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Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using.

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Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using Amazon RDS. By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

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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. Tom Tom – Founded in 1991, TomTom is a leading provider of navigation and location-based products and services.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

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By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. Managing databases has been a stumbling block for many of our customers, shifting their time away from developing innovative applications to the â??muckâ?? Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. Comments ().

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

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A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

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Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility - All Things.

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By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Document Model Support in DynamoDB: Flexibility, Availability, Performance, and Scale.Together at last

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Let’s now look at the history behind the service and the context for new innovations that make me think that. In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo. NoSQL and Scale. The original Dynamo paper inspired many database solutions, which are now popularly referred to as NoSQL databases.

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Amazon DynamoDB - From the Super Bowl to WeatherBug - All.

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By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. ve already passed our 2012 targets. We switched to storing our game data in DynamoDB, which alleviated our scaling problems while also freeing us from the burden of managing all the underlying hardware and software. All Things Distributed. Comments (). In short, DynamoDB is taking off.

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