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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

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Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. This feature-packed database provides powerful and rapid analytics on data that scales up to petabyte volumes. What Exactly is Greenplum? At a glance – TLDR.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

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This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. In my many conversations with customers, and with the media, I encountered surprise and excitement about the extent that European enterprises have already been using the Amazon Web Services for some time. To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS.

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Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton - All Things Distributed

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Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. The TNW team is doing a great job in getting an excellent program together that draws an audience from around the world, not just Europe, and there is an interesting mix of startups, enterprises, investors and media attending. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Additionally customers are not restricted to AWS services; they can mix-and-match services from other providers to best meet their needs. There are some excellent platforms running on AWS that do precisely this; Ruby on Rails developers have Heroku. Comments ().

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

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A good example is the comments section on this blog; a few lines of JavaScript and these pages have a dynamic nature with comments, trackbacks and social media discussion showing up as they happen. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

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Marketers use big data and artificial intelligence to find out more about the future needs of their customers. Breuninger, a fashion department store chain steeped in tradition, has recognized this and relies on a self-developed e-commerce platform in the AWS Cloud.

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

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Spot Instances are ideal for use cases like web and data crawling, financial analysis, grid computing, media transcoding, scientific research, and batch processing. To get started using Spot or for more details visit the Amazon EC2 Spot Instance web page, the AWS developer blog , and the EC2 Release Notes. Contact Info.

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