This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer’s OnStrategies blog. Baer is a principal analyst covering Big Data at Ovum. Big Data is getting bigger, and Fast Data is getting faster because of the ...

Krishnan Subramanian and I were chatting over Skype yesterday. Krishnan is a well-known analyst and blogger. He asked a question about a post I wrote this week that looked at ten startups in the flash ...

As processor speeds increase, the need to reduce latency between the CPU and data becomes more pressing. The answer to that need has seen the rise of local flash storage and PCIe flash solutions. But ...

In-memory databases and grids have entered the enterprise mainstream. Today, new offerings are emerging in many forms—from extensions of relational database management systems to NoSQL databases to ...

A database that resides in RAM. An entire database is copied from storage to main memory and remains there for processing. Today's computers support terabytes of RAM, and because RAM is considerably ...

There are quite a few databases competing to be “king” of NoSQL. MongoDB claims to have the fastest-growing NoSQL database ecosystem, MarkLogic claims to be the only Enterprise NoSQL database, while ...

Every industry has its own set of milestones. These milestone events are considered more important than others due to their ability to significantly alter the course of the industry. It is said that ...

Processing power, networking and memory/storage are key ingredients in every computing architecture and they are key factors in running any application. In this piece we want to talk about the impact ...