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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

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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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. Five-nines availability has long been the goal of site reliability engineers (SREs) to provide system availability that is “always on.” Site reliability engineering teams often measure system availability in percentages in the pursuit of 100% uptime.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. Many of these innovations will have a significant analytics component or may even be completely driven by it. Cloud analytics are everywhere.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. Shell''s scientists, especially the geophysicists and drilling engineers, frequently use cloud computing to run models. They provision compute capacity themselves, run their models and then return the cloud compute capacity, getting charged only for what they used.

Cloud 129
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How companies can become magnets for digital talent

All Things Distributed

Job openings for machine learning scientists, data analytics experts, IT security experts or developers are already difficult to fill, and the demand for this knowledge will increase significantly in the next few years as customers show their demand for digital engagements.

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What Is Hyperautomation?

O'Reilly

Andrew Ng , Christopher Ré , and others have pointed out that in the past decade, we’ve made a lot of progress with algorithms and hardware for running AI. Our current set of AI algorithms are good enough, as is our hardware; the hard problems are all about data. The data available to our retail business is much more limited.

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Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

All Things Distributed

Around 20 years ago, we used machine learning in our recommendation engine to generate personalized recommendations for our customers. The same conversational engine that powers Alexa is now available to any developer, making it easy to bring sophisticated, natural language 'chatbots' to new and existing applications.

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