Recent Blog ArticlesMost RecentMost LikesBenchmarking goodness: Comparing Lustre, GlusterFS, and BeeGFS on Azure Once again we’ve updated the popular ebook, “Parallel Virtual File Systems on Microsoft Azure: Performance Tests of Lustre, GlusterFS, and BeeGFS.” Learn about using cost-effective NVMe disks with Lu...Run OPM Flow reservoir simulation and visualization software on Azure See our new example architecture for running open source OPM Flow reservoir simulation software and viewing the results on Azure. You just need the right HPC hardware and a shared storage location fo...NEW E-BOOK UPDATE: Parallel Virtual File Systems on Microsoft Azure On January 11, 2019AzureCAT published significant updates to the Parallel Virtual File Systems on Microsoft Azure e-book. The revised version features a new BeeGFS template library, complete with sa...NEW WHITEPAPER: Run MPI workloads with Azure Batch and Azure NetApp Files Learn how to set up MPI workloads on Azure using Azure Batch, a service that makes it easy to run large-scale jobs in parallel. Using Columnstore on ERP tables First published on MSDN on Apr 13, 2017 by Martin Merdes. This blog post might be outdated by now.The latest documentation regarding SQL Server Columnstore on SAP is available inhttps://www.sa...Choosing SQL Server compression type for SAP First published on MSDN on Serp 21, 2010 by Martin Merdes. This blog post might be outdated by now.The latest documentation regarding SQL Server Data Compression on SAP is available inhttps://...Compressing an SAP database using report MSSCOMPRESS First published on MSDN on Oct 08, 2010 by Martin Merdes. This blog post might be outdated by now.The latest documentation regarding report MSSCOMPRESS is available inhttps://www.sap.com/docum...Increased partition support of SQL Server in SAP BW First published on MSDN on Mar 18, 2011 by Martin Merdes. This blog post might be outdated by now.The latest documentation regarding SQL Server Partitioning on SAP is available inhttps://www.s...SQL Server Page Compression became default for SAP First published on MSDN on Aug 22, 2011 by Martin Merdes. Decreased disk space requirement for SAP Unicode systems First published on MSDN on Sep 05, 2011 by Martin Merdes.