DataStax Announces Strategic Collaboration With Microsoft
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DataStax delivers a leading fully-distributed database for public and private cloud deployments
DataStax Enterprise on Microsoft Azure enables developers to develop, deploy and monitor enterprise-ready IoT, Web and mobile applications spanning public and private clouds
Scott Guthrie, EVP Cloud and Enterprise, Microsoft, to co-deliver Cassandra Summit 2015 keynote
(Cassandra Summit 2015) DataStax, the company that delivers Apache Cassandra™ to the enterprise, today announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to deliver Internet of Things (IoT), Web and mobile applications in public, private or hybrid cloud environments. With DataStax Enterprise (DSE), a leading fully-distributed database platform, available on Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform, enterprises can quickly build high-performance applications that can massively scale and remain operationally simple across public and private clouds, with ease and at lightning speed.
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PERSPECTIVES ON THE NEWS "At Microsoft we're focused on enabling customers to run their businesses more productively and successfully," said Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise, Microsoft. "As more organizations build their critical business applications in the cloud, DataStax has proved to be a natural Azure partner through their ability to enable enterprises to build solutions that can scale across thousands of servers which is necessary in today's hyper-scale cloud environment."
"We are witnessing an increased adoption of DataStax Enterprise deployments in hybrid cloud environments, so closely aligning with Microsoft benefits any organization looking to quickly and easily build high-performance IoT, Web and mobile apps," said Billy Bosworth, CEO, DataStax. "Working with a world-class organization like Microsoft has been an incredible experience and we look forward to continuing to work together to meet the needs of enterprises looking to successfully transition their business to the cloud."
"As a leader in providing information and insight in critical areas that shape today's business landscape, we knew it was critical to transform our back-end business processes to address scale and flexibility" said Graham Lammers, Director, IHS. "With DataStax Enterprise on Azure we are now able to create a next generation big data application to support the decision-making process of our customers across the globe."
BUILD SIMPLE, SCALABLE AND ALWAY-ON APPS IN RECORD SPEED To address the ever-increasing demands of modern businesses transitioning from on-premise to hybrid cloud environments, the DataStax Enterprise on Azure on-demand cloud database solution provides enterprises with both development and production ready Bring Your Own License (BYOL) DSE clusters that can be launched in minutes on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace using Azure Resource Management (ARM) Templates. This enables the building of high-performance IoT, Web and mobile applications that can predictably scale across global Azure data centers with ease and at remarkable speed. Additional benefits include:
Hybrid Deployment: Easily move DSE workloads between data centers, service providers and Azure, and build hybrid applications that leverage resources across all three.
Simplicity: Easily manage, develop, deploy and monitor database clusters by eliminating data management complexities.
Scalability: Quickly replicate online applications globally across multiple data centers into the cloud/hybrid cloud environment.
Continuous Availability: DSE's peer-to-peer architecture offers no single point of failure. DSE also provides maximum flexibility to distribute data where it's needed most by replicating data across multiple data centers, the cloud and mixed cloud/on-premise environments.
MICROSOFT ENTERPRISE CLOUD ALLIANCE & FAST START PROGRAM DataStax also announced it has joined Microsoft's Enterprise Cloud Alliance, a collaboration that reinforces DataStax's commitment to provide the best set of on-premise, hosted and public cloud database solutions in the industry. The goal of Microsoft's Enterprise Cloud Alliance partner program is to create, nurture and grow a strong partner ecosystem across a broad set of Enterprise Cloud Products delivering the best on-premise, hosted and Public Cloud solutions in the industry. Through this alliance, DataStax and Microsoft are working together to create enhanced enterprise-grade offerings for the Azure Marketplace that reduce the complexities of deployment and provisioning through automated ARM scripting capabilities.
Additionally, as a member of Microsoft Azure's Fast Start program, created to help users quickly deploy new cloud workloads, DataStax users receive immediate access to the DataStax Enterprise Sandbox on Azure for a hands-on experience testing out DSE on Azure capabilities. DataStax Enterprise Sandbox on Azure can be found here.
Cassandra Summit 2015, the world's largest gathering of Cassandra users, is taking place this week and Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie, DataStax CEO Billy Bosworth, and Apache Cassandra Project Chair and DataStax Co-founder and CTO Jonathan Ellis, will deliver the conference keynote at 10 a.m. PT on Wednesday, September 23. The keynote can be viewed at DataStax.com.
ABOUT DATASTAX DataStax delivers Apache Cassandra™ in a database platform purpose-built for the performance and availability demands for IoT, Web and mobile applications. This gives enterprises a secure, always-on database technology that remains operationally simple when scaling in a single datacenter or across multiple datacenters and clouds.
With more than 500 customers in over 50 countries, DataStax is the database technology of choice for the world's most innovative companies, such as Netflix, Safeway, ING, Adobe, Intuit and eBay. Based in Santa Clara, Calif., DataStax is backed by industry-leading investors including Comcast Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Meritech Capital, Premji Invest and Scale Venture Partners. For more information, visit DataStax.com or follow us @DataStax.
