In-Memory Computing Planet® Blogs and Events

Our new database-as-a-service offering, MemSQL Helios, was relatively easy to create – and will be easier to maintain – thanks to Kubernetes. The cloud-native container management software has been updated to more fully support stateful applications. This has made it particularly useful for creating and deploying MemSQL Helios, as we describe here. From Cloud-Native to Cloud Service MemSQL is a distributed, cloud-native SQL database that provides in-memory rowstore and on-disk columnstore to meet the needs of transactional and analytic workloads. MemSQL was designed to be run in the cloud from the start. More than half of our customers run MemSQL …

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A conversation with Michael Nordquist, Intel’s director of strategic planning and architecture in the Business Client Group and Ben Murphy, global director of product integrations, from Lakeside Software. Lakeside Software helps organizations reduce costs and improve end-user productivity by providing visibility into IT environments with digital experience monitoring. Their solution, SysTrack, does this for more ...continue reading Q&A: Modern manageability for the data-centric era—on premises and on cloud

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The ongoing partnership between Microsoft and Intel was on full display at Microsoft Ignite 2019 in Orlando, with product and service innovations that will propel today’s businesses. I’d like to call out three news items in my area of expertise, Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory. Combine cloud computing with in-memory analytics and you get one ...continue reading Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory Lifts Off at Microsoft Ignite

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We are excited to announce that Hazelcast in-memory technologies are now available for sale from IBM with the IBM Cloud Pak™ for Applications. The Hazelcast in-memory computing platform is an ultra-fast processing architecture for mission-critical applications where microseconds matter. The world’s most data-centric companies complement their systems of record, such as databases, with in-memory solutions […]

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We’re very excited to announce the integration of Kinetica and RAPIDS!

Customers have been using the Kinetica Active Analytics Platform to do large-scale data preparation, as well as model inferencing and audit (square & circle, below).

With the integration with …

It is my pleasure to announce that after 6 years a new major version of Hazelcast has been released! This new release brings a breath of fresh air into Hazelcast while also being more robust than ever. We did try to keep enough familiarity to not surprise our users too much, but we also invested […]

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If you had a choice of processing data in-memory versus not in-memory, all other things being equal, wouldn’t you always choose in-memory? You might not need the higher performance, but if it were available to you, you’d take it because faster is always better than slower, right? It would be wonderful if we lived in […]

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If you’re keeping up with data trends, you’ve heard about “the edge.” Recently, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke about why he sees edge computing as the future of the business. It’s clear that the industry is abuzz with the promise of edge, but the movement of compute resources away from a centralized data center and ...continue reading Intel to Work with Microsoft for Enterprise Edge

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An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations Ren et al., SOSP’19 I was drawn in by the headline results here: This paper presents an analysis of how Linux’s performance has evolved over the past seven years… To our surprise, the study shows that the performance of many core operations has worsened or fluctuated … Continue reading An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations

I recently saw that Pirelli Tires is celebrating the 25th anniversary of their slogan “Power is nothing without control”, and while I was shocked it was that old, I realized that they could use it for so long because of one simple fact – it’s true! We live in a time where everything has to ...continue reading How Do You Control All That Power?

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Optimized risk scores Ustun & Rudin, KDD’17 On Monday we looked at the case for interpretable models, and in Wednesday’s edition of The Morning Paper we looked at CORELS which produces provably optimal rule lists for categorical assessments. Today we’ll be looking at RiskSLIM, which produces risk score models together with a proof of optimality. … Continue reading Optimized risk scores

SME Solutions Group helps institutions manage risks and improve operations, and they’ve chosen MemSQL as a database partner. Their premier services include data analytics and business intelligence (BI) tools integration, areas where MemSQL adds tremendous value. In this webinar, SME Solutions Group describes how they use MemSQL to solve a wide range of problems, including big data and fast data needs for utilities. How MemSQL Fits SME Mike Czabator, a systems engineer with MemSQL, describes MemSQL as a fully relational, fully distributed, memory-first database. It loads data live; scales out to support arbitrarily large numbers of ad hoc SQL queries, …

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When my girls were young, we read Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. The one scene that sticks in my mind is the Red Queen, telling Alice: “… it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as ...continue reading Is the “Red Queen” Running Your Business?

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Today, I am happy to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Spain in late 2022 or early 2023! I'm excited by the opportunities the availability of hyper scale infrastructure will bring to Spanish organizations of all sizes. When the AWS Europe (Spain) Region is launched, developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations will be able to run their applications and serve end users across the region from data centers located in Spain.

Currently, AWS provides 69 Availability Zones across 22 infrastructure regions worldwide, with announced plans for thirteen more Availability Zones and four more Regions in Indonesia, Italy, South Africa, and Spain in the next few years. The new AWS Europe (Spain)Region will consist of three Availability Zones (AZs) at launch, and will be AWS's seventh region in Europe, joining existing regions in Dublin, Frankfurt, London…

Today, Intel takes another step forward in data center security with the general availability of Intel® Xeon E-2200 processors. Already popular for small-medium business deployments, Intel Xeon E processors are also driving enhanced security usages with the additional layer of hardware-based security and manageability made possible by Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX). One of ...continue reading Intel SGX Evolves for Data Center

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