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'Paris s'éveille'! Introducing the AWS EU (Paris) Region

All Things Distributed

The cloud is an opportunity to stay competitive in each of these domains by giving companies freedom to innovate quickly. French companies are using AWS to innovate in a secure way across industries as diverse as energy, financial services, manufacturing, media, pharmaceuticals and health sciences, retail, and more.

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5 industries that demonstrate how blockchains go beyond finance

O'Reilly

Gem and Tierion are startups working different aspects of data storage, verification and sharing (both partnered with Philips Healthcare), while Hu-manity.co Their work could inspire innovations in other spaces with similar characteristics. But it is also being explored as a key mechanism for innovative approaches to insurance.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

Due to the exponential growth of the biology and informatics fields, Unilever needs to maintain this new program within a highly-scalable environment that supports parallel computation and heavy data storage demands.

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The Future in Visual Computing: Research Challenges

ACM Sigarch

cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. One such example is activity recognition in motion video (such as LRCN , Convnets ) which may entail running combinations of both convolutional as well as recurrent neural networks simultaneously.

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Utilities, Strategic Investments, and the CIO

The Agile Manager

Each is a new take on an old theme, echoing one part of the contradiction that has riddled every business with a captive technology department: we want to minimize how much we spend on IT, and we want IT to be a source of innovation. A megabyte of cloud-based disk storage is no different from a kilowatt of electricity.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

All Things Distributed

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. For more information about how customers are innovating using AWS, see All AWS Customer Stories.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

This becomes an even more important lesson at scale: for example, as S3 processes trillions and trillions of storage transactions, anything that has even the slightest probability of error will become realistic. If customers have many tiny files, then storage and bandwidth don’t amount to much even if they are making millions of requests.

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