Navigating Through The Fog in a Cloud-Based Database

<p>For Yugabyte CEO and Co-founder, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kranganathan/">Karthik Ranganathan</a>, his love for technology started like most: with a video game. Those days of sitting in front of a device button-mashing ignited a fire within him that only grew until he asked himself an obvious question: How do these things work? That question and an innate curiosity around technology carried him to stops at Microsoft and Facebook, ultimately leading him to <a href="https://www.yugabyte.com/">Yugabyte Db.</a> On today’s episode of <em>IT Visionaries,</em> Karthik speaks about the evolution of the cloud, our growing need for our data to be closer to us, and how open-source databases are becoming industry standard, meaning those that refuse to adapt are being left behind.</p> 3 Key Takeaways <ul> <li>The biggest shift in the industry has been to cloud</li> <li>Data needs to be as close to the user as possible</li> <li>Open-source databases are now industry standard and companies that refuse to adapt are falling behind</li> </ul> <p>---</p> <p> IT Visionaries is brought to you by the Salesforce Customer 360 Platform - the #1 cloud platform for digital transformation of every experience. Build connected experiences, empower every employee, and deliver continuous innovation - with the customer at the center of everything you do. Learn more at <a href="https://www.salesforce.com/products/platform/overview/">salesforce.com/platform</a></p>