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.
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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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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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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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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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.
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.
This model is driving the growth of digital storage in data centers and thus the sale of hard disk drives, tape storage and flash memory used in enterprise storage tiers for these data centers.
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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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PhD student Tilo Muller told the BBC that the attack generally gave them access to data that had been put in memory as users browsed websites, sent messages or shared pictures.
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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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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If desktop computers and terminals proliferate in hotel rooms and other locales, Dulaney thinks users could more easily carry personal data files and applications around in tiny memory cards that just plug into any available desktop system.
It pulls that data down from a speedy SAP Hana in-memory database.
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The top layer is a 48 GB cache for organizing the writing of data for better utilization of the flash memory in the other layers.
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To gain maximum value, data needs to be potentially pre-processed in memory, and then stashed away for further analysis including trending and comparing over time.
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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.
Using a combination of HDD and flash memory in either a hybrid HDD or a dual storage notebook computer, where frequently used data (and possibly the operating system and application software) is kept in the flash memory, while the bulk of user content is kept on the HDD, has been shown to provide about 80% of the performance improvements of a pure SSD-based computer.
It's actually better, he says, because, if you back up your data in enough places, this digitized "e-memory" never forgets.
Data needed by VM applications is cached in the flash memory.
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For the hardware geeks out there, here's the reference design, which seems to indicate some future models "could" support removable memory for loading in and getting data off of PMCs.
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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.
The devices communicate via Bluetooth, but they also have a built-in memory capable of storing hours worth of data.
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust has been found in breach of data protection after a doctor lost a memory stick on a train.
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