Tag Archives: Data management

03Oct/24

MongoDB Announces General Availability of MongoDB 8.0

October 3, 2024TechnologyData management, Distributed computing architecture, Document-oriented databases, MDB, MongoDB, MongoDB Inc., NoSQL, Operational database, Structured storageadmin

MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) today announced the general availability of MongoDB 8.0, the best-performing version of MongoDB, the world’s most popular document database. Millions of developers and more than 50,000 customers—including 70% of the Fortune 100 and leading global enterprises—rely on MongoDB as a trusted operational database for applications across a wide range of use cases. MongoDB 8.0 provides significant performance improvements, reduced scaling costs, and additional scalability, resilience, and data security capabilities. Continue reading

25Sep/24

AI supercharges data center energy use – straining the grid and slowing sustainability efforts

September 25, 2024Environment.google, Artificial intelligence, Ayse Coskun, Cloud storage, Computer cooling, Computers and the environment, Craig Fritz, Creative Commons, Data center, Data management, Demand response, electric power research institute, Electrical grid, Energy development, Immersion cooling, Ireland, Jevons, Sustainable technologies, United States, Water coolingadmin

Ayse Coskun, Boston University

The artificial intelligence boom has had such a profound effect on big tech companies that their energy consumption, and with it their carbon emissions, have surged.

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29Apr/23

Bluesky will enable AI to interact with humans in a social way.

April 29, 2023InternetBitcoin, Blockchain, Blue Sky, BlueSky Open Platform, Computing, Cryptocurrencies, Data management, Decentralization, Information, Internet privacy, Jack Dorsey, Jay Graber, Twitteradmin

28 April 2023 /Internet/– Bluesky is an open-source, decentralized social media protocol being developed by a team of engineers and designers led by Jay Graber. The project was announced in 2019 by Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, who is also a founding member of Bluesky.

Bluesky is a Web 3 project. Web 3 is the next generation of the internet, built on blockchain technology. It is designed to be more decentralized, secure, and transparent than the current web. Continue reading →

30Sep/22

‘Dark data’ is killing the planet – we need digital decarbonisation

September 30, 2022InternetArticles, Carbon finance, Carbon footprint, Carbon offset, Cloud storage, Creative Commons, Data center, Data management, Energy, Greenhouse gas emissions, Ian R. Hodgkinson, London, Low-carbon economy, Nature, Netherlands, New York, Renewable energy, Steve Mann, Tom Jacksonadmin

Tom Jackson, Loughborough University and Ian R. Hodgkinson, Loughborough University

More than half of the digital data firms generate is collected, processed and stored for single-use purposes. Often, it is never re-used. This could be your multiple near-identical images held on Google Photos or iCloud, a business’s outdated spreadsheets that will never be used again, or data from internet of things sensors that have no purpose.

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29Jul/22

Timescale Releases Third State of PostgreSQL Report

July 29, 2022InnovationCross-platform software, Data management, Database, Database management systems, Databases, PostgreSQL, Query languages, Relational database, Relational database management systems, SQLadmin

Timescale is proud to announce the results of its 2022 State of PostgreSQL survey. Timescale is the maker of TimescaleDB, the open-source relational database for time-series and one of the most popular PostgreSQL extensions. This year, nearly 1000 respondents participated in the 4-week survey providing developers unique insight into the PostgreSQL market. Continue reading

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