I get asked fairly frequently to give metrics on Pervasive performance, particularly as it relates to integrating SaaS applications such as NetSuite and RightNOW. Just today, a customer asked me what Pervasive’s performance metrics around SalesForce were. This is a very difficult question for me to answer…

In the last posting I described and explained the graph below. It depicts the ever increasing speed and capability of computers through the decades. I referred to application migration, represented by the white arrows in the illustration, but never said much about it for lack of space. I can rectify that. As computers get faster, [...]

Ever since the dawn of IT there has been a constant clamor for more computer power. Why? Obviously because there are applications which some people believe run too slowly and, even now, there are applications that we cannot build because the IT performance won’t allow us to – despite Moore’s Law’s evergreen gift of escalating [...]

What does “Big Data” have to do with data integration? Those looking to move to technologies such as MapReduce and Hadoop who don’t have a good data integration strategy to go with their “Big Data” strategy will quickly need to get one.

Why should we care about Parallel Programming? – “This year, for example, you can buy yourself a fairly cheap server with 32 cores or even 48 cores. But can you use the cores? Unless you are running parallel software, the answer is going to be; “err, a little, maybe.””

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