Guests were invited to an exclusive executive dinner to discuss best practices for modernising their data architectures and tackling data challenges for cloud adoption.

Meeting with other Senior Leaders, to discuss this essential topic, share experiences, gain knowledge and learn from other leaders; this luxury drinks reception and executive dinner, took place at the world renowned and award-winning Corrigan’s Mayfair.

Corrigan’s is home to acclaimed celebrity Irish chef, Richard Corrigan. Opening in 2008. It has been awarded London Restaurant of the Year by the Evening Standard and had three AA Rosettes within the first three months. It has also received the ‘AA London Restaurant of the Year’ amongst other accolades. Making it an evening of gastronomic delights!

Many businesses are facing pressure to modernise their applications and adopt advanced technologies, such as IoT, to meet the changing needs of their customers and remain competitive in the market.

Legacy databases can be expensive to maintain, whilst being unable to keep up with the challenges in meeting the 1) performance 2) scalability 3) agility 4) affordability requirements of their applications.

There is need to transition off mainframe and legacy systems, which is costing them money and preventing them from accelerating their critical business initiatives.

Mainframe and legacy databases remain critical for many organisations. At the same time, teams are under pressure to build modern applications and IoT solutions on top of these steadfast yet inflexible systems.

Full replacement is not always an option, so how are companies solving this dilemma and what sacrifices have to be made?

Joining Couchbase, leader of the modern cloud-native distributed database for enterprise applications, were a range of leading UK companies. During this executive event guests discussed all things cloud with real-life examples from Sky, Centrica, Tesco, and more, customer stories.

The roundtable discussion format made it the perfect platform for senior executives, to gain insights into the latest trends and best practices for modernising their data architectures and adopting cloud technologies.

By participating in the dinner attendees