A data processing services firm said it boosted server performance significantly by replacing its servers’ internal disks with Intel X-25M solid-state drives (SSDs).
The company, which goes by the name richrelevance, serves personalized product recommendations for online retailers such as Sears, processing millions of requests each day over its five data centers. Each data center operates a farm of Dell and Hewlett-Packard servers with internal disks for parallel processing.
Sales veteran to lead rapidly-expanding sales team to deliver next-generation personalized recommendations to top retailers worldwide
The harder retailers work to get us to buy on their products, it seems, the lazier we can be.
Who needs to go into the store now that product recommendation engine RichRelevance and interactive marketing firm, and member of the Augmented Reality (AR) Consortium, Zugara just unveiled Fashionista, a solution that allows shoppers to try on items using a computer and Webcam.
by David Selinger
Anticipating that a financial crisis like the one we’re currently experiencing wasn’t far away, I’ve run my company, richrelevance, on a zero-fat budget, raising small rounds of capital to ensure our team built the discipline to operate with small budgets. Yet, anticipation of the downturn does not make me immune to the shift. External risks in every business have changed. None of us will go through the next 18 months without significant impact.
RichRelevance continues to attract the best technical and eCommerce talent to execute on its vision of next-generation personalization, recommendations and merchandising
Online recommendation service richrelevance taps Darren Vengroff, formerly of Amazon.com, as Chief Scientist.
Renowned computer scientist Darren Vengroff has taken on a new role as richrelevance’s chief scientist. He’ll be leading tech strategy and development, as well as working closely with CEO David Selinger. Vengroff previously was CTO of and co-founded Pelago, a company best known for its Twitter mobile app, Whrrl. Earlier, he served as principal engineer at Amazon.com.
richrelevance hired DARREN VENGROFF as chief scientist. Vengroff previously served as principal engineer at Amazon.com.