A Big Data Thanksgiving
Looking at Thanksgiving through a magnifying glass might tell you a lot about how our modern lives, and holidays, are data driven.
November 25, 2015 • 3 min read Data
SQL Server Columnstore Index Performance: Intro and Demo
Columnstore indexes are a powerful memory-optimized column-oriented index intended for data warehouse workloads—but far too few architects know about them or their benefits. Columnstore indexes routinely improve performance by 10x, 100x (such as in the demo below), and even 1,000x—rendering results in seconds that classic row store data structures required minutes to satisfy. Microsoft recommends […]
August 7, 2015 • 4 min read Data
How Data Changed Cycling
Data has revolutionized cycling. It is helping pros and amateurs improve performance, build communities, and increase rider safety.
July 26, 2021 • 5 min read Data
Anshuman Singh: Unruly Curiosity
As a child, Anshuman Singh's curiosity nearly cost him his life. But once he could channel it, he became a remarkable engineer.
February 7, 2022 • 5 min read People
An Industry Disrupted: The Changing Automotive Ecosystem
There’s no question the automotive industry is changing as we speak. These changes will impact how we’ll travel, how we’ll use our cars, what new services will be offered, and which players will make up the evolving automotive ecosystem. There’s already been disruption in the broader transportation industry. Ride-sharing services have devastated the taxi industry […]
July 16, 2018 • 6 min read Data
Big Data and Precision Medicine – Can We Quantify Human Health?
Will Big Data pave a new path to healthcare? We gathered the latest discussions on big data, precision medicine, and the dramatic changes in technology powering bioinformatics and healthcare.
June 7, 2017 • 2 min read Data
Accelerate Containerized Databases with Western Digital® SSDs and Red Hat® CNS
Software may have eaten the world but, thanks to DevOps’ focus on scalability and need for continuous deployment, containers are taking a bite of that software dominance. Containers are a way of packaging applications, or even individual services, in a way that makes them fast and easy to deploy for developers, while at the same […]
August 16, 2018 • 3 min read Data
Big Data Solutions
Learn about storage architectures that are solutions for the challenges of data at scale, including Ultrastar hard drives and OpenFlex NVMe-oF platforms.
April 9, 2020 • 2 min read Data
Looking for Love in All the Online Places
For Valentine’s Day, we’re taking a look at the question on the minds of at least a million single folks around the world: Can data help me find love? Online dating websites have monetized the idea of finding true love for over 15 years now, and some of them have been very successful – financially […]
February 13, 2018 • 3 min read Data
Top 3 Reasons to Pay Closer Attention to Storage Enclosures
Why are storage enclosures so important? Here are the top 3 reasons to pay closer attention.
July 2, 2019 • 4 min read Data