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Replacing Traditional Storage, Databases With In-Memory Analytics 124

Posted by Soulskill from the neuralization-of-data-centers dept.
storagedude writes "Traditional databases and storage networks, even those sporting high-speed solid state drives, don't offer enough performance for the real-time analytics craze sweeping corporations, giving rise to in-memory analytics, or data mining performed in memory without the limitations of the traditional data path. The end result could be that storage and databases get pushed to the periphery of data centers and in-memory analytics becomes the new critical IT infrastructure. From the article: 'With big vendors like Microsoft and SAP buying into in-memory analytics to solve Big Data challenges, the big question for IT is what this trend will mean for the traditional data center infrastructure. Will storage, even flash drives, be needed in the future, given the requirement for real-time data analysis and current trends in design for real-time data analytics? Or will storage move from the heart of data centers and become merely a means of backup and recovery for critical real-time apps?'"

Comment Re:Can I pick two options? (Score 1) 469

by convolvatron (#34414344) Attached to: WikiLeaks Should...

no, this is wrong. having spent most of my life against the secret world, almost all of it is more convenient to classify than to make any kind of informed decision about what really needs to

at a tremendous cost.

its difficult to understand why you would assume that most classified material would be worth reading by anyone at all.

Comment Re:Why not show hubris? (Score 1) 311

by convolvatron (#33549698) Attached to: Microsoft Holds iPhone Funeral Event

i worked for a startup and the CEO insisted on having some kind of ceremony in the parking
lot where...i think we burned some of their marketing t-shirts of our huge 'competitor' that
we were going to present a serious challenge to.

6 months later, they had shipped their own technically superior version of our product, and ran
it on all their existing platforms. they didn't even bother buying us, we just disappeared from
memory

does anyone know which startup i'm referring to? or is it really all of them

Comment why not (Score 2, Interesting) 462

by convolvatron (#33409476) Attached to: What 'IT' Stuff Should We Teach Ninth-Graders?

teach them some fundamentals...what is a bit, what is a tube, how the tubes get plugged together,
maybe how dns works at a high level just to give them some example of a simple distributed system,
and give some meaning to web addresses.

what a trivial von-neumann machine looks like

what a program is at a high level, how images are represented and manipulated.

how to write a simple game in something like scratch.

what you describe seems pretty tortuous for a 9th grader (learning gimp, ooo), even for one that
has an interest

actually give them some semantic reference for dealing with computers, rather than teaching them
about the details of the current crop of open source menu-driven applications

Comment preferred? (Score 1) 1

by convolvatron (#33217780) Attached to: Netflix deal expands instant watch catalog

not really. sitting at home looking through an extensive catalog is about the same
as driving 10 miles to my local strip mall, and spending 30 minutes in an
overly lit blockbuster outlet listening to advertisements while i consider the 4 new releases
and the same 500 titles that i've been looking at for the last two years while trying
not be be too annoyed at someone else's unrly children.

and i really dont mind taking the same trip the next day just to drop the thing
off, it gives me a sense of importance.

Comment implemented (Score 2, Insightful) 216

by convolvatron (#32329742) Attached to: IT Infrastructure As a House of Cards

i guess its ok that the sysadminds coopted the work 'implemented' where one would normally
say 'installed'

but that kind of leaves the actual implementors without a word now

and in this particular usage, its kind of odd, because usually the best time to
find and fix these problems is exactly when its being implemented, rather than
when its being installed
Input Devices

New I/O Standard Bids To Replace Mini PCI Express 31

Posted by kdawson from the lame-name dept.
DeviceGuru writes "LinuxDevices reports that a group of companies today unveiled — and demonstrated products based on — a tiny new PCI Express expansion standard. Although it's somewhat larger than the PCI Express Mini Card, the tiny new 43mm x 65mm FeaturePak card's high density 230-pin edgecard connector provides twice the number of PCI Express and USB 2.0 channels to the host computer, plus 100 lines dedicated to general purpose I/O, of which 34 signal pairs are implemented with enhanced isolation for use in applications such as gigabit Ethernet or high-precision analog I/O. While FeaturePaks will certainly be used in all sorts of embedded devices (medical instruments, test equipment, etc.), the tiny cards could also be used for developing configurable consumer devices, for example to add an embedded firewall/router or security processor to laptop or notebook computers, or for modular functionality in TV set-top-boxes and Internet edge devices." The president of Diamond Systems, which invented the new card, said "Following the FeaturePak initiative's initial launch, we intend to turn the FeaturePak specification, trademark, and logo over to a suitable standards organization so it can become an industry-wide, open-architecture, embedded standard" (but to use the logo you have to join the organization).

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