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Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Louise Westoby, Senior Director, Product Marketing. The open source software market is expected to reach $32.95 billion by 2022, nearly tripling in growth in five years. Certainly the fact that 98% of developers use open source tools—even when they’re not supposed to—has something to do with this. A successful open source project requires the support of a strong community, including documentation, code contribution, testing, and bug fixing. DataStax recently announced its continued commitment to open source with expanded support of open source Apache Cassandra™. DataStax is the top maintainer of the Cassandra ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Louise Westoby, Senior Director, Product Marketing. Data modeling provides a means of planning and blueprinting the complex relationship between an application and its data. It has become increasingly important as the “three Vs” of data—volume, variety, and velocity—continue to explode. But as the importance of data modeling, in general, has grown, data modeling with a relational database has rapidly become less relevant and effective. Relational databases simply aren’t designed to handle all the different types of data that are integral to modern databases. The mismatch between relational database capabilities and modern needs ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Ron Cohen, Vanguard Solutions Architect. Hybrid cloud, or the combination of on-premises data centers with one or more public or private cloud, is quickly becoming the go-to computing environment for enterprises looking to build modern applications. Enterprises are now investing in cloud technologies at a faster rate than they are investing in other software technologies combined, according to McKinsey & Company. In fact, the research firm estimates that cloud spending will grow more than six times faster than other IT expenditures through next year. The advantages of the cloud are clear, including ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Kathryn Erickson, Director of Strategic Partnerships at DataStax. DataStax Accelerate 2019, our inaugural user conference, turned out to be an incredible event chock-full of invaluable networking and enlightening presentations about building modern applications in hybrid cloud. It also brought our first Partner of the Year Award, which went to VMware. Why VMware? DataStax Customers have used a combination of VMware tools and platforms for years. This partnership has enabled us to further the simplicity achieved on vSAN by working with VMware to bring their vSAN Host Affinity option to market. Host affinity ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Robin Schumacher, SVP and Chief Product Officer. We’re excited to announce DataStax Constellation, our new cloud platform that’s designed to bring a whole new level of sophistication and capabilities to the Database as a Service (DBaaS) market in a very cost-effective manner. Constellation is a major addition to our already available powerful set of cloud capabilities and solutions. And while it’s true that other DBaaS offerings have been on the market for a while now, Constellation makes them look like a Blackberry to our iPhone. What Is Constellation? Constellation is a cloud ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Billy Bosworth, CEO. Today, we’re announcing DataStax Constellation, our new cloud data platform designed to make hybrid and multi-cloud data management ‘easy and obvious’ in a world where building applications can often be complex and confusing. With Constellation, enterprises will now get the extreme power of our data solutions with push-button simplicity. That power-made-simple will allow our customers to rapidly develop cloud applications with on-prem compatibility, along with smart services for performance monitoring that will span all Cassandra-based deployments, whether on-prem or in the cloud. DataStax’s masterless architecture uniquely positions us to ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Sarah Burr, Customer Marketing Manager. Want to win a DataStax Swag Bag? Follow @DataStax on Twitter and attend DataStax Accelerate 2019 for three chances to win! Submit your funny captions for the #Accelerate19Caption contest. Most clever captions win a Swag Bag. Answer our #Accelerate19Trivia correctly. First correct response wins a Swag Bag. Participate in the #Accelerate19Games Selfie Scavenger Hunt. Up to 3 attendees who post a selfie with the most items on our Scavenger Hunt list will win a Swag Bag. Contest rules: Contests run from 7:00am PST on Tuesday, May 21 ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Louise Westoby, Senior Director, Product Marketing. Managing the trade-off between consistency and availability is nothing new in distributed databases. It’s such a well-known issue that there is a theorem to describe it. While modern databases don’t tend to fall neatly into categories, the “CAP” theorem (also known as Brewer’s theorem) is still a useful place to start. The CAP theorem states that a database can’t simultaneously guarantee consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. Partition tolerance refers to the idea that a database can continue to run even if network connections between groups of ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Nick Panahi, Sr. Product Manager, Server. Securing your data should be top of mind for any modern application. Security breaches are on the rise and the associated penalties are severe, impacting your brand and, in turn, your customer loyalty and trust. Consider the following security practices to protect your data and the distributed system that manages it. These practices apply to distributed system architectures that could include intercloud, hybrid, and/or multi-cloud. They can also be applied to systems with specialized compliance requirements in regulated environments; financial services; payments; health systems/HIPAA in the ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Louise Westoby, Senior Director, Product Marketing. In previous posts, we’ve talked about the benefits of the hybrid cloud. We’ve also offered some guidance about making the transition to the hybrid cloud. So you know about the “whys” and “hows” of moving to the hybrid cloud. But those are really just two parts of a trifecta. The third part, and the topic of this post, focuses on one of the main keys to success with hybrid cloud: open source software. The age of open source has arrived As a recent article in Linux ... Read More