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Aerospike Beats Out Cassandra, Couchbase + MongoDB : Handles Node Failure Like a Champ
Aerospike, a NoSQL database provider, has just earned some more bragging rights. Thumbtack released a new report today titled “Failover Characteristics of Several Leading NoSQL Databases”. The paper is the follow-up to a January benchmark that found Aerospike’s offering performs up to 10 times better than competing solutions. This latest study compares how Cassandra, Couchbase, ...
Moonshot Could Pave the Way for HP’s Hyperscale Takeover
Last month Hewlett-Packard started shipping its extreme low-energy (ETE) server for hyperscale environments. The box, the first of several models, is the product of a multi-year development effort dubbed Project Moonshot. HP launched the initiative in late 2011, which is presumably when management realized that it has to counterbalance the shrinking demand for PCs and ...
Cloud Review: Amazon and its Competition
This past week both Amazon and its rivals announced major product updates. The public cloud provider is tweaking its portfolio in order to increase its presence in the enterprise market, while competing vendors are doing everything they can to make sure that they won’t get stomped on in the process. Amazon launched a new security ...
Facebook’s Q&A Project Could be Bad News for Reddit, Quora
Last week Facebook rolled out threaded comments, a work-in-progress feature that lets you respond to comments directly. This much-needed addition ensures that replies reach the intended recipient instead of getting lost in the comment chain, an obstacle that made it fairly difficult to participate in conversations prior to the launch. Here with his analysis on ...
The Secret Sauce Behind Fusion-io’s Latest Benchmark? Software [VIDEO]
Fusion-io recently published a report that showed its flash cards can deliver a record-breaking 9.6 million I/O per second. Wikibon co-founder and CTO David Floyer discussed the benchmark and the secret sauce behind the firm’s latest technical achievement on the SiliconAngle NewsDesk show (full video below). Floyer elaborates on the fact that Fusion-io recorded 9.6 million ...
What You Missed in Big Data : Hadoop Startups Make Strides
This past week in Big Data: Rackspace picked up a NoSQL startup, Platfora released its flagship product, and MapR announced two major updates that got the open-source community excited. On Thursday Rackspace disclosed that it acquired Exceptional Cloud Services, an emerging Redis solutions provider from the Bay Area. Terms of the deal were disclosed but ...
The 3 New Buckets of the Real-Time Big Data Stack : Query, Insight + Action
What’s the intersection between the Big Data stack and real-time capabilities? The convergence is long overdue, says Trestata founder Abhishek Mehta, who discusses the market juncture on a recent NewsDesk segment (full video below). Mehta first describes how real-time analytics gradually transformed from a nice-to-have to a must-have in the past 12 months. “The capabilities you ...
Will Amazon Eat Up Enterprise Infrastructure? Find Out at Next Month’s Peer Incite
Amazon’s moving in on the enterprise datacenter with some compelling developments and a burgeoning product line up. To really drill down on what this means for Amazon, its market position and the state of the industry, make time for Wikibon’s next Peer Incite, scheduled for Thursday, April 23. Jason Mendenhall, the executive vice president of cloud for co-location ...
The Cloud War Rages On: How Amazon is Changing the Industry
Amazon’s successful expansion into the traditional enterprise market has triggered a massive response from the data center vendors that once monopolized this space. Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante discussed how this competition is driving new trends on yesterday’s NewsDesk segment with Kristin Feledy (full video below). Vellante starts by saying that Amazon has come ...
NetApp and Equinix, Unveil Private Cloud Solution for AWS
Amazon is putting the heat on traditional data center vendors with its quest to becoming a force to be reckoned with in the enterprise IT market. In view of the company’s success in accomplishing this goal, NetApp has adopted a new strategy: if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. The storage vendor announced a new ...