Why Everyone Left Standing is Going to be Hybrid and Multi-Cloud

In the past, venture capitalists were skeptical about the need for distributed database platforms outside of tech giants like Google and Amazon. However, today it is clear that any business wanting to connect with customers via digital applications requires a multi-home based platform. Multi-cloud has become the new multi-data center approach for many enterprises. Gartner Group identifies four different cloud deployment models: Architecture Spanning, Use-Case Specific, Multicloud, and Intercloud. The latter is an evolution of the multi-data center, multi-home design with single applications spanning multiple clouds and on-premise data centers. DataStax's active-everywhere architecture allows for easy provisioning, deployment, upgrading, and administration of a secured database cluster that runs across multiple clouds and on-premises. This is not something offered by legacy relational database management systems or cloud vendor databases limited to their own platforms.