From the article: > Most new applications now run on the Web, across data centers and geographies, so that data can be close to the users wherever they are. Th

From the article: > Most new applications now run on the Web, across data centers and geographies, so that data can be close to the users wherever they are. That’s what DataStax is designed to support, Mr. Murphy said. I think to do that with Oracle is extremely expensive, so that would be a nice sweet spot to steal customers from Oracle if the workload matches what Cassandra can deliver (not all workloads, though, mind you)