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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

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. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

These examples underline that the purpose of software today is not solely to support business processes, but that software solutions have broadly become an essential element in multiple business areas. Marketers use big data and artificial intelligence to find out more about the future needs of their customers.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. Given the specialized nature of these platforms, they require dedicated resources to maintain and operate and put a big burden on the IT organization.

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Python at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

All Things Distributed

Today, I am excited to share with you a brand new service called Amazon QuickSight that aims to simplify the process of deriving insights from a wide variety of data sources in a fast and affordable manner. Big data challenges. We believe this is one of the critical parts of our big data offerings.

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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

All Things Distributed

They require companies to provision and maintain complex hardware infrastructure and invest in expensive software licenses, maintenance fees, and support fees that cost upwards of thousands of dollars per user per year. Enter Amazon QuickSight.

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

All Things Distributed

HubSpot, a marketing and sales software leader, uses a chatbot called GrowthBot to help marketers and sales personnel be more productive by providing access to relevant data and services. They provided us with valuable feedback as we rounded off Amazon Lex for a preview launch.

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