<p>Analyst firm Gartner has urged CIOs to ensure their teams have the right skills to exploitin-memory computing.</p><p>Gartner defines in-memory computing as an emerging paradigm enabling users to developapplications that run advanced queries or perform complex transactions, on very large datasets, atleast one order of magnitude faster and in a more scalable way than when using conventionalarchitectures.</p><p>In-memory computing achieves this by storing application data in a computer's main memory,rather than on discs, and without compromising the availability, consistency and integrity of thatdata.</p><p>Massimo Pezzini, a research director at Gartner said in-memory computing can boost a wide rangeof applications, both analytical and transactional, because it improves applications' performanceand scalability and enables very deep data analysis.</p><p><a href="http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240180804/CIOs-must-reskill-to-succeed-with-in-memory-computing-says-Gartner">Keep reading...</a></p>