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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

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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. Essent – supplies customers in the Benelux region with gas, electricity, heat and energy services. Here are some great examples from different industries each with unique use cases.

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6 Ways Cloud Computing and Virtualization Energize Utility IT Operations With Scalability and Flexibility

DZone

Amidst the rapid advancements in the utility and energy industry, where demands continually escalate, the role of IT operations has grown significantly, requiring enhanced capabilities to ensure seamless operations. This offered an enhanced ability to scale operations in line with the growing computational demands and data storage needs.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Polymorphic Data Storage. What Exactly is Greenplum?

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Reducing PostgreSQL Costs in the Cloud

Percona

Benefits of Graviton2 Processors Best price performance for a broad range of workloads Extensive software support Enhanced security for cloud applications Available with managed AWS services Best performance per watt of energy used in Amazon EC2 Storage Continuing with the AWS example, choosing the right storage option will be key to performance.

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Web Development Trends in 2023

KeyCDN

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. Cloud-based development and deployment One of the main advantages of cloud-based development and deployment is scalability. JavaScript frameworks JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue.js