MINICASE STUDY Flexibility of AlwaysOn Distributed Database Enables

MINI-CASE STUDY Flexibility of Always-On Distributed Database Enables Cloud, On-Premises, or Hybrid Model “Microsoft Azure is the ideal cloud platform for Data. Stax’s massively scalable distributed database technology, enabling customers to start small and scale to any size, in the cloud, onpremises, or hybrid. ” – Matt Rollender, VP of Infrastructure & Ecosystem Partners, Data. Stax MICROSOFT AZURE ISV: Data. Stax WEB SITE: www. datastax. com LOCATION: Santa Clara, CA, USA ORG SIZE: 300 -500 MICROSOFT AZURE ISV PROFILE: Data. Stax delivers Apache Cassandra, a leading distributed database technology, to the enterprise. Apache Cassandra is built to be agile, always-on, and predictably scalable to any size. With more than 500 customers in over 50 countries, Data. Stax is the database technology and transactional backbone of choice for innovative companies such as Netflix, Intuit, and e. Bay. Read about other Microsoft Azure ISVs § SITUATION As the definition of very large data sets evolves, scaling up online applications under dynamic and high-volume workloads while maintaining uptime is a challenge of complexity and cost. Data. Stax needed an infrastructure to match its high-scale and “always-on” platform to deliver an agile system to manage large volumes of transactional data across multiple data centers. § SOLUTION Data. Stax uses Microsoft Azure Cloud Services and Virtual Machines to provide a cloud infrastructure platform for customers who need to deploy always-on online applications on a distributed database technology that can scale up or down rapidly as business demands. Data. Stax’s peerto-peer architecture allows businesses to leverage existing on-premises data and quickly replicate it to the cloud. § BENEFITS Microsoft Azure and Data. Stax enable applications to be running with a multiple-node cluster in minutes. Developing apps on Microsoft Azure is easy with Data. Stax Cassandra’s SQL-like programming language.