Tag: announcement

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Lori Wizdo. I am still catching my breath. Adobe has agreed to acquire Marketo for $4.75 billion. The deal is the biggest in Adobe’s history, and a massive encore to the acquisition of Magento for a mere $1.7 billion in May. On the one hand, I find myself proud to be a B2B marketer — to think that helping folks like me be more successful is worth $4.75 billion. On the other hand, you’ve just gotta wonder about that number. My colleagues Joe Stanhope and Rusty Warner — both of whom know a lot about Adobe and ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Colin Charles; Colin Charles | September 21, 2018 |  Posted In: MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, open source databases, Percona Server for MongoDB, Percona XtraDB Cluster, PostgreSQL PREVIOUS POST Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. This week is clearly what I’d call a “MariaDB week” — plenty of announcements coming from MariaDB Corporation and MariaDB Foundation. It started with Alibaba Cloud and MariaDB Announce the Launch of ApsaraDB RDS for MariaDB TX, which makes Alibaba Cloud the first public cloud to offer the enterprise offering of MariaDB, MariaDB ... Read More

Feed: What's New. AWS Server Migration Service is an agentless service which makes it easier and faster for customers to migrate on-premises workloads to AWS from VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments. It allows customers to automate, schedule, and track incremental replications of live server volumes, making it easier to coordinate large-scale server migrations. Previously, the size of the individual data volume that could be migrated using Server Migration Service was capped at 4 TB. With this announcement, customers are able to surpass this limit and migrate larger volumes up to 16 TB.This capability exists in all AWS Regions where ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Mariann McDonagh. It’s been almost four months since the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect. While no fines have been issued yet, the Information Commissioner’s Office has received upwards of 500 calls per week since the May 25 effective date.However, the fine-free streak may be ending soon with British Airways (BA) as the first large company to pay a GDPR penalty because of a data breach. The hack at BA in August and early September lasted for more than two weeks, with intruders getting away with account numbers and personal ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Michael Hauss. Financial Services organizations regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC), Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and more are required to retain business-related communications in a Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) or immutable state that ensures they are non-erasable and non-modifiable for a specific retention interval. The immutable storage requirement is not limited to financial organizations but also applies to industries such as healthcare, insurance, media, public safety, and legal services. Today, we are excited to reveal the general availability ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: Nagapriya Tiruthani. New release of Hortonworks Data Platform is now available from IBM HDP 3.0 delivers new capabilities for the enterprise to enable agile application deployment, new machine learning/deep learning workloads, real-time database, & security and governance. It is a key component of the modern data architecture and can be deployed both on-premises and the cloud. Many of the new enhancements to HDP 3.0 are based on Apache Hadoop 3.1 and include containerization, GPU support, erasure coding and namenode federation. The new FASTER, SMARTER, HYBRID platform has a lot of innovation and improved usability to make ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Welcome to Azure DevOps The big news last week was the introduction of Azure DevOps, which represents the evolution of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). Azure DevOps is a set of five new services that can be used together as a unified product, independently as stand-alone services or in any combination: Azure Pipelines, Azure Boards, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, and Azure Artifacts. Azure Pipelines is a fully-managed CI/CD service that enables developers to continuously build, test, and deploy any type of app, to any platform or cloud, which is available with free, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Ella Ben-Tov. Earlier today, we announced the general availability (GA) of Video Indexer. This means that our customers can count on all the metadata goodness of Video Indexer to always be available for them to use when running their business. However, this GA is not the only Video Indexer announcement we have for you. In the time since we released Video Indexer to public preview in May 2018, we never stopped innovating and added a wealth of new capabilities to make Video Indexer more insightful and effective for your video and audio needs. Delightful experience ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Omar Khan. There’s a lot you can do with Azure. But whether you’re modernizing your IT environment, building next-generation apps, harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, or deploying any of a million other solutions, there are foundational habits that can help you succeed. On the Azure team, we spend a lot of time listening to our customers and understanding what makes them successful. We’ve started to compile a handful of routine activities that can help you get the most out of Azure. Stay on top of proven practice recommendations Highly effective Azure users understand that ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Jeremy Hollett. As Hurricane Florence continues its journey to the mainland, our thoughts are with those in its path. Please stay safe. We’re actively monitoring Azure infrastructure in the region. We at Microsoft have taken all precautions to protect our customers and our people. Our datacenters (US East, US East 2, and US Gov Virginia) have been reviewed internally and externally to ensure that we are prepared for this weather event. Our onsite teams are prepared to switch to generators if utility power is unavailable or unreliable. All our emergency operating procedures have been reviewed ... Read More