O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

Social Media 108

Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Often we think about innovation as going after new unchartered territories, but it is also important to innovate in those existing dimensions that will remain important for customers. Our account managers periodically call customers to work with them to see if there are opportunities to create better efficiencies and lower bills.

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

Their work produces higher-quality code and enables faster innovation, while maintaining high security standards. Faster innovation Without prohibitive contracts and lengthy procurement processes, open source enables developers and DBAs to customize the source code and create new applications for addressing evolving needs.

Open Source 77

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 77

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Spot Instances are an innovation that is made possible by the unparalleled economies of scale created by the tremendous growth of the AWS Infrastructure Services. The broad Amazon EC2 customer base brings such diversity in workload and utilization patterns that it allows us to operate Amazon EC2 with extreme efficiency. Recent Entries.

Cloud 63

Cloud AWS Storage Innovation 63

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

By Werner Vogels on 14 November 2010 04:00 PM. Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. Expanding the Cloud - Adding the Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances. Comments (). From CPU to GPU.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136