Why more companies are moving to cloud databases โ€“ even for critical operational data

1 ยท CockroachDB ยท Sept. 14, 2022, 2 p.m.
While many companies have long since moved their application data and analytics data into the cloud, operational data has lagged a bit behind. There are a variety of reasons for this, but a primary one is that operational data is often both sensitive (containing PII) and mission-critical. Many companies are hesitant to fix something that, from their perspective, has not been broken, and hesitant to put critical data into the hands of people outside the company....