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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 29th, 2019

High Scalability

I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud. million bits : information learned by average adult; 7.7% : Amazon's share of US retail sales; 100 million : Stack Overflow monthly visitors; $156B : Consumer spending in apps across iOS and Google Play by 2023; Quotable Quotes: John C.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. So many exciting new areas are being empowered by cloud that it is fascinating to watch. Cloud analytics are everywhere. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum can run on any Linux server, whether it is hosted in the cloud or on-premise, and can run in any environment. The advanced analytics provided by Greenplum is being used across many verticals, including finance, manufacturing, automotive, government, energy, education, retail, and so on, to address a wide variety of problems.

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

All Things Distributed

More startups, small and medium businesses, large enterprises, universities, and government organizations all over the world are moving to the AWS Cloud faster than ever before. This region will provide even lower latency and strong data sovereignty to local users. Enterprise Companies – Unilever , ATOC , National Rail Enquiries.

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Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds

The Morning Paper

Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds Mogul & Wilkes, HotOS’19. When it comes to SLOs, the interests of the customer and the cloud provider are at odds, and so we end up with SLAs (Service Level Agreements) that tie SLOs to contractual agreements. The VM is reachable from the Internet? What is ‘up’?

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The Next Generation in Logistics Tracking with Real-Time Digital Twins

ScaleOut Software

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. The ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service , which runs in the Microsoft Azure cloud, hosts real-time digital twins for applications like these that need to track thousands of data sources.

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The Next Generation in Logistics Tracking with Real-Time Digital Twins

ScaleOut Software

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. The ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service , which runs in the Microsoft Azure cloud, hosts real-time digital twins for applications like these that need to track thousands of data sources.