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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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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

All Things Distributed

Mid-sized Organisations – Haven Power , Holiday Extras , ">Exeter Family Friendly , ">Royal Opera House , ">Total Jobs , Retail Companies – Shop Direct , Nisa Retail , Kurt Geiger , Sport Pursuit. Media and Entertainment – BBC , Channel 4 , ITV , News UK , The FT , Trinity Mirror , The Guardian.

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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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Utilities, Strategic Investments, and the CIO

The Agile Manager

The advent of mobile and social media allow firms to interact more directly, more frequently and more intimately with customers than ever. The rise of Big Data - the ability to store and analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured, internal and external data - promises to let companies react more nimbly than ever before.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. Would you like to be a part of Big Data and this incredible project?

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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. Real-time monitoring and evaluation of events have led to a positive impact on performance or operations.

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

All Things Distributed

Whether it is a consumer app for photo sharing or printing, or the organization of images in the archives of media and news organizations, or filtering images for public safety and security, the need to derive insight from the visual content of the images continues to grow rapidly.

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