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Why We Need A Data-Centric OS For AI

May 27, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

It is a pretty bold claim for anyone to call themselves the creator of the operating system for AI. …

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Vast Data Builds Out Data Platform With Block Storage And Kafka Streams

February 21, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Vast Data Builds Out Data Platform With Block Storage And Kafka Streams

If you are going to be audacious enough to call the thing you are creating Universal Storage, then by definition it has to do everything – meaning support every kind of data format and access protocol, and do so with good performance on all fronts. …

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Oracle Revs Up Exadata Database Machines To X11M

January 10, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

Transaction processing against relational databases may not be the focus of the datacenter, as it was when IBM created the first relational database and Oracle was founded to compete against it in the late 1970s. …

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Databricks Is Going To Be The Next Platform For Many Enterprises

December 18, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

The hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers control the design and manufacturing of own AI infrastructure. …

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Oracle Puts AI, Automation Between Its Cloud And the Bad Guys

September 13, 2024 Jeffrey Burt Comments Off on Oracle Puts AI, Automation Between Its Cloud And the Bad Guys

Despite a slow start several years ago, Oracle has refashioned itself into a cloud builder, rapidly expanding its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to make it among the top second-tier providers, although still well behind the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. …

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Oracle Runs OCI Clones At Rival AWS, Google, And Azure Clouds

September 10, 2024 Jeffrey Burt 1

It’s a multi-cloud world and one with a cloud infrastructure services market that is dominated by three large players. …

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Oracle Goes Massively Parallel, Low Cost With Exadata Exascale

July 16, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 8

Maybe, if you need blazing performance extracting data and chewing on it from a relational database, it belongs in a cloud. …

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The Cloud Outgrows Linux, And Sparks A New Operating System

March 12, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 44

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there are really only a handful of commercially viable operating systems. …

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Couchbase Joins The Vector Search In Database Fray

March 8, 2024 Jeffrey Burt 1

As we have noted before, vector databases aren’t new even though people talk about them that way, and in fact can trace their origins back a few decades. …

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The Vast Potential For Storage In A Compute Crazed AI World

December 13, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

When it comes to funding rounds for high tech companies, the alphabet usually runs out somewhere around Series E. …

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