Contents
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Welcome letter from the Managing Director
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Upfront
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First Distribution News
First Distribution Annual Golf Day photos
Kevin Derman: In My Opinion
Cloud Computing and Data Governance
An interview with First Distribution’s new Africa manager,
Brett Stevens
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Amazon AWS Focus
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Ahead of the Game: Some insight into the success story that
is AWS
AWS’ Market Dominance
Investigating the possibility of an Amazon spinning off AWS
Chatting with First Distribution’s new Amazon AWS Product
and Sales Specialist, Russell Warne
Cheaper by the Dozen: research reveals potential savings
enabled by using multiple cloud providers
Analysing AWS’ competition
A quick guide to AWS pricing
AWS quick start guides
Estimating AWS costs
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General Industry
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The Cloud Catalyst Programme – assisting FD’s par