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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

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

Scalegrid

In this article, we are going to compare three of the most popular cloud providers, AWS vs. Azure vs. DigitalOcean for their database hosting costs for MongoDB® database to help you decide which cloud is best for your business. We compare AWS vs. Azure vs. DigitalOcean using the below instance types: AWS. EC2 instances. VM instances.

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Don’t follow the sun: Scheduling compute workloads to chase green energy can be counter-productive

Adrian Cockcroft

Sunset in Morocco — photo taken by Adrian We want to reduce carbon emissions of our compute and storage workloads, and one way of doing this is to choose a time and place where the “grid mix” of energy consumed is less carbon intensive. The computers you stopped using aren’t following the sun.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. Polymorphic Data Storage. Greenplum’s polymorphic data storage allows you to control the configuration for your table and partition storage with the freedom to execute and compress files within it at any time.

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Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

Dynatrace

And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks? Storing frequently accessed data in faster storage, usually in-memory caching, improves data retrieval speed and overall system performance. Beyond

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AWS re:Invent 2023 guide: Generative AI takes a front seat

Dynatrace

Application security fuels secure digital transformation for a global energy leader – blog Learn how this global energy leader achieved a secure digital transformation with confidence when migrating to AWS. What is cloud application security? – blog What is cloud application security?

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Sustainability Talks and Updates from AWS re:Invent 2023

Adrian Cockcroft

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. The last number I saw was “over 20GW”, and Amazon has much better global PPA coverage, including India and China, than Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, who have very few PPAs in Asia.

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