Analytics and In-Memory Databases are Changing Data Centers

For real-time analytics with large data volume this is a solution.  My first exposure to this technology was about 18 months and I was impressed with its capabilities. 

Another solution for realt-time analytics is the use of intelligent agents (think about the crawlers that are currently used but with some embedded analytics capabilities added-on to the recognition and identification algortihmns). I wrote an article about this in 2007:  http://atomai.blogspot.com/2007/03/application-of-data-mining-and.html

In-memory databases analytics and intelligent agents are not mutually exclusive.  If anything, these technologies are complementary in nature.