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The Linked List: Friend or Foe?
John W. Verity   5/23/2013   Post a comment
A basic data structure, the linked list has come in for some tough questioning as a likely hindrance to system performance.
Database Machines Duke It Out
John W. Verity   5/22/2013   8 comments
New technical approaches to database management are spurring SAP and Oracle to take each other on in a momentous battle.
Getting CPU Clocks to Tick Faster
Jim O'Reilly   5/21/2013   11 comments
A variety of new chip technologies help processors go faster without burning up.
Windows & What Not to Do
Michael Joseph   5/20/2013   18 comments
Microsoft's operating system is deemed slower than Linux. Someone claiming to be an insider at the software company has offered some fascinating thoughts about why.
Kraken Gets Crackin'
John W. Verity   5/17/2013   15 comments
HP and SAP have shown a prototype database appliance that can harness as much as 12TB of DRAM.
The Kilo-Core Computer
John W. Verity   5/16/2013   19 comments
Dataflow architecture may be just the thing to help harness the power of future computers, each with 1,000 or more processors.
HPC Storage Scheme Targets Wall Street
Alan R. Earls   5/15/2013   13 comments
High-speed storage developed for use in scientific simulations is proving useful to financial traders, as well.
PunkSpider: Killing Security Bugs en Masse
John W. Verity   5/14/2013   21 comments
A new, open-source search engine continually scans the web's millions of domains and apps for security vulnerabilities.
Intel's Atom, Revisited
Jim O'Reilly   5/13/2013   31 comments
Intel has redesigned its low-power Atom processor line in hopes of winning market share in mobile devices and microservers in the datacenter.
Forgot Your Password? Talk to the Robot
John W. Verity   5/10/2013   49 comments
Can software that automatically fixes problems in IT infrastructure also serve end users looking for help with IT? A company called IPsoft believes so.
When the Cloud Falls Short
John W. Verity   5/9/2013   18 comments
A fast-growing site called Rap Genius claims to have been misled by its longtime cloud provider, Heroku.
Distributed Systems: A Good How-To
John W. Verity   5/8/2013   8 comments
There's most likely a distributed system in your future, so listen up as one expert describes how to plan, build, and operate such things.
KVM, the Other Hypervisor
Mary E. Shacklett   5/7/2013   20 comments
The kernel-based virtual machine available in Linux is proving itself as a high-performance alternative to other, better-known hypervisors.
APIs: Why & How to Manage Them
John W. Verity   5/6/2013   18 comments
Programming interfaces are increasingly vital to successful partnering and syndication of content and services, and that means they need careful management.
SQL Server Gains Speed With SSD
John W. Verity   5/3/2013   11 comments
An in-depth look at storage and performance in Microsoft's No. 1 DBMS finds much to praise in solid-state disk.
Enter the APU, a Real Speed Demon
Jim O'Reilly   5/2/2013   18 comments
A new processor chip, combining GPU and CPU, promises to boost computer performance to exceedingly high levels.
The New Thing in SSD: Express Bay
John W. Verity   5/1/2013   9 comments
A new interface will extend PCIe out to the front of servers to make SSDs as serviceable and hot-swappable as HDDs.
'The Internet' Doesn't Exist: New Book
John W. Verity   4/30/2013   24 comments
A book called To Save Everything Click Here has some interesting things to say about the Net and its many "solutionist" boosters.
Apple to Buy Intel? Dream On
John W. Verity   4/29/2013   41 comments
Apple could easily buy Intel, one former Apple executive reckons, and solve certain supply problems. But that wouldn't make much sense.
The Micro-Datacenter: Ready to Go
Jim O'Reilly   4/26/2013   34 comments
Pre-configured server racks, complete with software and power, can help enterprise IT managers get new apps to market in a snap.
The Bechtolsheim Factor: A New SSD?
John W. Verity   4/26/2013   18 comments
Some Silicon Valley luminaries are working in stealth on what could be a big leap forward in flash-based storage for enterprise computing.
Thanks for Sharing -- Data, That Is
John W. Verity   4/25/2013   17 comments
Schemes are afoot that would give different parts of the enterprise their own views into shared mountains of information.
Datacenter to Go, Hold the Mayo
Jim O'Reilly   4/24/2013   20 comments
The containerized approach to IT infrastructure offers many advantages, and it's fast going mainstream.
The Parallel Programming Problem
John W. Verity   4/23/2013   16 comments
The No. 1 problem facing the computer industry right now is how to write software that can take full advantage of multi-processor hardware architectures.
The Search for Flash's Replacement
Brian Coppa   4/22/2013   16 comments
A number of non-volatile memory technologies are vying to serve as successors to today's NAND flash memory.
Performance as Part of the Development Process
John W. Verity   4/22/2013   15 comments
If a system's performance is vital, then project teams need to be made conscious of that goal and managed appropriately.
