Aerospike is pleased to announce the availability of our 4.5 release. Aerospike Enterprise Edition 4.5 is the first commercially available open database supporting new Intel Optane DC persistent memory (PM), based on Xpoint, a new class of storage technology architected specifically for data-intensive applications that require extremely low-latency, high durability, and strong data consistency. Aerospike’s …
GreyBeards Podcast Talk High Performance Databases
In this podcast episode, the GreyBeards On Storage podcast hosts discuss high performance databases and the storage needed to get there, with Brian Bulkowski, Founder and CTO of Aerospike. The full podcast covers: Database performance is all about the storage (or memory) Write IO performance Intel Optane memory Data consistency in databases The podcast runs ...
Don't Buy the Demo
In his article posted November 8 on Medium, John Dillon, Aerospike’s CEO, shares his thoughts on the importance of an iterative approach to data systems. He explains why buyers tend to be wooed by sexy demos of new software systems, but often wind up struggling very shortly thereafter.
Aerospike 4.4: Change Notification and Operational Improvements
Aerospike is pleased to announce the availability of our 4.4 release. The 4.4 release contains a number of operational improvements, and the major feature of Change Notification. Existing deployments should carefully read the operational improvements (listed below) – implementing them may save millions of dollars and result in vastly improved latency and reliability. Aerospike’s Change …
Retail/eCommerce Data Architectures Driven by the Amazon Effect
Amazon has been dominating with its scale of operations into every industry sector that it has been getting into. We call that “Amazonian effect” – these Amazonian effects have been brutal not just on brick-and-mortar retailers but also on online businesses as well.
Order of Magnitude
In his article posted October 30 on Medium, Brian Bulkowski, Aerospike’s Founder and CTO, shares his thoughts on what it means when engineers speak about ‘an order of magnitude’ and why business leaders should pay attention when they hear that phrase.
Trends in Ecommerce: Machine Learning Fueling Growth?
While Macy’s CEO Jeff Gennette says that his company’s ecommerce efforts require the same creativity and inspiration as given to Macy’s flagship store in New York City, they also require a much bigger commitment to something that could make or break the retailer’s future success: technology.
Fraud Prevention: Q&A with Forrester’s Andras Cser
In this post, Andras Cser, Vice President and Principal Analyst serving Security & Risk Professionals for Forrester Research, answers 5 questions regarding Fraud and Risk Management. He is a leading expert on identity management, access management, user account provisioning, entitlement management, federation, privileged identity management, and role design and management.
Digital Transformation and Effective Use of Data Should be a Boardroom Discussion. Here’s Why.
In an article posted October 2 on Medium, John Dillon, Aerospike’s CEO, shares his thoughts on Digital Transformation and the effective use of data today. Here are a few highlights from John’s article.
Amazon EC2 High Memory Instances: Helping Digital Data Architectures?
However, when one considers the Amazon application requirements, one needs to think about location of your data, your costs, and the restart experience and associated infrastructure. Overall, Amazon is increasing the awareness in this space, echoing where Aerospike has been playing these past several years.