional Research has illuminated specifically what these challenges are and how IT executives are trying to surmount them.  We surveyed more than 300 IT execs who work at companies with at least 5,000 employees—80% were from companies with 10K or ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Billy Bosworth, CEO. For several years DataStax has worked with customers in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Recently, our roadmap has intensified and accelerated in response to customer demands. We all know that cloud is changing every aspect of business—both for our customers, and for ourselves. We must continue to challenge ourselves to rethink the products we build and develop new ways to take them to market. To that end, we made some big product announcements in May at our Accelerate conference. Our most exciting news by far was the announcement of DataStax ... Read More