Scaling in the Cloud

August 23, 2011

When everyone got on board with cloud computing, did scalability programs follow? The April 2011 meltdown at Amazon affected “only” certain customers.

With all the hype about moving to the cloud a year ago, it was easy for everyone to jump on the bandwagon without really realizing how they’d be able to allocate resources. IT World Canada reported on a cloud scalability technology in the 2010 article, “Montreal Firm Updates Database Management System.”

Almost a year ago, in September 2010, Sand Technology Inc. released Sand CDBMS 6. This column-oriented database management system is the one experts said would be beneficial for cloud computing customers who need workload scalability.

We learned the following about Sand CDBMS 6’s features from the IT World Canada article:

[It] also includes mobile computing support so IT admins can deploy the Sand technology on a laptop and manage data flow to and from the cloud by creating local personal data marts on portable devices…[T]he ability to manage data flow in incremental updates is important given bandwidth can be unreliable.

Additionally, towards the end of the article George Goodall, senior research analyst with Info-Tech Research Group Ltd. offered insight about the current trend of alternatively structured databases given data growth. The clouds are gathering. Get ready for some additional engineering analyses.

Megan Feil, August 23, 2011

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