With hundreds of thousands of companies surging into the cloud and aspiring to be a data-driven business, cloud databases are becoming the central nervous system for the digital economy. Award-winning journalist and world-class content leader John Foley—who’s also a Cloud Wars contributing editor—has created the Cloud Database Report to help business leaders and the tech industry stay up to date on this red-hot strategic technology.
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The Big Themes:
- A lot of exciting things happening: Gartner is estimating that 75% of databases will be migrated to the cloud or be launched in the cloud by the end of next year.
- Big Data startup Ocient: Just raised $40 million in Series B to fund work on ingesting data on exabyte scale.
- IDC forecast: What they call the “Enterprise Datasphere” is growing 2X faster than the “Consumer Datasphere.”
- Putting databases into outer space: If you’re storing your digital assets in satellites, maybe then physical space for storage units becomes less of an issue here on planet Earth.
The Big Quotes:
- “We went from terabytes, petabytes, exabytes, and now when you look at it globally, you’re talking yottabytes?”
- “So you can see that just tremendous amount of data being created but much of it is ephemeral, and short lived, it’s cached and it’s gone.”
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Cloud Wars Live Digital All-Stars
John Foley is one of our regular Digital All-Stars. The All-Stars are experts whose video podcasts will focus on the critical themes shaping (and re-shaping!) the business world here in the digital age of 2021. Our intention is to provide regular chunks of timely ideas and insights about high-priority subjects from industry veterans with diverse backgrounds.
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