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

All Things Distributed

The Region launches with two Availability Zones to help customers build highly available applications. This new Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in Australia and New Zealand.

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Utilities, Strategic Investments, and the CIO

The Agile Manager

The rise of Big Data - the ability to store and analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured, internal and external data - promises to let companies react more nimbly than ever before. The eCommerce chief is a customer of the CIO, particularly for utility services that strategic digital assets consume.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

All Things Distributed

Today, I am excited to share with you a brand new service called Amazon QuickSight that aims to simplify the process of deriving insights from a wide variety of data sources in a fast and affordable manner. Big data challenges. Put simply, data is not always readily available and accessible to organizational end users.

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MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases

Highly Scalable

This process is illustrated in the figure below: Case Study: Availability Propagation Through The Tree of Categories. Problem Statement: This problem is inspired by real life eCommerce task. End-of-line category is either available (contains products) or not.

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NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques

Highly Scalable

As a preface, I would like to provide a few general notes on NoSQL data modeling: NoSQL data modeling often starts from the application-specific queries as opposed to relational modeling: Relational modeling is typically driven by the structure of available data. The main design theme is “ What answers do I have?”

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

The space of possible actions can be defined as a set of send/no-send decisions with regard to individual customers and the gross margin of the campaign depends both on actions (who will receive the incentive and who will not) and data such as expected revenue from a given customer and mailing costs. The model (2.1)

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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

All Things Distributed

Today, I am very happy to announce that QuickSight is now generally available in the N. When we announced QuickSight last year, we set out to help all customers—regardless of their technical skills—make sense out of their ever-growing data. Put simply, data is not always readily available and accessible to organizational end users.

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