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Alex Woodie
Alex Woodie has written about IT as a technology journalist for more than a decade. He brings extensive experience from the IBM midrange marketplace, including topics such as servers, ERP applications, programming, databases, security, high availability, storage, business intelligence, cloud, and mobile enablement. He resides in the San Diego area.
Unravelling Hadoop Performance Mysteries
November 20th, 2014
Despite the fact that it runs on plain vanilla X86 servers and 64-bit operating systems, Hadoop is a complex beast that's prone to bottlenecks and performance issues. Getting Hadoop to run well isn't easy and typically requires a lot ...
How Shutterstock Keeps Its Hyperscale Infrastructure In Check
September 9th, 2014
Since it was founded 11 years ago, Shutterstock has grown to become one of the largest image sharing marketplaces on the Internet. Managing that growth has not always been easy for the company, which runs its own IT infrastructure. ...
The Hyperscale Lessons Of Healthcare.gov
April 4th, 2014
The last six months have been a hair-graying experience for everybody involved in the Healthcare.gov rollout. While it ultimately managed to meet its goals and enroll 7.1 million people, the disastrous start and near implosion of the website behind ...
Flash Array Aimed At VDI Heals Other Hospital Applications
March 13th, 2014
When the folks at Shannon Medical Center decided to begin a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) project to eliminate traditional PCs, their research showed how critical I/O would be to the success of the project. But when the 400-bed hospital ...
The NoSQL Heart of Telco Messaging
January 15th, 2014
You probably haven't heard of Openwave Messaging. But if you get email, voice mail, or other messaging services from a tier-one telecommunications firm, chances are fairly good that you have used its white-label messaging products at some point. And ...
Amadeus Travel Goes Up Tempo with CouchbaseDB
November 21st, 2013
In the near future, if you search for a flight online, it’s likely that your query will run against Couchbase’s NoSQL database. That’s because Amadeus, the Spanish company that processes many of the world’s flight, hotel, and cruise ship ...
Dell Certifies QLogic Adapters for Converged Network Switch
September 20th, 2013
Dell has given its stamp of approval for a pair of QLogic adapters to be used in its converged S5000 networking switch, which is a key component of Dell’s strategy to enable data center operators to support data (TCP/IP) ...
Datacenters Wasting Cooling Capacity, Report Says
September 20th, 2013
In data centers, heat is an enemy that threatens to fry expensive electronics. However, a recent study suggests that many data centers are wasting a large portion of their cooling capability, which in turn means they are wasting tens ...
Violin Launches New Software as IPO Approaches
September 20th, 2013
Violin Memory, a developer of Flash memory-based storage systems, last week unveiled new software that aims to make it easier for organizations to move their legacy data to a tiered storage environment that utilizes a mix of traditional disk ...
Asetek Scores First Point With Liquid Cooling
September 20th, 2013
Asetek reports that it’s taken the first order for its RackCDU liquid cooling system. The order for five RackCDUs from an undisclosed OEM will be used to cool 280 compute nodes in an HPC cluster, the company reports. RackCDU ...
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