Cloud Journeys: Getting to Hybrid with Distributed SQL

The text discusses the importance of resilient technical infrastructure in today's world, as evidenced by recent IT outages such as the Crowdstrike incident. It highlights that by 2028, a cloud strategy will be critical to business success, with about 70% of workloads running in a cloud environment. The text also presents various case studies where companies have successfully moved from on-premise legacy database solutions to hybrid or single region cloud deployments using CockroachDB, a distributed SQL database. These examples demonstrate how the cloud can offer necessary digital redundancy and improve operational efficiency while ensuring data consistency and low latency access. The text concludes by encouraging businesses to consider focusing on a forward-minded cloud strategy for their future growth and scale.