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Microsoft Azure expands its NoSQL portfolio with Managed Instances for Apache Cassandra

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At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced the launch of Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, its latest NoSQL database offering and a competitor to Cassandra-centric companies like Datastax. Microsoft describes the new service as a ‘semi-managed offering that will help companies bring more of their Cassandra-based workloads into its cloud. “Customers can easily take […] Continue reading Microsoft Azure expands its NoSQL portfolio with Managed Instances for Apache Cassandra→

Datastax acquires Kesque as it gets into data streaming

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Datastax, the company best known for commercializing the open-source Apache Cassandra database, is moving beyond databases. As the company announced today, it has acquired Kesque, a cloud messaging service. The Kesque team built its service on top of the Apache Pulsar messaging and streaming project. Datastax has now taken that team’s knowledge in this area […] Continue reading Datastax acquires Kesque as it gets into data streaming→

DataStax Astra provides developers with more deployment options to run Cassandra workloads

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DataStax announced that enterprises and developers now have the freedom to run any Apache Cassandra workload, anywhere, at global-scale with DataStax Astra on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. Astra enables users to rapid… Continue reading DataStax Astra provides developers with more deployment options to run Cassandra workloads→

DataStax Astra: A DBaaS that simplifies cloud-native Apache Cassandra application development

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DataStax announced the general availability of DataStax Astra, a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) for Apache Cassandra applications, simplifying cloud-native Cassandra application development. The DBaaS reduces deployment time from weeks to minutes, remov… Continue reading DataStax Astra: A DBaaS that simplifies cloud-native Apache Cassandra application development→

DataStax Enterprise 6.8: Advanced cloud-native data and bare-metal performance

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DataStax announced the general availability of DataStax Enterprise (DSE) 6.8. DSE 6.8 adds new capabilities for enterprises to advance bare-metal performance, support more workloads, and enhance developer and operator experiences with Kubernetes. Built… Continue reading DataStax Enterprise 6.8: Advanced cloud-native data and bare-metal performance→

DataStax releases open-source Kubernetes Operator for Apache Cassandra

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DataStax released code for an Apache Cassandra Kubernetes operator to help enterprises and users succeed with scale-out, cloud-native data. This Kubernetes Operator for Apache Cassandra, cass-operator, is now available and ready for use by the communit… Continue reading DataStax releases open-source Kubernetes Operator for Apache Cassandra→

DataStax launches Kubernetes operator for open source Cassandra database

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Today, DataStax, the commercial company behind the open source Apache Cassandra project, announced an open source Kubernetes operator developed by the company to run a cloud native version of the database. When Sam Ramji, chief strategy officer at DataStax, came over from Google last year, the first thing he did was take the pulse of […] Continue reading DataStax launches Kubernetes operator for open source Cassandra database→

Datastax acquires The Last Pickle

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Data management company Datastax, one of the largest contributors to the Apache Cassandra project, today announced that it has acquired The Last Pickle (and no, I don’t know what’s up with that name either), a New Zealand-based Cassandra consulting and services firm that’s behind a number of popular open-source tools for the distributed NoSQL database. […] Continue reading Datastax acquires The Last Pickle→

100% of IT execs are modernizing architectures, but struggling with data silos and vendor lock-in

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99% of IT execs report challenges with architecture modernization and 98% report challenges with their corporate data architectures (data silos), a DataStax survey reveals. Vendor lock-in (95%) was of particular concern among respondents. The survey, c… Continue reading 100% of IT execs are modernizing architectures, but struggling with data silos and vendor lock-in→