Tag: AD

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Katherine Taylor. For the past few months, I’ve somewhat obsessively tracked COVID-19 developments – watching as we chip away at the uncertainty of this novel virus. I’m fascinated by the process of moving from total uncertainty to a point where this pandemic is understood and solved. I’m a risk analyst, so it’s my nature to focus on uncertainty. I measure uncertainty, and on good days I even reduce uncertainty. I always considered risk analytics forward-looking – because what’s uncertain is the future. But it wasn’t until this crisis that I realized it’s really experience, or what ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Brendan Burns. I want to congratulate the HashiCorp and Microsoft Azure teams on the general availability of HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure. This is a first-of-a-kind achievement for HashiCorp running a cloud-based service. Within Azure, we have a deep commitment to build a platform where anyone from startups to large-scale enterprises can deliver reliable, compelling services that augment the Azure platform and benefit our customers. Throughout the process of bringing this service to production-grade availability, the HashiCorp team has been an awesome partner. We learned a lot together and I’m grateful for the strength ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Will Ellis. How often do you hear people use the terms “artificial intelligence” and “machine learning” interchangeably? The two are definitely related, and machine learning is actually a subset of artificial intelligence.However, as a greater number of businesses begin offering “intelligent” solutions, it becomes more vital than ever before to differentiate between these two concepts. After all, you may find yourself giving a presentation or speaking with someone who specializes in one of these fields, and you want to know what you’re talking about.From cancer screenings to climate change, there are numerous applications for ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Mike Gilliland. Everyone is familiar with The Confidence Man. This person can spout any sort of nonsense and easily demonstrable lies, and yet 40% of the people still believe him. The Confidence Man exposes a curious characteristic about human behavior: If you make your assertions with extreme confidence, no matter how obviously false or absurd, about 40% of people will believe you. I observed this myself many years ago, falling under the spell of a youngish consulting director as he swatted away hardball questions, no matter how tough or technical, from a seasoned IT management team ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. In the first post of this series, Federating access to your Amazon Redshift cluster with Active Directory: Part 1, you set up Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) based authentication and tested the SAML federation using a web browser.In Part 2, you learn to set up an Amazon Redshift cluster and use federated authentication with AD FS to connect from a JDBC SQL client tool. You follow a detailed step-by-step process of using Amazon Redshift database authentication to simplify the credential management of database users and reuse what ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Many customers request detailed steps to set up federated single sign-on (SSO) using Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) for Amazon Redshift. In this two-part series, you will find detailed steps to achieve federated SSO using AD FS.Part 1 contains steps to set up a Windows 2016 domain controller and AD FS and test SSO to the AWS Management Console using a web browser. Part 2 provides detailed steps to use the AD FS server you set up in Part1 to authenticate from SQL Workbench/J using a JDBC connection. Amazon Redshift supports user sign-on ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon RDS for SQL Server expands support for Windows authentication using the AWS Managed Microsoft AD service in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS IoT Analytics is a fully-managed service that makes it easy to run sophisticated analytics on massive volumes of IoT data without having to worry about the cost and complexity typically required to build an analytics platform. You can setup the service to collect only the data you need from your devices, apply mathematical transforms to process the data, and enrich the data with device-specific metadata such as device type and location before storing the processed data in a time-series data store for analysis. Then, you can analyze the processed data by running ad hoc or scheduled ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Everybody likes entertainment, and we all like it even better when it’s free. That’s where torrents come in: this peer-to-peer distribution system (also known as P2P) is all about sharing files between users, often illegally. We have a guide that goes over all the ins and outs of torrenting if you’re interested, but in this piece we’ll show you where to download torrents using the best torrent sites. Before we get to any of that, though, know that whatever you do, you should use a VPN when file sharing, or you run the risk of ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Shane Johnson. MariaDB Platform X5 is the culmination of years of work and planning. Long before the initial release of MariaDB Platform, even before the first releases of its predecessors MariaDB TX and MariaDB AX, we envisioned an enterprise open source database solution capable of handling any workload at any scale.MariaDB Platform X3 integrated MariaDB ColumnStore to add distributed, columnar storage and processing for interactive, ad hoc analytics on billions of rows. MariaDB Platform X4 fully integrated ColumnStore, replacing a complex change-data-capture process with standard replication to better support smart transactions (i.e., hybrid transactional/analytical processing or ... Read More