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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. 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.

Big Data

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source

What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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.

Storage

Storage Systems Big Data Azure

What is cloud monitoring? How to improve your full-stack visibility

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

In fact, according to a Dynatrace global survey of 1,300 CIOs , 99% of enterprises utilize a multicloud environment and seven cloud monitoring solutions on average. What is cloud monitoring? Cloud monitoring is a set of solutions and practices used to observe, measure, analyze, and manage the health of cloud-based IT infrastructure.

Cloud

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure

Kubernetes for Big Data Workloads

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Kubernetes has emerged as go to container orchestration platform for data engineering teams. In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. Organisations are already using Kubernetes for a variety of workloads [1] [2] and data workloads are up next. Performance. Native frameworks.

Big Data

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware

Any analysis, any time: Dynatrace Log Management and Analytics powered by Grail

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Limited data availability constrains value creation. Modern IT environments — whether multicloud, on-premises, or hybrid-cloud architectures — generate exponentially increasing data volumes. Teams have introduced workarounds to reduce storage costs. Dynatrace discovers logs automatically at scale.

Analytics

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Storage Serverless

Helios: hyperscale indexing for the cloud & edge – part 1

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Helios: hyperscale indexing for the cloud & edge , Potharaju et al., On the surface this is a paper about fast data ingestion from high-volume streams, with indexing to support efficient querying. Cloud-native systems represent by far the largest, most distributed, computing systems in our history. PVLDB’20.

Cloud

Cloud Big Data Latency Architecture

Conducting log analysis with an observability platform and full data context

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

With more automated approaches to log monitoring and log analysis, however, organizations can gain visibility into their applications and infrastructure efficiently and with greater precision—even as cloud environments grow. Further, business leaders must often determine whether the data is relevant for the business and if they can afford it.

Analytics

Analytics Infrastructure Storage Efficiency

Expanding the Cloud ? Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Expanding the Cloud â?? Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. Comments ().

Storage

Storage Cloud AWS Media

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud â??

Big Data

Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud

Data lakehouse innovations advance the three pillars of observability for more collaborative analytics

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Grail data lakehouse delivers massively parallel processing for answers at scale Modern cloud-native computing is constantly upping the ante on data volume, variety, and velocity. To solve this problem, Dynatrace launched Grail, its causational data lakehouse , in 2022. Kubernetes makes spans longer,” Ortner explains.

Analytics

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database

Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Canada (Central) Region

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 8, 2016

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. AWS data centers in Canada will draw from a regional electricity grid that is 99 percent powered by hydropower. in the coming year.

AWS

AWS Cloud Lambda Innovation

Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

All Things Distributed

JUNE 26, 2016

Here are the benefits of a comprehensive platform, with customer examples: A connected platform to sense the business environment. Examples of continuous sensing are found in the managed cloud platform built by Rachio on AWS IoT to enable the secure interaction of its connected devices with cloud applications/other devices.

AWS

AWS Cloud Healthcare Blockchain

Reduce RPO, Encrypt Backups, and More in 1.15.0 Release of Percona Operator for MongoDB

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

release , we added support for physical backups and restores to significantly reduce Recovery Time Objective ( RTO ), especially for big data sets. However, the problem of losing data between backups – in other words, Recovery Point Objective (RPO) – for physical backups was not solved. spec: backup: enabled: true.

Best Practices

Best Practices Storage AWS Big Data

The Need for Real-Time Device Tracking

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

Incoming data is saved into data storage (historian database or log store) for query by operational managers who must attempt to find the highest priority issues that require their attention. The best they can usually do in real-time using general purpose tools is to filter and look for patterns of interest.

IoT

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture

Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. . Here are some great examples from different industries each with unique use cases.

Cloud

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare

Track Thousands of Assets in a Time of Crisis Using Real-Time Digital Twins

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 3, 2020

An innovative new software approach called “real-time digital twins” running on a cloud-hosted, highly scalable, in-memory computing platform can help address this challenge. By avoiding the need to create or connect to complex databases and ship data to offline analytics systems, it can provide timely answers quickly and easily.

