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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. 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. What is an MPP Database?

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Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

Scalegrid

If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. Over the last few weeks, we have been inundated with requests from SMB customers looking to improve the ROI on their database hosting. MongoDB® Database. EC2 instances.

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Sustainable IT: Optimize your hybrid-cloud carbon footprint

Dynatrace

If you’re running your own data center, you can start powering it with green energy purchased through your utility company. The complication with this approach is that your energy bill will likely increase. Next, we consider possible energy savings in the data center. So you’ll have to look elsewhere for energy savings!”

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What is a Distributed Storage System

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Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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Dynatrace accelerates business transformation with new AI observability solution

Dynatrace

The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources. But energy consumption isn’t limited to training models—their usage contributes significantly more.

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Protecting critical infrastructure and services: Ensure efficient, accurate information delivery this election year

Dynatrace

These components include schools; transportation; energy; water; and communications such as the accuracy, timeliness, and transparency of election reporting. Causes can run the gamut, from coding errors and database slowdowns to hosting or network performance issues.

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Observability engineering: Getting Prometheus metrics right for Kubernetes with Dynatrace and Kepler

Dynatrace

An essential observability engineering tool Prometheus is an open-source telemetry database service that records and stores custom software metrics and provides a standardized interface to pull (in Prometheus terms, “scrape”) data using HTTP requests. To set the stage, let’s have a quick recap of what Prometheus is and what it does.

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