Webinar: The Performance-Cost Tradeoff in Cloud Databases by Techstrong Learning

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The Performance-Cost Tradeoff in Cloud Databases

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As organizations grapple with managing cloud infrastructure costs amid aggressive AI adoption, the sticker-shock experience persists, forcing tough trade-offs.

In this focused webinar, based on exclusive new research, you’ll learn what cloud database pressures your peers are facing and how they are responding. Discover trends and strategies that can help you predict and navigate cost-driven tipping points.

Join our panel of experts, including Guy Currier, Analyst at The Futurum Group; Felipe Mendes and Guilherme da Silva Nogueira, both Technical Directors at ScyllaDB, who will share their expertise and research findings on technologies such as AI, DevOps, Big Data, and more.

Key Takeaways:

• Exclusive Survey Insights: Gain access to fresh data on how your peers prioritize performance metrics like P99 latency against budget constraints.

• Strategic Decision Frameworks: Discover practical frameworks for evaluating when to invest in high-performance, high-cost solutions versus when cost-efficient options are the smarter choice.

• Real-World Data Scenarios: See how teams weigh higher costs for essential performance versus achieving more with cost-effective databases. Get practical strategies for handling peak events, production incidents, and key business milestones that drive database decisions.

• Balancing Act Mastered: Understand the tradeoffs between managed administration, raw throughput, scalability, and ease of use in dynamic cloud environments.

When

Tuesday, January 20, 2026 · 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time (US & Canada) (GMT -5:00)

Presenters

Jared Harris

Webinar Host

Felipe Cardeneti Mendes

Technical Director - ScyllaDB

Felipe Cardeneti Mendes is an IT specialist with years of experience in distributed systems and open source technologies. He is a co-author of Database Performance at Scale and three Linux books. Felipe is also a frequent speaker at public events and conferences to promote open source technologies.

Guilherme da Silva Nogueira

Technical Director - ScyllaDB

Guilherme Nogueira is a former Solutions Architect turned Technical Director, focused on helping teams successfully run databases at scale. A longtime Linux gamer, he brings the curiosity and performance mindset from his hobby into his work. Passionate about open-source software and hardware, and loves pushing reliable, high-performance systems into real-world use-cases.

Guy Currier

Chief Analyst & Research Director - The Futurum Group

"Guy is responsible for positioning, go-to-market, and sales guidance across technologies and markets. He has decades of field experience describing technologies, their business and community value, and how they are evaluated and acquired. Guy’s specialty areas include AI, DevOps/cloud-native, enterprise applications, application integration, Big Data, governance-risk-compliance, containerization, virtualization, HPC, CPUs-GPUs-xPUs, and systems lifecycle management.

Guy started his technology career as a research director for technology media company Ziff Davis, with stints at PC Magazine, eWeek, and CIO Insight. Prior to joining Visible Impact, he worked at Dell, including postings in marketing, product, and technical marketing groups for a wide range of products, including engineered systems, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, and mission-critical cloud services. He lives and works in Austin, TX."