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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.

AI Makes Inroads into Enterprise Software
July 13th, 2017 Comments Off on AI Makes Inroads into Enterprise Software
Enterprise software is often maligned as a legacy holdover from a previous age, a low-growth market dominated by stodgy software companies out to milk maintenance streams from hapless victims. But two giants of enterprise software, OpenText and Infor, today ...

MapR Rebrands Around Converged Data Fabric
June 6th, 2017 Comments Off on MapR Rebrands Around Converged Data Fabric
MapR Technologies today announced a major rebranding and repositioning of the data storage layer of its converged data platform. MapR-XD, as the data store is now known, provides the mechanism for customers to build a unified data fabric that ...

How Uber Uses Big Data to Optimize Customer Experience
October 6th, 2015 Comments Off on How Uber Uses Big Data to Optimize Customer Experience
If you’ve ever used Uber, you’re aware of how ridiculously simple the process is. You press a button, a car shows up, you go for a ride, and you press another button to pay the driver. But there’s a ...

Unravelling Hadoop Performance Mysteries
November 20th, 2014 Comments Off on Unravelling Hadoop Performance Mysteries
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 Comments Off on How Shutterstock Keeps Its Hyperscale Infrastructure In Check
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 Comments Off on The Hyperscale Lessons Of Healthcare.gov
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 Comments Off on Flash Array Aimed At VDI Heals Other Hospital Applications
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 (2)
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 Comments Off on Amadeus Travel Goes Up Tempo with CouchbaseDB
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 Comments Off on Dell Certifies QLogic Adapters for Converged Network Switch
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) ...
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