Database Scale-Out Using Open Source Software

Database Scale-Out Using Open Source Software

Achieving Infrastructure Agility

Industry analyst Charles Garry says, "To achieve a modern IT infrastructure, an organization must adapt through innovation, while maintaining stability. That is agility. I suggest that open source software is a key technology for driving and achieving this type of infrastructure agility."

In this report from Charles Garry, you'll learn that as society's dependence on information technology becomes increasingly pervasive, IT planners must continually adapt themselves to the challenges of living in an information driven economy. Access to information is now global. Always on, always in demand.

It's time every organization takes a new look at how open source software can assist in solving the scalability needs of today's economy without impacting the stability of mission-critical infrastructure. Planners must begin to look at the infrastructure as not simply a collection of technology components but instead think of it as an architecture -- a meta-level set of open standards and protocols in much the same manner as the Internet itself. Open source software promotes this approach at the component layer and is therefore a wonderful tool for building out an organization's agile infrastructure.

Scaling the database infrastructure with open source software may not only be innovative in itself, but can also encourage further innovation at the application level. A worthy goal indeed for any infrastructure planner.

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