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The shift to per core licencing rather than per CPU while a reasonable thing to do does have big cost implications.
"Always-on" technology puts us in a good place for hybrid...
April 19, 2013 at 1:14 am
When data is bad or can be shown to be bad then a general distrust in ALL data will result.
In situations where the data is good but is telling an...
April 15, 2013 at 9:30 am
When it comes to control systems its worth asking if a complex electronic system is actually required.
At one point Renault used an electronic hand-brake in one of their models. ...
March 27, 2013 at 7:51 am
Rod, the one I witnessed was one of our IT delivery managers parking up in his Alfa 159 with the windows down absolutely blue in the face. He'd tried...
March 25, 2013 at 4:41 pm
One of the problems with more modern vehicles is that they are too intelligent for their own good.
I know a highly competent mechanic who had to take a vehicle to...
March 25, 2013 at 11:10 am
Well not all that is stored. It's typically a looping camera, downloaded only when something interesting happens.
Jackpot!:w00t:
March 25, 2013 at 10:57 am
In the UK I expect telematics to be widely adopted by the insurance industry. These telematic devices produce several "events" per second so 1 million events per user per...
March 25, 2013 at 3:29 am
It depends. At low to medium scale its a case of keeping your eye on things and let the system sort itself out.
At high scale you do want to...
March 22, 2013 at 2:37 am
I think I've learnt that even the well informed and smart people only have a vague clue about what the future will hold.
Even the guys who guess right are only...
March 16, 2013 at 6:24 am
I've changed my mind about the existence of superiority of one technology vs another.
If you look at the comments following a ZDNet article there is rabid hatred of Microsoft expressed...
March 15, 2013 at 3:06 am
Well said. Index usage stats are particularly revealing.
I'm in the process of deprecating and consolidating systems and key weapon in the arsenal is being able to proove categorically...
March 13, 2013 at 2:48 am
We hired an external consultant to look at our data tier. He genuinely knew his stuff and made some good suggestions surrounding best practise. But the more he...
March 12, 2013 at 2:33 am
Love the idea of being able to move my entire desk, it would make life a lot easier for our office services guys as well.
I've seen loads of designs for...
March 6, 2013 at 2:27 am
Most people would never go beyond the bounds of a BIGINT with an IDENTITY(1,1) but for those of us who do, remember that reseeding identity values is incompatible with this...
March 6, 2013 at 1:52 am
I'd say architect your solution for failure. If you design for cloud then you know you have to design for failure because it is a fact of life.
SSDs are...
March 4, 2013 at 3:56 am
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