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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

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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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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

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This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. In my many conversations with customers, and with the media, I encountered surprise and excitement about the extent that European enterprises have already been using the Amazon Web Services for some time. To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

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Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. Given the specialized nature of these platforms, they require dedicated resources to maintain and operate and put a big burden on the IT organization. until today.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

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Marketers use big data and artificial intelligence to find out more about the future needs of their customers. Breuninger, a fashion department store chain steeped in tradition, has recognized this and relies on a self-developed e-commerce platform in the AWS Cloud. These mechanisms need to be lean, seamless and effective.

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Python at Netflix

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takes place in Amazon Web Services (AWS), whereas everything that happens afterwards (i.e., Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites. are you logged in? what plan do you have? what do you want to watch?)

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

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However, the data infrastructure to collect, store and process data is geared toward developers (e.g., In AWS’ quest to enable the best data storage options for engineers, we have built several innovative database solutions like Amazon RDS, Amazon RDS for Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift. Big data challenges.

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Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

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Last week, I wrote a blog about helping the machine learning scientist community select the right deep learning framework from among many we support on AWS such as MxNet, TensorFlow, Caffe, etc. Developers can build, test, and deploy chatbots directly from the AWS Management Console.

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