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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. In addition to its goal of reducing energy costs, Shell needed to be more agile in deploying IT services and planning for user demand.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

When handling large amounts of complex data, or big data, chances are that your main machine might start getting crushed by all of the data it has to process in order to produce your analytics results. Greenplum features a cost-based query optimizer for large-scale, big data workloads. Query Optimization.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

All Things Distributed

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

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