AI is inspiring organizations to rethink a fundamental IT concept: the data center. For decades, the data center was a centralized place. It was a handful of large, secure facilities where ...

In a recent article, “The Rise Of Distributed Data Centers In The AI Era,” I explored why enterprises are moving beyond a single, centralized data center to a fabric of compact, powerful data centers ...

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The concept of a “data lake,” sometimes called an “enterprise data hub,” is a seductive one. The data lake is the landing zone for all the data in your organization – structured, unstructured and semi ...

Is it possible to write a safe accounting (or inventory management, etc) system that would work with an eventually consistent (and distributed) data store, like say, CouchDB? Do you just have to "live ...