Beyond Migration: How Microsoft and Striim Are Modernizing the Future of Databases Together

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Shireesh Thota and Alok Pareek discuss the modernization of databases and the importance of real-time data movement.

Modernizing databases in practice involves more than just moving data—it requires rethinking how systems, developers, and AI interact. In this episode, Shireesh Thota, Corporate Vice President of Azure Databases at Microsoft, joins Alok Pareek, co-founder and Executive Vice President of Product Development at Striim, to discuss the evolution of operational databases, the rise of real-time data movement, and what it really takes to modernize at scale. Together, they discuss how Microsoft’s Un...

People in this episode

Host: Alok Pareek

Guest: Shireesh Thota

Topics covered

• database modernization
• real-time data movement
• operational databases
• AI interaction
• data migration

Keywords

• database modernization
• real-time data
• data migration
• operational databases
• AI

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Organizations: Microsoft, Striim

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