Tag: Performance

January 16, 2018

Kinetica today announced at Tableau Conference 2017 the availability of innovations to the industry’s fastest GPU-accelerated database that deliver new geospatial capabilities and enterprise-grade features for better performance and user experience, as well as improved efficiency and utilization to drive […]

January 16, 2018

DBAs are increasingly being asked to manage not only larger numbers of database instances, but multiple database platforms as well. Cross-Platform database monitoring and management is no longer a trend, it’s a reality. But managing it all and addressing challenges […]

January 15, 2018

A new study conducted by Unisphere Research and sponsored by Quest Software examines the challenges being faced by database administrators (DBAs) and other data professionals who have long been the key guardians of companies’ critical data assets. DBAs’ primary responsibilities […]

January 15, 2018

There are many things to consider when capacity planning for SQL Server. Storage and disk capacity are apparent, but when you want to right-size your database(s) for a new SQL implementation or migration, there is a lot more to think […]

January 12, 2018

Data remains a foundational element of computing. Recently, Hadoop and big data have been a central part of data progression, allowing you to capture data at scale. But companies now look to the expanding use of cloud computing and machine […]

January 12, 2018

Database administration tasks can be time consuming so they require a comprehensive range of tools. Tasks can be error-prone, especially when they involve developing, testing, and maintaining custom scripts. It’s important to have the right tools for the job and […]

January 11, 2018

In the last few years, AI has made breathtaking strides driven by developments in machine learning, such as deep learning. Deep learning is part of the broader field of machine learning that is concerned with giving computers the ability to […]

January 11, 2018

Cybersecurity and terms written about it, such as “ransomware,” “malware,” and “hacker” have become part of our regular vocabulary. Concerns about protecting our identities and personal data are on the rise in our day-to-day lives. With the onslaught of news […]

January 9, 2018

Microsoft is lowering the cost of using its high-performance unlimited container option in the Azure Cosmos DB service. Cosmos DB, formerly called Azure DocumentDB, is the software giant’s globe-spanning distributed cloud database with NoSQL support. Users create fixed or unlimited […]

January 9, 2018

Catalogic Software today announced the release and general availability of DPX 4.5.1, the newest version of its data protection software that has been an industry leader in providing state-of-the-art data recovery while delivering unprecedented reliability and backup success rates for […]

January 8, 2018

The amount of new technologies in 2017 has been overwhelming: The cloud was adopted faster than analysts projected and brought several new tools with it; AI was introduced into just about all areas of our lives; IoT and edge computing […]

January 8, 2018

You might have gone into an alcohol-induced hibernation over the holidays, but cloud databases did not. More specifically, the cumbersomely named Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB did not, rocketing past AWS Redshift, as Begin founder Brian Leroux first noticed. While everything was “as you […]

January 5, 2018

Of the many use cases Python covers, data analytics has become perhaps the biggest and most significant. The Python ecosystem is loaded with libraries, tools, and applications that make the work of scientific computing and data analysis fast and convenient. […]

January 5, 2018

Constructing a modern database demands performance and ease of operations, both at scale. The performance aspect consists of two aspects: high-throughput and low-latency. While many businesses take a multi-tier application approach to meet throughput demands, they’re adding more latency with […]

January 4, 2018

An organized group of cybercriminals is currently targeting database services in a new botnet build-up that’s being leveraged for cryptocurrency mining, among other more traditional botnet attack patterns. Discovered by researchers with GuardiCore Labs, the so-called Hex-Men attacks have been […]

January 4, 2018

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache® Hadoop® v3.0.0, the latest version of the Open Source software framework for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. Over […]

January 3, 2018

As many enterprise applications mature, the increases in customers, functions, features and transaction rates require scaling up. Several alternatives for maintaining acceptable performance include installing or upgrading hardware resources such as CPU speeds, disk volume and computer memory. Of these, […]

January 3, 2018

Vena Solutions, the fastest growing provider of cloud-based corporate performance management (CPM) software, today announced Revenue Performance Management (RPM), a new, industry-first solution designed for SaaS and subscription-based businesses to better allocate resources and align departments to maximize revenues, profitability […]

January 3, 2018

SkyWalking’s proposal into the Incubator has been voted on and accepted by Apache Software Foundation(ASF) IPMC. SkyWalking is an APM (application performance monitor) tool, especially designed for microservices, cloud native and container-based architectures. SkyWalking’s underlying technology is a distributed tracing […]

January 2, 2018

Most any application needs some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside of the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly become a slow and unwieldy […]