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March 25, 2009
breaking Moore's law
Moore's law basically states that the speed of a microprocessor doubles about every 18 months.
But how does this progress help an enterprise cope with exploding volumes of data when the growth of data is growing 1.5 to 2.5 every year? The correct answer, it does not.
Recently someone commented to me about a previous posting here on Ab Initio, and mentioned the 15 second start-up time for an Ab Initio graph. That got me thinking about performance. If you have 600 Ab Initio graphs you run in a nightly batch window with 15 seconds of start-up time that is 2.5 hours wasted. That is a lot of time!
So who cares?
Well you should. Data integration and Business intelligence are about turning data into information. Information is the key to running a successful business. Long gone are the days when a famous brand name will keep a company afloat.
Productivity is the single most important element when turning data into information. Performance is the most important element when you need the information now.
There are a few products on the market that really perform. The ones that perform best are a new breed of parallel processing architectures developed by observing the limitation of the old breed.
- john russell, chief scientist and co-founder
Posted by expressor software at March 25, 2009 11:15 AM
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