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Amazon Omics aims to optimize biological data analysis at scale

The bioinformatics service, made generally available at AWS re:Invent, is designed to help researchers and scientists store and accelerate analysis of genomic and other related biological data types for precision medicine.

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What is a data lake? Massively scalable storage for big data analytics

Dive into data lakes—what they are, how they're used, and how data lakes are both different and complementary to data warehouses.

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9 low-rent cloud providers to challenge AWS, Azure, and GCP

Major cloud providers do it all, and usually for a sizable price. If the high cost of cloud computing has you down, one of these smaller cloud services could be a way out.

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Kubernetes object storage best practices

Like Kubernetes itself, the underlying object storage should be distributed, decoupled, declarative, and immutable.

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Cloudflare hopes lack of outbound data fees will convert AWS S3 users to its R2 storage service

The internet company is taking on the dominant AWS S3 service with its new object storage option R2 by promising to help avoid costly outbound-data charges.

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3 reasons centralizing your data is a bad idea

Centralizing your data is like painting yourself into a corner. Partition data by services to avoid this common mistake.

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What is a computational storage drive? Much-needed help for CPUs

As Moore’s Law loses steam, off-loading data compression, data encryption, low-level data data processing, and other heavy-duty computation tasks to storage nodes makes sense. Here’s how that would work.

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Deep Dive how-to: Office 365 document sharing

Office 2016, OneDrive, and Office 365 together offer powerful document collaboration capabilities across Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, and the web -- but only if you set them up and manage them properly. This how-to guide walks you...