Novartis certainly needs something to get Entresto moving. The drug managed only $5 million in sales in the fourth quarter, a bit short of consensus estimates of $54.8 million. The company forecasts $5 billion in peak annual sales.
Spanner is a scalable, globally-distributed database de-. signed, built, and deployed at Google. At the high-. est level of abstraction, it is a database that shards data. across many sets of Paxos [21] state machines in data-. centers spread all over the world.
Google's service was developed from Urchin on Demand. The system also brings ideas from Adaptive Path, whose product, Measure Map, was acquired and used in the redesign of Google Analytics in 2006. Google continued to sell the standalone, installable Urchin WebAnalytics Software through a network of value-added resellers until discontinuation on March 28, 2012.