Bridging to the cloud: The right database can make the difference

Key considerations when making a strategic commitment to a database platform

Published November 2018

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For increasing numbers of organisations, the new reality for development, deployment and delivery of applications and services is hybrid cloud. Few, if any, organisations are going to move all their strategic workloads to the cloud, but virtually every enterprise is embracing cloud for a wide variety of requirements.

To accelerate innovation, improve the IT delivery economic model and reduce risk, organisations need to combine data and experience in a cognitive model that yields deeper and more meaningful insights for smarter decision-making. The platform must enable fast data access in a security-rich, highly available and scalable manner, regardless of whether the data resides in a data center, departmental virtual server or on any type of cloud infrastructure.

This paper outlines what readers should consider when making a strategic commitment to a database platform that will act as a bridge from legacy environments to the cloud.