Keeping data in memory both speeds performance and can save power vs. accessing that data from HDDs.
That's significant because analyzing or manipulating data in memory is much faster than retrieving it from a hard disk.
ScaleOut can maintain applications and data in memory, up to a point.
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Ordinary databases and grid may be too slow, but ScaleOut Software stores data in memory on server farms or uses distributed caching on compute grids, to eliminate bottlenecks and reduce latency.
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Dr Douglas-Hamilton's collars, however, simply record their data in memory chips until those chips are prompted to regurgitate their contents to a receiver on board an aircraft that flies over the study area once every few months.
Secondly, Cisco Extended Memory technology allows each blade server in a cluster to support more than twice as much memory as a conventional two-socket server, which makes it easier to construct grids that process terabytes of data in memory.
The flash memory in the Fusion Drive moves data and applications frequently accessed by the user to the flash memory and move less frequently used data to the hard disk drive as the flash memory becomes full.
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An adaptive memory algorithm is used to move frequently retrieved data to the flash memory.
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We did some calculations on what would happen if you redesigned a data center with memory-based storage systems.
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Also at the Summit Viking Technology was showing their NV-DIMM technology that can be used for data in-memory applications.
So SAP engineers discovered how to store data in main memory, which is 10, 000 times faster than a disk.
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That way, if the power went away, the battery would have enough charge to write the data from the memory to some other more permanent location.
As an additional example, Bradford describes a hiring experience he went through at Fusion-io, the data center flash memory producer where he used to be CEO.
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Data fades from memory much more slowly when chips are cold which allowed them to grab the encryption keys and speed up unscrambling the contents of a phone.
But so will the addition of one megabyte of level 3 cache, as well as the Double Data Rate SDRAM memory with a 133-MHz system cache standard on all models.
In a different, though parallel, category, Allianz Group Chief Information Officer Ralf Schneider suggests 2012 will see strides in "in-memory data management, " which will pave the way for real-time enterprise computing.
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The idea was to create a way to Google your own data in main memory, to create much faster decision making cycle. 100, 000x faster than any other technology in the world, he says.
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"Transfer of data between different memory types has improved significantly in recent times, and will be further helped by the standards for hard drives which are currently being developed by the major manufacturers, " said Mr Larsson.
But he says that with the help of SAP data compression technology that crunches down data by 10-20x, you can now run the largest companies in the world with several years of transactional data in main memory.
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Using the HANA in-memory data engine, salespeople can use BusinessObjects Explorer to query and drill into 12 million active customer records and 700 million historical records in real-time, versus the 4-5 hours it used to take to run a report.
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In other words, instead of using memory as a temporary storage space for data retrieved from disk, memory can play a more primary role.
Write caching would store data to be written on the HDD in flash memory initially until enough data was in the flash cache to do an efficient write to the HDD disks.
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Crisp analytical skills and a razor-sharp memory for data distinguished many bosses of yesteryear.
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Management of memory card data can (thankfully) be handled on a PC or Mac using Content Manager Assistant, lest you worry that your data is trapped.
In a recent report by research firm IHS iSuppli, the sale of solid-state NAND flash drives are projected to increase by 400% in 2011 driven by increasing adoption of tablets which primarily use flash memory for data storage.
Telcos need the ability to analyze this big data quickly and effectively and are turning to the new analytics infrastructure with in-memory computing to crunch the data in seconds vs. days.
The payoff: Cutting out so much data enabled them to get rid of external depth memory as well as the bottlenecks caused by shuffling data between it and the graphics chip.
The advancement of technology, especially in the areas of big data, in-memory computing, the cloud, and mobile, further put the spotlight on analytics in the sports and entertainment industries.
We noted in May the availability of Panasonic 's SV-AV10--a small and sleek MP3 player and camcorder in one which stores data on tiny Secure Digital memory cards that certainly don't hold as much as a 20-gigabyte hard drive.
These approaches can combine a smaller SSD that stores the operating system and applications and a larger HDD that is used for user data, or a hybrid HDD that has flash memory inside a HDD that is used to store frequently accessed data on the flash with less used data kept available on the HDD.
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