Distributed, always-on data management

Today’s businesses must ensure their customers are always able to stay connected to them, and access their personal data wherever and whenever they need. Yet outages still plague companies, threatening profitability and reputations.  Using the DataStax Enterprise (DSE) data management platform, enterprises can ensure their applications are always available, even when other applications fail.

“We deliver data anytime, anywhere, every time, all the time along with unmatched performance, continuous availability and fantastic customer experiences,” said Robin Schumacher, senior VP and Chief Product Officer at DataStax. “Companies can lose millions of dollars per minute, so downtime threats are huge.  Your customers are constantly connected to your business so your software has to be constantly available.”

Perform Better Than Competitors
System outages equal headline news. In July 2016, 2,300 Southwest flights were inadvertently cancelled costing $54 million. Before that, 2,300 Delta flights had been impacted by a glitch that lasted three days and cost $150 million.

“I’ve seen customers that haven’t experienced one second of unplanned downtime in the six years I’ve been at DataStax,” said Schumacher. “That’s rare, because most businesses are running legacy database software that can’t deliver constant uptime.”

DataStax’s zero downtime track record is achieved with the masterless architecture at the foundation of its commercial DataStax Enterprise platform. The company is a key contributor to Apache Cassandra™, giving the DSE platform continuous availability and extreme scalability. DSE also unifies search, analytics, and graph, with a consistent security model across the data platform. In addition, DataStax Enterprise integrates with data security mechanisms to encrypt data at rest and in motion to keep customers’ data continuously secure and available.

Continuous Availability in the CARDS
Globally distributed applications with thousands or even millions of worldwide users are particularly challenging.  Software development managers choosing a data management platform for these applications must look for several key capabilities. DataStax uses the acronym “CARDS” to articulate what enterprise customers need.
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