ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. To keep operations efficient and cost-effective, it’s important to be able to quickly respond to issues as they occur and efficiently verify their resolution. Walgreens has more than 9,000, and McDonald’s has more than 14,000 in the U.S.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. 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.

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

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. Logs are automatically produced and time-stamped documentation of events relevant to cloud architectures.

Analytics 184

Analytics Infrastructure Storage Efficiency 184

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. Greenplum’s high performance eliminates the challenge most RDBMS have scaling to petabtye levels of data, as they are able to scale linearly to efficiently process data. Polymorphic Data Storage. Major Use Cases.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

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. These short sketches illustrate the power of the cloud for customers, but it is still early days.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

O’Reilly Learning > We wanted to discover what our readers were doing with cloud, microservices, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. Without further ado, here are the key results: • At first glance, cloud usage seems overwhelming. More than half of respondents use multiple cloud services. •

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. Architecture and workload analysis research for these growing areas including the use of QoS (multiple models), innovative caching hierarchies (capturing state), addressing compute efficiency as well as programmability becomes critical.

Wireless 54

Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture 54

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This becomes an even more important lesson at scale: for example, as S3 processes trillions and trillions of storage transactions, anything that has even the slightest probability of error will become realistic. If customers have many tiny files, then storage and bandwidth don’t amount to much even if they are making millions of requests.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. The importance of relationships.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134