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Vertica brings higher speeds to ad hoc queries

Vertica brings higher speeds to ad hoc queriesSybase Lawsuit Against VerticaSybase has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Vertica. Sybase's patent on the "organization of the columnar structure to support decision support systems" is 10 years old and is in force until 2018. The lawsuit was filed in...

Tags: Databases, Tools & Techniques, Vertica, Sybase Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-10

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Gathering clouds brew up a storm

With all kinds of cloud announcements promised at Microsoft PDC next week, rival vendors Amazon and Rackspace have tried to steal a little early thunder with some announcements of their own. This is the beginning of a titanic struggle to establish the top cloud providers, and this week's announcements have...

Tags: Rackspace, Web Hosting, It Services, Servers, Internet, Hardware, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-10-25

The CIO's innovation dilemma

The often uncomfortable relationship between IT and business is nothing new but has taken on fresh piquancy. The visibility achieved by the impact coming from the use of socialprise I have seen among major brands fuels that debate. There is a history here and I sense that...

Tags: Information Technology, Ross, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-03-25

H-Store: Complete destruction of the old DBMS order?

Guest Post: Curt Monash reports from the front lines of a database revolution. Mike Stonebraker created much of the database management industry. Now he wants to blow it up. Via a project called H-Store [pdf file], he proposes to manage high-end OLTP databases entirely in...

Tags: Disk, DBMS, Brown University, OLTP, RAM, H-Store, I-Store, H-Store Team, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Curt Monash

Blog posts 2008-02-20

News to know: Vista SP1 benchmarks; HP; Wireless price wars; Apple; Yahoo

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Another take on Vista vs. XP benchmarks Larry Dignan: HP: No tech slowdown here AT&T matches Verizon: Welcome to the wireless price wars Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft suspends distribution of Vista SP1 prerequisite update ...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., HD-DVD, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Malware, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Toshiba Corp., Wireless, Hd Dvd, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), DVD, Consumer Electronics, Viruses And Worms, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Security, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Blog posts 2008-02-20

Vertica brings higher speeds to ad hoc queries

Michael Stonebraker has a history of database breakthroughs. He was a founder of Ingres, Illustra, Cohera and StreamBase Systems. He also served as CTO of Informix and helped develop Postgres. His most recent creation is Vertica, which just launched version 2.o of its database. The claims...

Tags: Michael Stonebraker, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-02-19

Adobe Acrobat enters third dimension

Adobe Acrobat enters third dimensionI *hate* "vertical" marketsA "vertical" market is one where there is almost no competition, and they can get away with charging ridiculous prices - you know you're looking at software designed for a "vertical" market when the software costs more than a computer."Vertica" markets are anti-competitive...

Tags: CAD, Bentley MicroStation, 3D, Adobe Systems Inc., third dimension, Adobe Acrobat, software, Adobe PDF

Discussion threads 2006-01-23