Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Arjun Ruparelia; When you try to access streaming platforms like Hotstar or SonyLIV from outside India, you’ll see a page that will tell you the service isn’t available in the country you’re in. It’s because the platforms are geoblocked and you’ll need an Indian IP address to access them. However, if you don’t know how to get an Indian IP address using a VPN, we’ve got your back. Key Takeaways: If you want unrestricted access to Indian websites, you’ll need an Indian IP. You can get one using a VPN.We recommend ExpressVPN because it’s fast, secure and ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; The last time we wrote the worst VPN guide, we tested numerous VPNs and combed through their privacy policies to spot their weaknesses. Some of the services we highlighted as VPN scams, like Onavo Protect, have ceased operation, while others such as Archie VPN have changed for the better.  However, the rot in the free VPN market is getting worse, making it difficult for you to distinguish trustworthy free VPN services. Thankfully, we thoroughly searched through the market to pinpoint the worst free VPN providers that either track your sensitive information, unload malware onto your ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Kit Copson; Before we get into where to watch Westworld, a brief summary to refresh your memory. Evan Rachel Wood stars as Dolores Abernathy in Westworld. Supporting cast includes Jeffrey Wright as Bernard Lowe, Aaron Paul, Thandiwe Newton, Tessa Thompson, Ed Harris and Vincent Cassel. The legendary Anthony Hopkins appeared in the first two seasons.  Key Takeaways: There are a few ways to watch sci-fi series Westworld, including online streaming services HBO Max, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video.Using a VPN is the easiest way to watch Westworld on HBO Max U.S. when you’re traveling overseas. All you ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Arjun Ruparelia; China’s famed Great Firewall blocks many websites and apps, from Google to Facebook. It has its own internet ecosystem, where people use WeChat instead of WhatsApp, Youku instead of YouTube and iQiyi instead of Netflix. These Chinese services have geoblocks that won’t allow access if you’re outside China. If that’s what you want, you need to know how to get a Chinese IP address. Key Takeaways: You can get a China IP address using a VPN and get access to geoblocked Chinese content.The best VPN to get a China IP is CyberGhost. However, if you ... Read More

Feed: Planet NoSQL. Author: Keshav Murthy. Oracle DBAs work with physical clusters, machines, instances, storage systems, disks, etc. All of Oracles users, developers and their applications work with logical entities: databases, tables, rows, columns, partitions, users, data types.  There are a lot of similarities and some differences.  Let’s compare and contrast how this is done on Couchbase.Here’s the home page for the series: http://blog.planetnosql.com/2022/01/introduction-to-couchbase-for-oracle.htmlORACLE OrganizationFull list of Oracle schema objects are listed here. A database instance can have many databases; A databases many schema; A schema many tables, indexes, functions, etc.COUCHBASE OrganizationA Couchbase instance can have many buckets; A bucket can ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Ronan Harrington. Setup Loading the R libraries and data set. # Loading libraries library(geomtextpath) # For adding text to ggplot2 curves library(tidytuesdayR) # For loading data set library(ggbeeswarm) # For creating a beeswarm plot library(tidyverse) # For the ggplot2, dplyr libraries library(gganimate) # For plot animation library(ggthemes) # For more ggplot2 themes library(viridis) # For plot themes # Loading data set tt <- tt_load("2022-01-11") Downloading file 1 of 2: `colony.csv` Downloading file 2 of 2: `stressor.csv` Data wrangling In this section, the Bee Colony data is wrangled into two tidy sets: tidied_colony_counts_overall contains quarterly colony counts for ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Traci Curran. Organizations initiate data migration projects for several reasons. They might need to overhaul an entire system, upgrade databases, establish a new data warehouse, support a cloud migration roadmap, or merge new data from an acquisition or other source. Data migration is also necessary when deploying another system that resides next to incumbent applications. Regardless of the exact purpose for data migration, the goal is generally to enhance business performance and competitiveness.Achieving your migration goals can be difficult. But with a solid data migration strategy and implementation approach and the right set of tools, you will ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. And why is it better than a Data Lake or an Analytics Hub? In the opening installment of this blog series—Data Lakes, Data Warehouses and Data Hubs: Do we need another choice?  I explore why simply migrating these on-prem data integration, management, and analytics platforms to the Cloud does not fully address modern data analytics needs. In comparing these three platforms, it becomes clear that while all of them meet certain critical needs, none of them meet the needs of business end-users without significant support from IT. What we in fact need is a platform ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. In this third and last part of the series on Actian Vector in Hadoop (VectorH), we will cover how the VectorH file format supports the performance and efficiency of our data analytics platform to accelerate business insights, as well as some of the other enterprise features that can help businesses move their Hadoop applications into production. Part one of this series showed the huge performance advantages VectorH has over other SQL on Hadoop alternatives, while part two explored the benefits of the richer implementation of SQL and the ability to perform data updates in VectorH.The ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. Saying that the current business climate and market conditions are tough is about as much an understatement as saying a Banana Slug is not terribly fast. Making the right decisions too slowly or wrong decisions too quickly can have equally adverse outcomes.In certain industries such as Retail, Travel, and Hospitality or for smaller businesses without the liquidity or significant credit lines, the COVID-19 pandemic has produced an epidemic of financial hardship, regardless of company size or industry.  The only logical approach is to make the best decisions you can with the information you have.  In ... Read More