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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

The pace of these changes has made it challenging for server-based infrastructures to manage fast-growing populations of users and data sources while maintaining fast response times. Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

The pace of these changes has made it challenging for server-based infrastructures to manage fast-growing populations of users and data sources while maintaining fast response times. Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT.

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SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

This effort resulted in: · Changes to the SQL Server Engine · Changes to the SQL Server Linux Host Extension · Validation with the Windows Storage team · Validation with Windows Hyper-V team · Validation with Windows Azure Storage team · Conversations with Red Hat, HP, SUSE and Intel · Changes in the Linux file system. O_NONBLOCK.

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