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Expanding the Cloud ? introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

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By Werner Vogels on 12 November 2012 05:00 AM. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud รข?? introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. Comments (). Today, Amazon Web Services has greater worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sydney, Australia.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

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Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. By offloading the task of managing infrastructure to AWS Essent is able to spend more time on innovating on behalf of their customers to help them in their energy usage.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

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More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. Gallien, 2012. Duhigg, 2012. Zhang, 2012. Nakanishi, 2010.

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