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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

In addition to its goal of reducing energy costs, Shell needed to be more agile in deploying IT services and planning for user demand. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. Essent – supplies customers in the Benelux region with gas, electricity, heat and energy services.

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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. Fraud.net is a good example of this.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. At the same time, we avoid academic results with little or no empirical support.

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The Winds of Architecture Changes at the USENIX ATC 2019

ACM Sigarch

As is the case for many high-quality computer systems conferences, the papers presented here involve a significant amount of engineering and experimentation on real hardware to convincingly evaluate innovative concepts end-to-end in a realistic setting. ATC ’19 was refreshingly different.