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NFL reveals new ‘Expected Rush Yards’ stat, with help from Amazon Web Services

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Football fans wondering whether the next handoff to a running back could be another Beast Quake have another stat to track thanks to Next Gen Stats , the platform powered by Amazon Web Services. The NFL has used AWS cloud computing technology for Next Gen Stats since 2015 and introduced machine learning to the mix in 2017.

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Strata + Hadoop World is March 13–16, 2017 in San Jose, CA

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Amazon Web Service AWS September 2017 Software Defined Data Infrastructure Updates

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The post Amazon Web Service AWS September 2017 Software Defined Data Infrastructure Updates appeared first on StorageIOblog. Unlike traditional partner software defined solutions that relied on AWS Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances, VMware is being deployed using private bare metal AWS elastic servers.

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Here are the six new stats Amazon will help the NFL track during the upcoming football season

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Fans might not be able to engage in football by attending NFL games in person at the start of the upcoming season, but they can dive deeper into the sport thanks to new Next Gen Stats powered by Amazon Web Services. RELATED: Can the Seahawks win without the 12th Man’s roar?

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How commercial space stations could become the final frontier for data and cybersecurity

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It’s the latest big move for Meyerson, who lives in Tacoma, Wash., and served as the president of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture from 2003 to 2017. So does that mean Axiom Space will be going up against Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure? ISPCS via YouTube). Not at all, Meyerson said.

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Tech Moves: AWS exec named Splunk president; Amazon vet joins Overstock as CMO; and more

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Former Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft executive Teresa Carlson will join Splunk in the new role of president and chief growth officer effective April 19. Splunk is a publicly-traded big data company based in San Francisco with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. Teresa Carlson. Splunk Photo). Dave Heiner.

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What’s Free at Linux Academy — May 2019

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Launch Your First OpenShift Operator — OpenShift is a Kubernetes distribution certified by CNCF in 2017, for the Enterprise, but it provides so much more than container orchestration. Our goal with this course is to provide a simple, conceptual introduction to the concepts of cloud computing, Amazon Web Services, and its core services.

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