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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. In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. What Exactly is Greenplum?

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. There is no more need for hardware tinkering to keep the clusters up and running (I spent many nights doing this; there is no glory in it). until today.

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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. In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

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How companies can become magnets for digital talent

All Things Distributed

And these talents are by no means coveted only by companies that always had a digital business model to begin with; suppliers to the automotive industry, financial services companies, and retailers also, urgently need product managers, and technical staff who can quickly make their organizations digitally attractive to their customers.

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To Transform, Trade Ego for Humility

The Agile Manager

The firm's capital mix (debt stifles change, equity does not), capital allocation processes (waterfall gatekeeping stifles adaptability), how it sees the products it makes (software and data are more lucrative than hardware), how it operates (deploy many times a day), must all change. The ways of working are radically different.

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Will AWS Have Anything New To Say About Sustainability at re:Invent 2024?

Adrian Cockcroft

Sustainability Specialist, AWS BIZ219 | How BMW is transforming sustainability operations BMW, a renowned automotive manufacturer, is collaborating with AWS to lead the way in sustainable and transparent supply chain management practices within the automotive industry.

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