Much marketing hype and heated discussions should be seen as excellent indicators for the fact that Software Defined Storage (SDS) is one of the hottest topics in today’s data center. Naturally, every vendor defines SDS based on their own product range, sometimes leaving customer out of the equation.
Software Defined Storage: Why Customers Should Care – Part 1 of 2
Topics:
Application programming interface
Apache Hadoop
IT Management
Computer data storage
Systems Management
Quality of service
Flash
Management
SDS
Software Defined Storage
Torsten Volk
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Data Management: In-Memory Could Be the Mother of All Wisdom
As I review my series of #100linesOnBIDW blogs over the last couple of weeks, I found myself looking at the Data Management posting. I covered when to apply schemas, Big Data, and data governance. What I left out was technical implementation concepts for data management systems like row vs. column orientation; in-memory vs. spinning disk primary storage; and symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) vs. massively parallel processing (MPP). Processing and storage were the “developments” of 2012. I left 2013 for the “how to use” Data Management platforms.
Topics:
Data management
Big data
Business Intelligence
Computer data storage
Hardware
In-memory database
Database management system
John Myers
Solid-state drive
SSD
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