Enterprise Client/server Technology: Massively Parallel Processing for BusinessAs the processing engine of enterprise data applications, MPP will help drive forward client/server computing into the corporate date center. Some far-sighted organizations such as American Express, Dow Jones and Prudential Bache have implemented MPP systems to help derive strategic value from the mountains of data that they gather. This book is intended for managers in business, marketing and information technology who are involved in making strategic decisions about appropriate technology platforms. It will also be an important guide for systems and database administrators requiring some technical background in MPP to aid them in supporting the very large and demanding database applications that will be critical to business viability and success in the late 1990s. |
Contents
The business forces driving fundamental changes | 1 |
The information explosion | 9 |
Globalization and market fragmentation | 16 |
Copyright | |
27 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
achieve adoption applications approach architecture areas bandwidth become capabilities client client/server commercial communications competitive complex corporate cost customers data centre data warehouse database demand disk distributed distributed computing enterprise environment exploit functionality hardware platforms hardware vendors IBM's implementation important increased individual Informix infrastructure interface investment issues latency mainframe major massive memory microprocessor Microsoft Microsoft Windows midrange Moreover MPP platforms MPP RDBMS MPP systems MPP technology multiprocessing OLAP OLTP operating systems Oracle organizations overall parallel computing parallel file system parallel processing performance personal computer potential problem processor nodes processor power proprietary query RDBMS instance RDBMS platform RDBMS vendors relatively requirements resource RISC scalability server shared shared-memory single small number solution strategic suppliers switch Sybase Tandem TCP/IP technical Teradata tions today's transaction UNIX users wide-area workload workstations