Logistics

Logistics Analytics Scalability Cloud

Track Thousands of Assets in a Time of Crisis Using Real-Time Digital Twins

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 3, 2020

An innovative new software approach called “real-time digital twins” running on a cloud-hosted, highly scalable, in-memory computing platform can help address this challenge. By avoiding the need to create or connect to complex databases and ship data to offline analytics systems, it can provide timely answers quickly and easily.

Logistics

Logistics Analytics Scalability Cloud

Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2. Today, Amazon Web Services took very an important step in unlocking the advantages of cloud computing for a very important application area. Unlocking the benefits of the cloud for the HPC community. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency

Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53 - All.

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53. A simple example is the situation with Persons and Telephones; a person has a name, a person can have one or more telephones and each phone can have one or more telephone numbers. Modern systems require much faster update propagation to for example deal with outages.

Cloud

Cloud Internet Internet AWS

A case for ELT

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Cheap storage and on-demand compute in the cloud coupled with the emergence of new big data frameworks and tools are forcing us to rethink the whole ETL and data warehousing architecture. There is a strong argument for ELT i.e. extract, load, and transform model. Classic ETL. Stateless and elastic.

Big Data

Big Data Retail Storage Google

The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. This new region, which is located on the West Coast of the US, helps US government agencies and contractors move more of their workloads to the cloud by implementing a number of US government-specific regulatory requirements. Cloud First. Cloud Firstâ?? Comments ().

AWS

AWS Government Big Data Cloud

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Although there are some good examples that come with Cactus is still early days and there is not much of a community using it. Expanding the Cloud â??

Servers

Servers Social Media AWS Website

Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern.

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern California). This new Region consists of multiple Availability Zones and provides low-latency access to the AWS services from for example the Bay Area. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Comments ().

AWS

AWS Cloud Latency Storage

Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore.

All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. Customers can now store their data and run their applications from our Singapore location in the same way they do from our other U.S. Quite often "The Cloud" is portrayed as something magically transparent that lives somewhere in the internet. Comments ().

AWS

AWS Cloud Latency Storage

Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. - All Things.

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

For example, when our retail customers contributed to create larger economies of scale for Amazon.com, we used the savings to lower pricing such that our customers could also benefit. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Expanding the Cloud â?? Recent Entries.

AWS

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances - All Things.

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. Consistently we have lowered compute, storage and bandwidth prices based on such cost savings. Ideally these applications will periodically save their state into, for example, EBS or Amazon S3 and upon restart read the last saved state and continue their work. Comments ().

Cloud

Cloud AWS Storage Innovation

New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

allthingsdistributed.com) point to same location where for example www.allthingsdistributed.com is pointing to jump through complex redirect hoops. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Expanding the Cloud â?? Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

Internet

Internet Internet AWS Scalability

DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

The one thing that I have always struggled with during my travels are the data plans of the cell phone companies. One wireless company for example has an international plan that will charge you $25 per month for 50MB after which they will charge you $20 per MB. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Recent Entries.

Wireless

Wireless AWS Internet Internet

I am looking for new application and platform services - All Things.

All Things Distributed

APRIL 23, 2010

The ecosystem of new application and platform services in the cloud is the future of application development. As examples of such services I always use Twillio (voice &sms) and Simplegeo (location), but it is time to start building out my knowledge of all the different services that are in the ecosystem. Expanding the Cloud â??

AWS

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data

Fast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. We’ve seen similar high marshalling overheads in big data systems too.) Fetching too much data in a single query (i.e.,

Cache

Cache Latency Google Lambda

Powerful New Amazon EC2 Boot Features - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

But customers have also asked us for more flexibility and control in the way that Amazon EC2 instances are booted such that they have finer grained control over for example what software configurations and data sets are available to the instance at boot time. with new security patches installed), or add new user data.

