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Jeudi, 29 Décembre 2011 06:01

A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Dec. 29

A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Dec. 29

Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle, and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here.

SPOILER WARNING:
We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer. As such, if you want to figure it out all by yourself, DON’T READ THE COMMENTS!

Also, with the knowledge that because others may publish their answers before you do, if you want to...

Jeudi, 29 Décembre 2011 00:43

Say Hello to Memory. It's the New Hard Disk

Say Hello to Memory. It's the New Hard Disk

This is not the new hard disk. Photo: Flickr/Alpha Six

“Memory is the new disk,” Jim Gray liked to say.

The database pioneer died in 2007 after he was lost at sea, but like so much of the man, his words about memory and disk live on. Fred Holahan, the vice of president of marketing at VoltDB, uses those words in plugging his company — an outfit offering a database that stores all data in memory rather than on disk — and, yes, they describe a larger movement across the database business and beyond.

In addition to VoltDB — the latest venture from another well-known database pioneer, Mike...

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