30 Years In I.T. …You’d get Less for Murder!
A few weeks ago marked 30 years since yours truly started out as a graduate IT trainee at Royal Insurance (now RSA) in 1988. Back...
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MPP & Redshift Musings
What On Earth is MPP? In computing, massively parallel refers to the use of a large number of processors (or separate computers) to perform a...
Read More →MPP & Cloud – Nothing New Under the Sun
MPP & Cloud - Nothing New Under the Sun The 'shared nothing' or 'massively parallel processing' (MPP) computing architecture is hardly new. The likes of...
Read More →Data Warehouse Application Migration
The last 12 months or so has seen a lot of ‘Big Data’ POCs being initiated in our world. The most frequent objective from both...
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Parallel Processing Supermarket Analogy
Do you know a better parallel processing analogy?
Read More →MapReduce, MPP and Big Data Discussion
There's an interesting article discussing the relationship between the 'old skool' MPP approach to Big Data, and the 'new-fangled' MapReduce approach to Big Data over...
Read More →Teradata Indexes – primary index (PI) deep dive
Whilst at the Teradata Partners 2011 show last October we bought several copies of a book on Teradata indexes called 'Teradata Database Index Essentials', written...
Read More →Teradata Appliance Musings
Some would suggest, quite reasonably, that Teradata has been an appliance ever since it's birth in the 1980's. I would tend to agree, sort of....
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