All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

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.

Analytics 132

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 132

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

Digitalization offers almost endless possibilities to communicate faster, work more efficiently, and be more creative – in real-time. Previously, the top priorities for IT departments were equipping data centers with hardware, purchasing software, and further developing proprietary software.

Social Media 82

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 82

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

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. Greenplum’s high performance eliminates the challenge most RDBMS have scaling to petabtye levels of data, as they are able to scale linearly to efficiently process data.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Andrew Ng , Christopher Ré , and others have pointed out that in the past decade, we’ve made a lot of progress with algorithms and hardware for running AI. Our current set of AI algorithms are good enough, as is our hardware; the hard problems are all about data. The data available to our retail business is much more limited.

Games 118

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 118