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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Comments ().

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Given the current economic climate, reducing cost within the US federal government is essential -- and an aggressive move to cloud will have a substantial positive impact on the governments IT budget. Government and Big Data. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics.

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Fountainhead: My Cloudy Nerdy Playlist for 2012

Fountainhead

Low budget production. (Do Freakin brilliant tribute to IPv6. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Cloudy - Average White Band (not the greatest audio/video). Other (mostly funny) songs about IT. Nerd Lust - Schaffer & The Darklords. She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby -. Nrrrd Grrrl - MC Chris.