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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. . But it is not just Dutch entrepreneurs who build their business in the cloud, also traditional Dutch enterprises are moving to the cloud to improve their agility and cost-effectiveness.

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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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Current status, needs, and challenges in Heterogeneous and Composable Memory from the HCM workshop (HPCA’23)

ACM Sigarch

Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. In the first phase, CXL memory should be transparent to applications without requiring changes, especially in public cloud environments.

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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. These distributed storage services also play a pivotal role in big data and analytics operations.

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

All Things Distributed

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. Take Peterborough City Council as an example. We believe in our customers and are investing for the long term.

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The Winds of Architecture Changes at the USENIX ATC 2019

ACM Sigarch

Alongside more traditional sessions such as Real-World Deployed Systems and Big Data Programming Frameworks, there were many papers focusing on emerging hardware architectures, including embedded multi-accelerator SoCs, in-network and in-storage computing, FPGAs, GPUs, and low-power devices. ATC ’19 was refreshingly different.