To accelerate innovation, improve the IT delivery economic model and reduce risk, organizations need to combine data and experience in a cognitive model that yields deeper and more meaningful insights for smarter decision-making. Whether the user needs a data set maintained in house for customer analytics or access to a cloud-based data store for assessing marketing program results — or any other business need — a high-performance, highly available, mixed-load database platform is required. The platform must enable fast data access in a security-rich, highly available and scalable manner, regardless of whether the data resides in a data center, departmental virtual server or on any type of cloud infrastructure.
This paper outlines what readers should consider when making a strategic commitment to a database platform that will act as a bridge from legacy environments to the cloud.
Using a correct database can help in following ways:
Meeting these requirements is essential, because it provides organizations with the flexibility to enter at any point in the cloud adoption curve, retain existing investments and have their database platforms support assets on premises or on any of a number of different cloud environments.
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