The “big data” revolution is upon us, fed by the need in both the public and private sectors to quickly analyze large datasets for important patterns and trends. With big data analysis, ecommerce ...

Big Data and in-memory computing have been around for years but are relatively new trends when compared to more traditional data-related technologies such as relational database management systems ...

Business analytics based on in-memory computing will continue to gain traction even as companies try to make sense--in real-time--of the ever-increasing volume of data generated, noted an analyst.

A shift to In-Memory Computing will allow Big Data analytics to sing. Think again about how IMC requires software reconfiguration . Reducing excess software code will accelerate performance.

It is only recently that the possibility of using memory for working space and primary data storage has become viable. The first in-memory database systems from the 1990s were not “big data” or ...

With the data cached in memory for instant access and with collocated computing on the cluster nodes, line-of-business applications, including consumer-facing websites and back-of­fice applications, ...

Traditionally, databases and big data software have been built mirroring the realities of hardware: memory is fast, transient and expensive, disk is slow, permanent and cheap. But as hardware is ...

IMC provides a different way to store and process data in RAM that is distributed across clusters of computers, the report explains. And in-memory computing platforms are becoming the “method of ...

Over at Datacenter Knowledge, Pat Buddenbaum from Intel writes that the newly announced Xeon E7 V2 processors are tailor-made for in-memory analytics. The new Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 product family ...

In-memory computing performs analytics in RAM rather than across processors, disks, and memory. The technology promises to help enterprises solve the growing challenge of managing — and ...

In-memory computing (IMC) is becoming a fixture in the data center, and Gartner predicts that by 2020, IMC will be incorporated into most mainstream products. One of the benefits of IMC is that it ...