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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware. The City of Chicago is one of the first to bring sensors throughout the city that will permanently measure air quality, light intensity, sound volume, heat, precipitation, wind and traffic.

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Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption

The Morning Paper

There are high hopes for 5G , for example unlocking new applications in UHD streaming and VR, and machine-to-machine communication in IoT. Three different 5G phones are used, including a ZTE Axon10 Pro with powerful communication (SDX 50 5G modem) and compute (Qualcomm Snapdragon TM855) capabilities together with 256GB of storage.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

All Things Distributed

Vivino also uses Auto Scaling to deal with the large seasonal fluctuations in traffic. During the winter holiday season, the use of the app increases by up to 300% and AWS allows them to seamlessly scale up to cope with the increase in traffic. Telenor Connexion. They are primarily using the services for two main platforms.

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