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Dateline: August 11, Austin Pervasive PSQL v11 MC Release Candidate is here. If you haven’t already downloaded the beta (and even if you have), you should definitely download PSQL v11 MC RC and give it a test. What started two years ago as a fairly quiet...
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Jim Ericson’s blog on (Really) Big Data perked our interests. In the industry of big data, we’re always curious to know what IS big data? It used to be terabytes, now it’s petabytes, and it’s exponentially growing. We agree with Jim, it’s not about how...
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Reuven Cohen ( http://bjac.it/brPe6V ) described this morning in a couple of paragraphs ( http://bjac.it/aSDu5x ) what I have been trying to explain for the last 18 months. The Pervasive DataCloud2 is not a competitor to other clouds or Platforms as a...
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Security spending in a downturn is under tight scrutiny. PricewaterhouseCoopers found this to be the case when it surveyed 7,200 executives in over 130 countries for its 2010 “Trial by Fire” report. One of the report’s primary findings states: Not surprisingly...
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The process of stellar discovery has long made its home at High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. HPC systems have evolved into clusters of "fat" multicore nodes. Applications must take advantage of parallelism across nodes and at the node...
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You probably understand that Pervasive DataRush is a fast processing engine and is great for data preparation, but did you know that the just released version 4.4 also includes an analytics platform? Pervasive DataRush for Analytics now allows users to...
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Date: June 2010 When new columns are added, they’re always placed at the end of the table. It’s possible to move existing columns within a table using an ALTER TABLE statement. For example, we can move the column that occupies the first position in a...
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Gordon Brown posted a blog on Redfin commenting on a presentation by Jeff Hammerbacher discussing the use of Hadoop at Facebook.Having solved many big data problems at Facebook, Jeff has great credibility in this area. Jeff discusses how Hadoop was used...
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If you ask anyone on the DataRush team, they could tell you more than you wanted to know about how we are an innovator in massively parallel processing. They could tell you about use cases and fast runtimes and how DataRush is the bees knees for data...
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Pervasive Software held its annual Metamorphosis event last week. That's where we ask 100 current customers to spend two days with 100 prospective customers. It's our concept of a "rush" for customers. We host a nice dinner, give them...
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For many medical tests, time is an inherent part of the equation. In most cases, medical results are delayed by compute time. A good example of this is genetic testing . Research finds that a patient’s genetics are an important factor in the efficacy...
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Once again David Linthicum has hit the nail on the head ! The issues organizations have with security in the cloud are not going to go away. Linthicum points to a recent Harris poll that says over 50% of those polled are concerned with security of data...
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Google recently introduced a service that allows devices connected to the cloud, to print via local printers also connected to the cloud. There were a couple of press releases, a few Blog posts, even a flow of Tweets that went out. It seemed like news...
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Working for Pervasive Software gives me insight into some of the large data problems that exist. I recently read this blog, “ Big Data, Big Problems ” from Gizmodo, that talks about the explosive collection of data that is collected on a daily basis from...
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And we’re not done yet—Pervasive DataRush is now approaching 2 Terabytes/Hour on a single server!! Pervasive® DataRush™ has again proved that you can rapidly process terabytes of data on a single server. Recent tests on an Intel Xeon 7500 processor-based...