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As applications grow to support tens and hundreds of thousands of users, scaling is becoming a mission-critical activity. Scaling up—improving efficiency by fine-tuning queries, indexes, and so forth, as well as moving to more powerful hardware or upgrading existing hardware—helps IT organizations do more with less. In the past, scaling up met the increasing IT needs of many organizations. After all, even an older Windows NT 3.51 server can address up to 4GB of physical RAM. Newer 64-bit machines can address terabytes of physical RAM, which, even by today’s standards, seems practically infinite. And yet, thanks to the incredible amount of data that organizations handle, all that hardware isn’t always sufficient. |
