Earlier this week, large-scale data warehousing and analytics specialist Greenplum announced their move in to cloud services with an Enterprise Data Cloud Initiative . Picked up by ReadWriteWeb from enterprise IT guru Dana Gardner , the initiative will take Greenplum in to new territory, even if its strategy, based on the notion of “self-service” provisioning, remains the same. Self-service provisioning entails that database administrators can provision new data warehouses …

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