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.
Like Google's MapReduce and BigTable papers, the publication of the Spanner paper provides the open source database community with a valuable peek inside the architecture and operations of the largest distributed systems in the world, Basho's Gross said. Spanner is the successor to Google's Megastore system.