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By Ed Anuff, Chief Product Officer, DataStax - When it comes to digital transformation, data architectures have gotten short shrift. Many enterprises have focused on modernizing by moving applications to the cloud, or building ecommerce offerings (if they are retailers). But in many cases, data has been left out of the digital transformation story because data systems tend to be large, monolithic, fragile, and difficult to deal with—in other words, there are significant risks to the busine...

DataStax Astra Is Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to industry’s first open multi-cloud serverless database SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DataStax today announced the availability of DataStax Astra, the industry’s first serverless Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) for Apache Cassandra™ running in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. Enterprises can now...

DataStax is sticking true to its aim of making its cloud-based Database-as-a-Service as easy to use as possible, by making Astra serverless.

Datastax acquires Kesque as it gets into data streaming 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 and, combined with its own expertise, is launching its own Pulsar-based streaming...