Adjusting to a cloud-first reality necessitates a rethink of the data layer. That modern data layer is a crucial consideration in the face of this seismic upheaval. When moving to the cloud, businesses need to re-evaluate their data layer strategy...it's not up for debate.

A delay of even two to three seconds in an application's performance may have a devastating effect on the user experience and, by extension, on a company's bottom line in today's digital economy. In order to meet the needs of today's consumers who expect real-time performance from mission-critical business applications, data processing must be lightning-quick. At DataStax we have found that it is imperative that the data layer offers instant performance, hyper-scale, high availability, global distribution, and hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud capability to enable today's high-growth applications.

In this session, we will explore the practical learnings of what this modern data-layer needs to look like.