Networking and telecommunication OEMs are at the forefront of design complexity. A network element can contain hundreds of thousands or even millions of source lines and employ hundreds of software ...

Even with today’s powerful multicore processors, system designers must make sure that processes share resources correctly. Time partitioning is a key technique for ensuring that an OS correctly shares ...

Just to wrap up this week’s discussion on VLDBs we need to look at the new features of SQL Server 2008 as it improves the Data Partitioning features introduced in 2005. Let’s take a look. First of all ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...

Despite virtualization becoming more relevant and multiple drives (including external) installed on your PC, there are still good reasons to use multiple partitions on Windows PCs. Regarding Windows, ...