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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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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

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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.

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

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Examples of continuous sensing are found in the managed cloud platform built by Rachio on AWS IoT to enable the secure interaction of its connected devices with cloud applications/other devices. In addition, Change Healthcare. Seamless ingestion of large volumes of sensed data. We are at the cusp of a dramatic age of technology.

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