The applications being built today have drastically different requirements than those built five, 10 or 20 years ago. In this seminar, you heard from Chief Architect Steve Emmerich about how this company that processes $13 trillion daily is reconsidering database deployment architecture and working toward an always-on, high-performance, elastically scalable database. You also heard NuoDB CTO Seth Proctor discuss key database points to consider when building or migrating applications for the cloud and modern data center, including: - Spanning multiple geographies / data centers - Delivering elasticity - Providing high performance even with heavy application usage - Offering around-the-clock resiliency and uptime