D+R International is planning an end to the Lighting Facts program that the DOE used to bring credibility to LED-based lighting products in the early ‘Wild West’ days of the SSL revolution.

The AWS Digital Customer Experience Competency recognizes AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners with solutions that allow organizations to leverage customer data to drive personalized and relevant messaging that captures the attention of the customer and converts them to becoming a buyer.

The AWS Digital Customer Experience Competency Partners support all phases of the digital customer acquisition and retention lifecycle, including content management and marketing automation to engage prospects and customers with the right messaging; effective and secure digital commerce solutions to create seamless buying experiences, and data analytics solutions to support business decisions and retain customers.

All the AWS Digital Customer Experience Competency Partners have undergone a rigorous validation process, including a third-party audit and vetted customer experience.

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Customers using AWS ParallelCluster to set up their High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters can now automatically create a new Amazon FSx for Lustre file system, or specify an existing Amazon FSx for Lustre file system to use, as part of the cluster creation process. With this feature AWS ParallelCluster further reduces the operational overhead of cluster management and simplifies running HPC workloads on AWS.

HPC clusters are collections of tightly coupled compute, storage, and networking resources that enable customers to run large scale scientific and engineering workloads. AWS ParallelCluster is a fully supported and maintained open source cluster management tool that makes it easy for scientists, researchers, and IT administrators to deploy and manage HPC clusters on AWS. AWS ParallelCluster is available at no additional charge, and you pay only for the AWS resources needed to run your applications.

Amazon FSx for Lustre provides high-performance file systems that are optimized for workloads such as HPC, machine learning, analytics, electronic design automation, and media processing. These workloads commonly require data to be presented via a fast and scalable POSIX-compliant file system interface and typically have input data sets that are stored on durable, long-term data stores like Amazon S3. Amazon FSx for Lustre provides sub-millisecond access to your data and allows you to read and write data at speeds of up to hundreds of GBs per second. FSx for Lustre integrates natively with Amazon S3, making it easy for you to process HPC data sets stored in Amazon S3. You can also use Amazon FSx for Lustre as a standalone high-performance file system for workloads you burst to the cloud. By copying on-premises data to an FSx for Lustre file system, you can make that data available for fast processing by compute instances running on AWS.

Learn more about using Amazon FSx for Lustre with AWS ParallelCluster here.

 

Amazon Athena is now available in the Canada (Central) region.

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.

With the latest release, Amazon Athena is now available in US East (Northern Virginia, & Ohio), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), AWS GovCloud (US-West), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, & London), and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul, & Mumbai) regions.

To learn more, please visit the Amazon Athena page .

AWS Step Functions now supports additional access control with tag-based permissions. This allows you to control access based on tags using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies.

The White Company is an established U.K. retailer that provides shoppers with high-quality and affordable linens, home accessories, clothing, furniture, and fragrances. Traditionally hosting SAP Hybris Commerce on-premises, The White Company faced scalability and performance issues during peak online shopping times. Working with APN Partner Piksel Retail, The White Company migrated its SAP Hybris deployment to DC2, Piksel’s managed Hybris solution hosted on AWS. By migrating SAP Hybris Commerce to Piksel Retail’s DC2 platform on AWS, The White Company has experienced massive performance improvements, traffic uplifts, and sales increases during the past two Cyber Weekends. 

Learn more about how to take advantage of performance improvements, traffic uplifts, and sales increases  >>

Today we are announcing the general availability of the new AWS Direct Connect console to users in all AWS Regions, except China. The redesigned AWS Direct Connect console provides a new user interface and a streamlined user experience.

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With many water filtration companies competing for your business, do you know what the key factors are when choosing which will best fit your company’s requirements?

Be sure that when you begin to look for the best industrial water filtration companies, you spend time looking at their history and customer references. You need to ask the right questions in order to find the right water filtration and drinking water dispenser.

• How many people will be using the system?
• What are your primary goals for having a water purification system?
• What type of plumbing situation is it where you want the water dispensers?
• Do you know how bad or good your water is?
• Have you noticed any algea growing in your existing water coolers?

Be sure to offer answers to these questions in order that the best water coolers can be recommended for your situation. If these questions are not being asked, ask yourself if you’re speaking to one of the best water filtration companies in your area.

The bottom line is that service is key since you’re trusting the health of your employees or your manufacturing specifications to that company. Often, poorly maintained water systems will produce bacteria or lead to other contaminants infiltrating your water production system.

You will be putting your trust in the service and the technology to accomplish what was promised. You’ll expect the best water filtration companies to provide worry free service and the latest water filtration technology on the market that will continue to operate the way you want it to. It all comes down to trust.

PureWater Dyanmics has been an innovator in the Denver Metro area for more than twenty years. In fact, when all of the other companies were trudging water bottles through offices, PureWater Dynamics was introducing a higher quality water cooler service that is less costly to the business and more environmentally friendly.

As a family run company, our reputation is dependent on customer referrals and long-lasting relationships. When there is any problem with your water filtration system, our company employees are on call 7 days a week to take care of any emergency. Water filters are replaced on a regular maintenance schedule so you don’t have to worry about it.

We pride ourselves on our long lasting relationships with our water service customers. We service corporations for manufacturing water, municipal and county offices and individual home owners with their purified drinking water systems.

Just as important is getting the correct system to meet your needs. We offer point-of-use water coolers that stand alone, countertop water cooler dispensers, under-counter water chillers, water filtration systems and industrial water cleaning that will feed your coffee machines to give you the best coffee you’ve ever had. See:  Using the best water filtration systems makes all the difference.

To get more information, click below to get a quote and to set up a Free* 30 day trial of a water cooler dispenser for your business. Call 303-357-5269 today, to determine the best equipment for your office.

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Amazon RDS Performance Insights, an advanced database performance monitoring feature that makes it easy to diagnose and solve performance challenges on Amazon RDS databases, is now generally available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server. It offers a free tier with 7 days of data retention and a paid long-term data retention option.  

You can now download the Amazon Corretto 11 release candidate. Corretto 11 is the distribution of Amazon Corretto corresponding to OpenJDK 11.