July 31, 2023
Via: Caitlin SimmonsAugmented Reality (AR) is an innovative technology that creates a captivating and immersive experience for users. By overlaying virtual objects, sound, or sensory stimuli onto the real environment, AR revolutionizes how we interact with technology. For example, IKEA was one […]
January 7, 2019
Via: James HughesData centers all around the world are pushing the available technology to its limits, in the struggle to increase main memory capacity and bandwidth, while reducing latency. After several years of being relegated to small niches, it seems like nonvolatile […]
August 24, 2018
Via: TechSpotAs reported by Paul Thurrott, Intel “petitioned Microsoft heavily” to use its Pentium Gold CPU in the Surface Go instead of an ARM chip. Despite a new Snapdragon CPU likely offering longer battery life, Microsoft was probably aware of the […]
Performance, security, and availability
July 9, 2018
Via: Market WatchTech stocks rose in pace with the broader market Monday, ahead of what’s expected to be a relatively strong earnings season, but Morgan Stanley is starting to see leaks in the sector’s gas tank. Tech stocks on the S&P 500 […]
June 19, 2018
Via: StorageReviewToday Toshiba Memory America Inc. announced a new category of SAS SSDs that they expect to replace SATA SSDs in server applications. The new drive series, The RM5, is a 12Gbit/s value SAS (vSAS). These new drives offer higher capacity, […]
June 14, 2018
Via: TechradarFor PC Gaming Week 2018, we here at TechRadar are celebrating all the components that make the best gaming PCs even better. And, here we’ve gathered all the best CPU coolers you can buy in 2018. What’s cooler than being […]
Performance, security, and availability
May 25, 2018
Via: DataversityA recent press release reports, “McObject®, developer of eXtremeDB®, the ultra-efficient database system for real-time and historical data analysis, announced today it has set multiple STAC-M3™ benchmark records, running on E8 Storage, a pioneer in shared accelerated storage for data-intensive, […]
Online Tools, Performance, security, and availability
May 23, 2018
Via: DataversityArtificial Intelligence (AI) is having a clear impact on databases. Among the major players, Microsoft is applying AI to continuously monitor Azure SQL database workload patterns and apply automatic tuning when it recognizes opportunities to improve the database performance, for […]
May 3, 2018
Via: DataversityA recent press release reports, “Neo4j, the leading platform for connected data, today announced Neo4j 3.4, which includes horizontal scaling, performance improvements of more than 50 percent, 3D geospatial search, and numerous operational improvements. Delivering on the company’s vision to […]
April 13, 2018
Via: DataversityThis is the second part of an on-going series on NoSQL Databases, the first part was NoSQL Data Architecture & Data Governance: Everything You Need to Know. In that first part, I explained different NoSQL Database types and provided a […]
Performance, security, and availability
April 12, 2018
Via: DataversityAccording to a recent press release, “Teradata, the leading cloud-based data and analytics company, today announced the availability of ‘4D Analytics,’ a new capability in advanced analytics that combines 3-dimensional geospatial location data with the 4th dimension of time. This […]
April 10, 2018
Via: Info World DatabaseYou may not have heard of OpenSCG, but Amazon Web Services has. A week ago, AWS quietly acquired the PostgreSQL migration services company founded by PostgreSQL veteran Denis Lussier. While some PostgreSQL fans weren’t happy about the move, the OpenSCG […]
Application areas, Finance, Other
April 5, 2018
Via: Market Watch - Financial ServicesThe seemingly unending growth of the ETF industry has hit a snag over the past two months, as turmoil in the U.S. stock market—the most popular area that ETFs offer exposure to—pushed investors to reallocate. Exchange-traded funds had negative flows […]
April 4, 2018
Via: Info WorldDoing performance tuning on distributed systems is no joking matter. It’s much more complicated than on a single node server, and bottlenecks can pop up anywhere, from system resources in a single node or subcomponent, to cooperation between nodes, to […]
April 4, 2018
Via: DataversityDataStax, a leading provider of the always-on data layer for the Right-Now Enterprise, today announced the immediate availability of DataStax Managed Cloud on Microsoft Azure. DataStax Managed Cloud, a fully managed, white-glove service, on Azure eliminates the operational data management […]
April 3, 2018
Via: Database JournalThere are various methods to monitor query performance in SQL Server. One of the best ways is to analyze the query execution plan and identify the queries that can cause performance bottlenecks. Sometimes, query execution plans get changed during the […]
Performance, security, and availability
April 3, 2018
Via: DataversityRegardless of computing environment, workload, or OS, availability is an essential part of operational success. Outages, system or application failures, and unplanned downtime are simply not acceptable for today’s pace of business in which even 10 minutes of inoperability translates […]
April 2, 2018
Via: Info WorldDespite being filled with Oracle veterans, Salesforce.com can’t seem to stop flirting with rival databases, with reports surfacing that the SaaS vendor has made “significant progress” to move away from Oracle with its own homegrown database. This comes on the […]
April 2, 2018
Via: Info WorldIf you do business around the world, you may need a scalable, distributed, global database. You have several choices including Google Cloud Spanner, the open source CockroachDB, the graph database Neo4j, and the subject of this review, Azure Cosmos DB. […]
Performance, security, and availability
March 30, 2018
Via: Database JournalWhen using Transparent Data Encryption, you might wonder “What is the state of my transparent data encrypted database?” There are many different states that a transparent data encrypted database might go through. Those states go from not being encrypted to […]