Rolling out a new release of Highlight today – with yet more scalability and performance (alongside VoIP and VLAN features – but that’s another story). Performance has always been key for us; we’re handling large volumes of data and we want Highlight to be really fast and responsive, encouraging people to use and explore the application. A long time back we came to the conclusion that classic, transactional SQL databases simply weren’t fast enough to get the speed we wanted. We’ve spent a lot of time developing our own high-speed database technology for network-collected data, and I was pleased to see at the recent TM-World exhibition that the analytics industry is starting to catch on, with at least one company – infoBright - selling specialised databases for performance data. We do use SQL for administrative data, layered with some cool caching technology, but Highlight is proof that SQL isn’t the right tool for every job.