The Build-It-Yourself Object Store
Jim O'Reilly   4/19/2013   24 comments
Amazon S3 has famously proven the technical merits of object storage, and now enterprises can build their own for not much cash.
The Promise of Analog Computing
John W. Verity   4/19/2013   21 comments
Hybrid computers, combining analog and digital circuits, might be just the thing for tackling certain computational challenges.
Tackling Inconsistency for Higher Performance
John W. Verity   4/18/2013   12 comments
Work is underway on methods to help large-scale IT systems better deal with contradictory data and thereby go faster than ever.
The Race Is On in High-End Unix Boxes
Robert Mullins   4/17/2013   15 comments
Oracle is gunning for IBM with a range of new SPARC-based processors and servers, descended from its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
Why SSD Calls for a New File System
John W. Verity   4/17/2013   9 comments
There's a serious mismatch, one technologist argues, between the characteristics of flash technology and today's HDD-centric enterprise file systems.
How Quantcast Is Boosting Hadoop's Performance
John W. Verity   4/16/2013   14 comments
The advent of greater network speed in the datacenter opens the door to redesigning key components of the Hadoop framework and achieving hefty speed-ups.
The Huge Carbon Footprint of Wireless Nets
John W. Verity   4/16/2013   28 comments
Wireless networks will consume many times more energy than all of the world's datacenters combined, new research shows.
Attack of the Super-Mega-Ultra GPUs
Jim O'Reilly   4/12/2013   37 comments
Graphics processing units are changing the face of high-performance computing in science and engineering – and in the enterprise, too.
Beware the Security Risks of SDN
Alan R. Earls   4/11/2013   16 comments
Software-defined networking holds great promise, but it has some inherent risks that need to be weighed.
End-to-End APM as a Service
Mary E. Shacklett   4/10/2013   19 comments
New services are available to help enterprises monitor their applications all the way from inside the datacenter to the far reaches of the Internet.
The Big-Data Challenge in Computer Security
Robert McGarvey   4/9/2013   38 comments
Big-data techniques look as if they might help with certain aspects of technology, but it's not an immediate win, experts say.
Cloud in a Box: Nebula's Appliance
John W. Verity   4/8/2013   16 comments
The newest way to build and run private computing clouds is with a specially-designed hardware controller.
Memory Cubes: Faster DRAM & Smaller, Too
Lamont Wood   4/5/2013   13 comments
The hybrid memory cube is slated to run circles around today's DDR3 modules, thus giving server performance a big boost.
Calling All Monkeys: A Netflix Contest
John W. Verity   4/4/2013   17 comments
The movie-streaming company has launched a contest soliciting contributions to its infrastructure-management platform.
Documentation: Still Vital After All These Years
Karl Hakkarainen   4/4/2013   16 comments
Nobody much likes writing documentation, only having written it.
SSD Bags a Whole Cloud Provider
John W. Verity   4/3/2013   21 comments
A Swiss-based provider of public cloud services says it is switching entirely to SSD for storing customers' data.
Using SSD to Replace Traditional RAID
Jim O'Reilly   4/3/2013   18 comments
The advent of super-fast SSD gives IT managers many new options for planning robust storage systems.
Speeding Up Browser Apps With SIMD
John W. Verity   4/2/2013   7 comments
It may soon be possible to play high-performance video games right inside a standard web browser program.
Here Comes the App-Defined Networking
Javier Juan   4/2/2013   10 comments
A new approach to networking enables applications automatically to call on the datacenter network and request services as needed.
Enterprise IT's 'Golden Age': Long Ago
John W. Verity   4/1/2013   21 comments
There was a time when enterprise IT departments were much more relaxed and in charge of their own fate than they are today.
How to Win at Performance Whack-a-Mole
Greg Schulz   4/1/2013   16 comments
Bottlenecks in IT systems are not always easy to nail. It takes a good understanding of systems and the right metrics.
A Poll: Are You Building Your Own?
John W. Verity   3/29/2013   14 comments
Our latest poll asks readers about possible plans to assemble servers and other IT infrastructure themselves.
Delay of the Land, or, Latency Be Gone!
Carrie Higbie   3/29/2013   16 comments
Latency has become the datacenter's latest bugaboo, but fortunately, a good deal is being done to tackle it.
HDD: Denser & Denser It Gets
Brian Coppa   3/28/2013   9 comments
The venerable hard drive looks like it will be enjoying significant increases in storage density, thanks to some fairly radical new designs.
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A basic data structure, the linked list has come in for some tough questioning as a likely hindrance to system performance.
New technical approaches to database management are spurring SAP and Oracle to take each other on in a momentous battle.
A variety of new chip technologies help processors go faster without burning up.
Microsoft's operating system is deemed slower than Linux. Someone claiming to be an insider at the software company has offered some fascinating thoughts about why.
HP and SAP have shown a prototype database appliance that can harness as much as 12TB of DRAM.
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