There’s no question: In today’s on-demand economy, customers must have consistent, accurate data access no matter where they are located. Systems need to respond within milliseconds with no downtime, ever.

Five years after co-founding NuoDB and growing the business, Barry Morris is taking on the role of executive chairman. Bob Walmsley, former executive vice president of Sales and Services, is the new president and CEO of NuoDB. In this discussion with Parna Sarkar-Basu, Bob shares his plans and priorities to drive growth and enhance customer success.

Deploying databases in the cloud is becoming more difficult as time goes by. Not that the technical hurdles are getting higher – indeed, technology is actually making it easier than ever – but the job of convincing the front office that this is a good way to manage precious data is getting to be a challenge.

To date, most cloud deployments have consisted of fairly low-priority data and applications. But increasingly the cloud is taking on mission-critical functions, and this trend will only