Author: Mike Matchett

Revitalizing MySQL – Tokutek Open Sources TokuDB High Performance Engine

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

Many companies, startups and regular enterprises, have relied on MySQL over the years as a low cost (open source or supported versions) yet highly reliable relational database. Yet in these …

Exablox Brings It On – Enterprise Features for Everyone

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

Exablox announced their OneBlox storage system today which is sure to grab the attention of any non-storage expert who has ever struggled with more than one drive. What they’ve basically …

Extreme Enterprise Applications Drive Parallel File System Adoption

An IT industry analyst article published by Infostor.

By Mike Matchett, Sr. Analyst and Consultant,
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With the advent of big data and cloud-scale delivery, companies are racing to deploy cutting-edge services. “Extreme” applications like massive voice and image processing or …

Nothing’s Too Fast for Operational Intelligence – ScaleOut Software’s hServer

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

There are a lot of HPC technologies coming soon to a data center near you! The latest offering from ScaleOut Software, known for their in-memory data grid solutions, is …

Big Data for Business Analysts: How IT Can Deliver With Hadoop and Platfora

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

Today Platfora announced their first GA release of their in-memory BI platform built over Hadoop. If you’ve been thinking about how to leverage big data in your company – how …

Converged Infrastructure, or ‘Where Did All the Silos Go?’

An IT industry analyst article published by Virtualization Review.

Quite a few companies are mashing up server, storage, networking and even the hypervisor into turnkey solutions that can scale up or down as data center needs dictate.