AWS

AWS Storage Operating System Cloud

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

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The British Government is also helping to drive innovation and has embraced a cloud-first policy for technology adoption. Take Peterborough City Council as an example. Take GoSquared , a UK startup that runs all its development and production processes on AWS, as an example.

AWS

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT

Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

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.

Cloud

Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics

Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Cloud computing? It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” So we can ride that wave of publicity.)

Hardware

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage.

All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy.

Storage

Storage Cloud AWS Scalability

Music to my Ears - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

Music to my Ears - Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player. Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player enable customers to securely and reliably store music in the cloud and play it on any Android phone, tablet, Mac or PC, wherever they are. A Drive in the Cloud. Comments ().

AWS

AWS Cloud Storage Internet

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

For example, to construct a product detail page for a customer visiting Amazon.com, our software calls on between 200 and 300 services to present a highly personalized experience for that customer. The storage systems weve pioneered demonstrate extreme scalability while maintaining tight control over performance, availability, and cost.

Technology

Technology Technology AWS Storage

New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3 - All Things.

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Since a few days ago this weblog serves 100% of its content directly out of the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) without the need for a web server to be involved. This enables Amazon S3 to know what document to serve if one isnt explicitly requested: for example [link]. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

AWS

AWS Website Storage Servers

5 data integration trends that will define the future of ETL in 2018

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

ETL refers to extract, transform, load and it is generally used for data warehousing and data integration. With the arrival of new cloud-native tools and platform, ETL is becoming obsolete. There are several emerging data trends that will define the future of ETL in 2018. Machine learning meets data integration.

Big Data

Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware

Simplifying IT - Create Your Application with AWS CloudFormation.

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

With the launch of AWS CloudFormation today another important step has been taken in making it easier for customers to deploy applications to the cloud. A simple scenario is for example the ability to clearly identify production from staging and development environments. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

AWS

AWS Cloud Scalability Storage

5 Terabyte Object Support in Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Amazon S3 has always been a scalable, durable and available data repository for almost any customer workload. However, as use of the cloud as grown, so have the file sizes customers want to store in Amazon S3 as objects. This is especially true for customers managing HD video or data-intensive instruments such as genomic sequencers.

AWS

AWS Big Data Scalability Storage

Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Adding the Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances. For example, the most fundamental abstraction trade-off has always been latency versus throughput. Cluster GPU programming in the Cloud with the Amazon Web Services changes of all of that. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

AWS

AWS Latency Programming Architecture

Choosing Consistency - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

If you need to achieve high-availability and scalable performance, you will need to resort to data replication techniques. For example updates to data now needs to happen in several locations, so what do you do if one or more of those locations is (temporarily) not accessible? Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

AWS

AWS Latency Database Scalability

What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

What is a Distributed Storage System

Trending Sources

What is cloud monitoring? How to improve your full-stack visibility

Kubernetes for Big Data Workloads

Any analysis, any time: Dynatrace Log Management and Analytics powered by Grail

Helios: hyperscale indexing for the cloud & edge – part 1

Conducting log analysis with an observability platform and full data context

Expanding the Cloud ? Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

Data lakehouse innovations advance the three pillars of observability for more collaborative analytics

Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Canada (Central) Region

Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

Reduce RPO, Encrypt Backups, and More in 1.15.0 Release of Percona Operator for MongoDB

The Need for Real-Time Device Tracking

Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

Track Thousands of Assets in a Time of Crisis Using Real-Time Digital Twins

Track Thousands of Assets in a Time of Crisis Using Real-Time Digital Twins

Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53 - All.

A case for ELT

The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern.

Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore.

Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. - All Things.

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances - All Things.

New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

I am looking for new application and platform services - All Things.

Fast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone

Powerful New Amazon EC2 Boot Features - All Things Distributed

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

Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

Structural Evolutions in Data

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage.

Music to my Ears - All Things Distributed

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3 - All Things.

5 data integration trends that will define the future of ETL in 2018

Simplifying IT - Create Your Application with AWS CloudFormation.

5 Terabyte Object Support in Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

Choosing Consistency - All Things Distributed

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