Organizations are leveraging big data applications to underpin scalable applications across every industry. Whether it’s transactional data for banking or inventory and recommendation systems in retail, Apache Cassandra is the defacto choice for storing critical data in distributed applications. VMware and DataStax have partnered to offer a joint solution that provides built-in high availability and failure protection across availability zones, regions, data centers, and clouds, which simplifies operations and eliminates silos with consistent processes and tooling across clouds, and offers intrinsic security for data-at-rest and in-flight.