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Amazon Aurora ascendant: How we designed a cloud-native relational database

All Things Distributed

This is not to say that a system administrator necessarily enjoys dealing with relational databases. It's a task that requires the undivided attention of dedicated system and database administrators. Those fundamentals helped make relational databases immensely popular with users everywhere.

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Amazon Aurora ascendant: How we designed a cloud-native relational database

All Things Distributed

This is not to say that a system administrator necessarily enjoys dealing with relational databases. It's a task that requires the undivided attention of dedicated system and database administrators. Those fundamentals helped make relational databases immensely popular with users everywhere.

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What is a managed service provider? Strategic outsourcing for IT services

CIO Business Intelligence

Another area of growth for MSPs has been in providing internet of things (IoT) services, with 50% of MSPs seeing IoT as a significant revenue opportunity, according to CompTIA. MSPs also hire IT pros for roles tailored to specific vendor solutions, such as VMware and Oracle.