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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 Canada (Central) Region

All Things Distributed

Earlier this year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in Montreal, Quebec. The AWS Cloud now operates in 40 Availability Zones within 15 geographic regions around the world, with seven more Availability Zones and three more regions coming online in China, France, and the U.K.

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Hybrid cloud infrastructure explained: Weighing the pros, cons, and complexities

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A hybrid cloud, however, combines public infrastructure and services with on-premises resources or a private data center to create a flexible, interconnected IT environment. Hybrid environments provide more options for storing and analyzing ever-growing volumes of big data and for deploying digital services.

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What is a data lakehouse? Combining data lakes and warehouses for the best of both worlds

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In a data lakehouse model, organizations first migrate data from sources into a data lake. Then, a subset of this data seamlessly filters through to become more curated and trusted data sets on which organizations set the required governance, use, and access rules. What are the features of a data lakehouse?

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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

All Things Distributed

Yesterday, AWS evangelist Jeff Barr wrote that AWS will be opening a region in South Korea in early 2016 that will be our 5th region in Asia Pacific. The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017).

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

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Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Hong Kong! The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong.

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Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy

Scalegrid

Workloads from web content, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence stand out as particularly well-suited for hybrid cloud infrastructure owing to their fluctuating computational needs and scalability demands.

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