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Evaluating data management platforms for cloud applications

Understanding what's required and how to be successful

Published February 2018

For any business that wants to successfully compete in today’s digital economy, it is not a question of if but rather how much of their business will be done with cloud applications.

A cloud application is one with many endpoints including browsers, mobile devices, and/or machines that are geographically distributed. The application is intensely transactional (high velocity reads and/or writes), always available, and instantaneously responsive no matter the number of users or machines using the application. In short, businesses need cloud applications to deliver real-time value at epic scale.