35% of organizations to adopt IMC through 2015, finds Gartner

Gartner forecasts fast emerging in-memory computing (IMC) to reach $1 billion by 2016. IMC is becoming more affordable and consuming less time in database processing by using innovative architectures. "The relentless declines in DRAM and NAND flash memory prices, the advent of solid-state drive technology and the maturation of specific software platforms have enabled IMC to become more affordable and impactful for IT organizations," said Massimo Pezzini, vice president and Gartner Fellow. "Organizations that do not consider adopting in-memory application infrastructure technologies risk being out-innovated by competitors that are early mainstream users of these capabilities," said Mr. Pezzini. Gartner says "IMC is an emerging paradigm enabling user organisations to develop applications that run advanced queries or perform complex transactions on very large datasets at least one order of magnitude faster — and in a more scalable way — than when using conventional architectures. It achieves this by storing application data in a computer's main DRAM, rather than on electromagnetic disks, and without compromising the availability, consistency and integrity of that data. " Gartner explains "In-memory-enabling application infrastructure technologies consist of in-memory database management systems, in-memory data grids, high-performance messaging infrastructures, comple...