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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

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Strategic IT Does More than Assume Technology Risk, it Mitigates Business Risk

The Agile Manager

Thus leadership and its derivative characteristics - notably innovation and responsiveness - are the result of calculated, not wanton, risk taking. They compete on cost (through, for example, labour arbitrage or volume discounts) as opposed to differentiation on value (that is, as drivers of innovation or invention.)

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. In 2007, businesses had started to become more distributed; customers were using multiple devices to access their files and there was a need to make this experience as smooth as possible.