This document discusses Cassandra and the Datastax Academy. It provides examples of companies using Cassandra as infrastructure including ING, Netflix, Sony, and Microsoft. It also discusses the increasing SQL support in Cassandra, such as user defined functions, materialized views, and secondary indexes. The document notes that skills in Cassandra are in high demand but difficult to find. It promotes the Datastax Academy as a free solution to this problem, offering self-paced courses, instructor-led training, and O'Reilly certification to boost careers.