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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. These sensors create massive amounts of geological data. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. Royal Dutch Shell – is one of the world’s largest companies. *In

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Additionally, many high-end HPC applications take advantage of knowing their in-house hardware platforms to achieve major speedup by exploiting the specific processor architecture. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed. Comments (). until today.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

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Each time, the underlying implementation changed a bit while still staying true to the larger phenomenon of “Analyzing Data for Fun and Profit.” ” They weren’t quite sure what this “data” substance was, but they’d convinced themselves that they had tons of it that they could monetize.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

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Vivino was founded in 2010 and now has more than 20 million users worldwide and offices in four countries across three continents. The first platform is a real time, big data platform being used for analyzing traffic usage patterns to identify congestion and connectivity issues. Telenor Connexion is all-in on AWS.

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. This lead to the birth of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) which was focused on providing a very fine grained parallel model, with processing organized in multiple stages, where the data would flow through. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Comments ().

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