Red Hat: Embracing Change and Transformation

One of my favorite fun facts in discussing change is that due to the lifecycle of cells, your body mostly replaces itself every seven to 15 years. Companies often have significant changes of personnel, products, and missions, yet like how we think about people, those first impressions are tough to change. Red Hat is a […]

Doing a Reality Check on GPU-Accelerated Databases

The graphics processing units (GPUs) database market has established itself as a substantial startup niche. However, it’s not clear if or when GPU-accelerated databases will ever move into the mainstream enterprise DBMS arena. Though GPUs have made some inroads in recent years into database architectures, it appears unlikely that they’ll break out of the application-specific […]