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Act locally, connect globally with IoT and edge computing

All Things Distributed

But they usually have little to no internet connection, making the challenge of exploring environments inhospitable for humans seem even more impossible. The answer to this question is actually on your phone, your smartwatch, and billions of other places on earth—it's the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Log4Shell highlights need for secure digital transformation with observability, vulnerability management

Dynatrace

This zero-day vulnerability enables a remote attacker to take control of a device or Internet-based application if the device or app runs certain versions of Log4j 2, a popular Java library. Many of Avisi’s customers develop custom applications for their industries, including financial services, transportation, and healthcare.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

For example, a billion dollar scale Internet Marketing company is using Greenplum advanced analytics to perform audience profiling to understand who their audience is, what they buy, which networks and devices they use, and where they are geographically located so they can better understand and serve their market. How to Get Started.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 4th, 2019

High Scalability

Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (34 almost 5 star reviews). So many more quotes.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

All Things Distributed

In addition, Change Healthcare. previously known as Emdeon) uses Amazon SNS to handle millions of confidential client transactions daily to process claims and pharmacy requests serving over 340K physicians and 60K pharmacies in full compliance with healthcare industry regulations. . We are at the cusp of a dramatic age of technology.

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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet. Data consistency is especially important in financial and healthcare systems, where incorrect or outdated data can have serious and even fatal consequences. In general terms, again, when it comes to database reliability, the stakes are high.