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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. Greenplum’s high performance eliminates the challenge most RDBMS have scaling to petabtye levels of data, as they are able to scale linearly to efficiently process data.

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

Dynatrace

Hybrid cloud architecture is a computing environment that shares data and applications on a combination of public clouds and on-premises private clouds. Public cloud refers to on-demand infrastructure and services provided by a third party over the public internet. With public clouds, multiple organizations share resources.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Additionally, many high-end HPC applications take advantage of knowing their in-house hardware platforms to achieve major speedup by exploiting the specific processor architecture. Given the specialized nature of these platforms, they require dedicated resources to maintain and operate and put a big burden on the IT organization.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

Developments like cloud computing, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are proving that IT has (again) become a strategic business driver. Marketers use big data and artificial intelligence to find out more about the future needs of their customers.

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

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Python at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

takes place in Amazon Web Services (AWS), whereas everything that happens afterwards (i.e., Content is placed on the network of servers in the Open Connect CDN as close to the end user as possible, improving the streaming experience for our customers and reducing costs for both Netflix and our Internet Service Provider (ISP) partners.

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

This lead to the birth of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) which was focused on providing a very fine grained parallel model, with processing organized in multiple stages, where the data would flow through. Also more details can be found on the AWS Developer blog. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Contact Info.

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