Excellent in their own way, relational databases were created to handle data that could be easily decomposed into simple elements. Objects are not simple elements, leaving a mismatch that is hard to handle.
The Symmetrix DMX, as EMC calls it, was designed to handle the data storage needs of large companies and their computer networks, granting those companies access to data more quickly than previous Symmetrix products as well as those from EMC's...
Web services is considered an important driver in the adoption of services-oriented architectures, a technique for designing corporate computer systems. The rise of web services will force computer-services companies to dramatically scale back...
Another challenge the group will tackle will be to handle mobile phone "baseband" processors, the part of the chip that deals with radio communication tasks. But what makes power management hard to handle is that processor makers are all using...
It is designing its product to appeal to developers, who can take the software and embed data analysis into applications they write, rather than try to sell directly to end users. On the heels of open source databases come business-intelligence...
The biggest technical obstacle is the scalability of the middleware - ensuring the systems are able to handle the loads of millions of viewers simultaneously changing channels and requesting content. We now have IP video encoders that can handle 36...