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Big Data architectures
Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. Over the last few years I have been involved in reviewing the architectures of various companies that are building or have built big data solutions. When I say “big data”, I’m referring to the incorporation of semi-structured data such as sensor data, device data, web logs, and social media. The architectures generally fall into four scenarios: Enterprise data warehouse augmentation This scenario uses an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) built on a RDBMS, but will extract data from the EDW and load it into a big data hub along with data from other sources that are deemed ... Read More
Analytics Platform System (APS) AU5 released
Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has just released an appliance update (AU5), which is sort of like a service pack, except that it includes many new features. Below is what is new in this release: The AU5 release offers customers greater Transact-SQL (T-SQL) compatibility to aid in migrations from SQL Server and other platforms as well as improved connectivity and integration with Hadoop. The AU5 release also includes support for faster data loading scenarios through both first party Microsoft and 3rd party tools. These features continue to ... Read More
My latest presentations
Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. I frequently present at user groups, and always try to create a brand new presentation to keep things interesting. We all know technology changes so quickly there is no shortage of topics! There is a list of all my presentations with slide decks and videos in some cases. Here are the new presentations I created the past few months: Implement SQL Server on an Azure VM This presentation is for those of you who are interested in moving your on-prem SQL Server databases and servers to Azure virtual machines (VM’s) in the cloud ... Read More
5 Ultra Effective Email Marketing Strategies to Push You to The Top of The Class

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. Back-to-school is the second largest retail holiday in the U.S, just behind the winter holidays. This year, it’s expected to rake in an unbelievable $828 billion! But here’s the problem. As email marketers, I know we all face that fear, especially during retail holiday seasons, where we ask ourselves, “is my email going to stand out against other brands?” With such fierce competition, I would be surprised if you are not thinking about this. So how can you implement truly effective email marketing strategies that work? Source Put to the test As ... Read More
Teradata Launches IoT Analytics Accelerators
Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. Teradata unveiled four powerful accelerators that will speed up the transformation of Internet of Things (IoT) data to actionable insight.“Sensor data is very messy, complex, and diverse so a lot of companies that are even mature from an analytics stand point find working with sensor data a whole other animal,” said Chad Meley, vice president of marketing.Teradata created “Analytics of Things Accelerators” (AoTAs) which are comprised of technology-agnostic intellectual property (IP) and professional services.These are approaches proven to reduce implementation cost and risk, accelerate time to value, and drive business returns far ... Read More
Percona Live Europe featured talk with Krzysztof Książek — MySQL Load Balancers – MaxScale, ProxySQL, HAProxy, MySQL Router & nginx
Feed: Planet MySQL. Author: MySQL Performance Blog. Dave Avery | August 25, 2016 | Posted In: MySQL, Percona Live PREVIOUS POST Welcome to the first Percona Live Europe featured talk with Percona Live Europe 2016: Amsterdam speakers! In this series of blogs, we’ll highlight some of the speakers that will be at this year’s conference. We’ll also discuss the technologies and outlooks of the speakers themselves. Make sure to read to the end to get a special Percona Live Europe registration bonus! In this Percona Live Europe featured talk, we’ll meet Krzysztof Książek, Senior Support Engineer at Severalnines AB. His talk will be on MySQL Load Balancers ... Read More
Real-time Operational Analytics in SQL Server 2016
Feed: Databasejournal.com - Feature Database Articles. Author: . Introduction Organizations have been focusing more and investing heavily in Analytics, to gain the knowledge required to make improvements or changes to enhance business. Analytics help organizations to remain competitive, optimize cost and resources by helping them study their past data (e.g. internal operational data and external data like social media, data from research or government organizations) to identify potential trends, help them in analyzing the effects of certain decisions or events (e.g. Ad campaign, offers on their products and services), and analyzing past/current data to predict outcomes (e.g. credit scoring). Though ... Read More
What is the right mix of competences for Data Scientists? First partial survey findings
Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Alessandro Piva. The proliferation of data and the huge potentialities for companies to turn data into valuable insights are increasing more and more the demand of Data Scientists. But what skills and educational background must a Data Scientist have? What is its positioning within the organization? What tools and programming languages does he/she mostly use? These are some of the questions that the Observatory for Big Data Analytics of Politecnico di Milano is investigating through an international survey submitted to Data Scientists: if you work with data in your company, please ... Read More
The Analytics Pyramid of Needs
Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Divya Parmar. In this day and age, you can’t go a day without hearing terms such as “data science,” “big data,” or “analytics.” These terms have been thrown around to apply to so many situations that the original meaning of these words is lost. So, what does it take for any organization to be successfully data-driven? Although analytics may seem complicated, the solution comes from simplicity. I believe it comes down to four things, as I’ve illustrated below: business need, clean data pipeline, basic reporting, and advanced analytics. Business Need At ... Read More
Weekly Digest, September 5
Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. Monday newsletter published by Data Science Central. Previous editions can be found here. The contribution flagged with a + is our selection for the picture of the week. Featured Resources and Technical Contributions Analyzing International Currency Network with DeDaL + Comparing classification algorithms: pluses and minuses 80+ Free Data Science Books 25 Java Machine Learning Tools & Libraries Essentials of Machine Learning Algorithms (with Python and R Codes) 8 Great Blogs Posted in the last 12 Months What Can Baby Names Tell Us About Our Narcissism Epidemic? Featured Articles ... Read More
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