Scalability

Storage Systems for High Scalable Systems presentation

HFadeel

Sep 3, 2009

The High Scalable Systems (i.e. Websites) such as: Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. need high scalable storage system that can deal with huge amount of data with high availability and reliability. Building large systems on top of a traditional RDBMS data storage layer is no longer good enough. This presentation explores the landscape of new technologies available today to augment your data layer to improve performance and reliability.

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