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Act locally, connect globally with IoT and edge computing

All Things Distributed

But they usually have little to no internet connection, making the challenge of exploring environments inhospitable for humans seem even more impossible. The answer to this question is actually on your phone, your smartwatch, and billions of other places on earth—it's the Internet of Things (IoT).

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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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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. Let’s walk through the top use cases for Greenplum: Analytics.

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