AI
Databricks Is Going To Be The Next Platform For Many Enterprises
The hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers control the design and manufacturing of own AI infrastructure. …
in-memory
Store
Apache Druid Takes Its Place In The Pantheon Of Databases
A decade ago, Fangjin “FJ” Yang was a software architect at startup Metamarkets, a company that was building a user-facing analytics engine that a lot of developers simultaneously could go to, click on a UI, and very quickly get answers to their questions. …
Store
Storage Pioneer on What the Future Holds for In-Memory AI
To catch a glimpse of the future of what memory devices and approaches will dominate the AI-centric datacenter, there are few better forecasters than Evangelos Eleftheriou. …
Enterprise
The Cloudy Future Of SAP HANA
Store
Thanks For The Memories
It is probably a myth that Bill Gates said “640 KB ought to be enough,” and whether or not he said it the truth is that it has never been enough. …
AI
HPE Expands HPC Reach With SGI Buy
Supercomputer maker SGI has been going it alone in the upper echelons of the computing arena for decades and has brought much innovation to bear on some of the most intractable simulation, modeling, and analytics problems in the world. …
Compute
Cisco Connects With SGI For Big NUMA Iron
When supercomputer maker SGI tweaked its NUMA server technology to try to pursue sales in the datacenter, the plan was not to go it alone but rather to partner with the makers of workhorse Xeon servers that did not – and would not – make their own big iron but who nonetheless want to sell high-end machines to their customers. …
Compute
In-Memory Breathes New Life Into NUMA
Hyperscalers and the academics that often do work with them have invented a slew of distributed computing methods and frameworks to get around the problem of scaling up shared memory systems based on symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) or non-uniform memory access (NUMA) techniques that have been in the systems market for decades. …
AI
Google Pits Dataflow Against Spark
It is almost without question that search engine giant Google has the most sophisticated and scalable data analytics platform on the planet. …
Enterprise
The Myth Of In-Memory Computing
These days when you talk to people in the tech industry, you will get the idea that in-memory computing solves everything. …