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Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. In order to further support the millions of worldwide businesses running Java in production, Oracle today announced Java SE Subscription, a new subscription model that covers all Java SE licensing and support needs. Java SE Subscription removes enterprise boardroom concerns around mission critical, timely, software performance, stability and security updates. Java SE Subscription complements Oracle’s long-standing and continued free Java SE releases and stewardship of the OpenJDK ecosystem where Oracle now produces open source OpenJDK binaries, enabling developers and organizations that do not need commercial support or enterprise management tools. Java SE Subscription provides commercial ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: lakshmi yarlagadda. Over the past decade, we have seen a shift towards virtualization, a stepping stone to complete cloud utilization. However, even by leveraging virtualization, you still need the appropriate building blocks for a private cloud environment. This involves going beyond simply virtualizingcompute and other central data center subsystems (i.e., network and storage), and requires you to enable flexible APIs in order to automate resource provisioning and orchestration. 1 Open source Some say that OpenStackis the largest open source project ever. It combines computing, networking, and storage subsystems in layers via APIs within ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Educate program, today announced a Cloud Computing specialization as part of its Information Systems Technology (IST) Associate of Applied Science degree starting in Fall 2018. The program will be one of the first cloud computing degrees in the nation offered by a community college.The two-year IST Cloud Computing degree program is built to address the high concentration of tech employers in the Northern Virginia region and the demand for employees with cloud computing skills. “Cloud and distributed computing” has ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Dmitry Kisler. Even though the libraries for R from Python, or Python from R code execution existed since years and despite of a recent announcement of Ursa Labs foundation by Wes McKinney who is aiming to join forces with RStudio foundation, Hadley Wickham in particularly, (find more here) to improve data scientists workflow and unify libraries to be used not only in Python, but in any programming language used by data scientists, some data professionals are still very strict on the language to be used for ANN models limiting their dev. environment exclusively to Python. As a ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Now in preview Azure Blob Storage lifecycle management in public preview - Both Blob-Level Tiering and Archive Storage help you optimize storage performance and cost. Blob-Level Tiering enables you to transition blobs between the Hot, Cool, and Archive tiers without moving data between accounts. In response to customer feedback, you can now automate blob tiering and retention with lifecycle management policies. Azure Blob Storage lifecycle management offers a rich, rule-based policy which you can use to transition your data to the best access tier and to expire data at the end of its ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. We are excited to announce that AWS EdStart, a program designed to help startup educational technology (EdTech) companies build teaching and learning solutions on the AWS Cloud, is now available to our EdTech customers in India by AISPL*. This announcement follows the program’s launch in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa in April.Apply today Startups in India can now apply to join AWS EdStart if they are less than five years old and generate less than $10M USD in annual revenue. Applications should include a plan for an innovative solution for ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Xiaochen Wu. We are delighted to announce the general availability (GA) of Azure SQL Data Sync! Azure SQL Data Sync allows you to synchronize data between Azure SQL Database and any other SQL endpoints unidirectionally or bidirectionally. It enables hybrid SQL deployment and allows local data access from both Azure and on-premises application. It also allows you to deploy your data applications globally with a local copy of data in each region, and keep data synchronized across all the regions. It will significantly improve the application response time and reliability by eliminating the impact of ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Below are the key highlights of the announcement.  - New eviction policy for caching improvements – Redis 4.0 now supports a frequency-based LFU (Least Frequently Used) eviction policy for evicting keys in addition to the existing time-based LRU (Least Recently Used) policy. The new LFU policy provides a better cache hit ratio by keeping frequently used data in-memory irrespective of the last time it was accessed.  - A new family of commands to understand memory utilization – Redis 4.0 introduces a new family of commands including MEMORY which provides better insights on Redis memory usage. The MEMORY ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: The Pythian Group; This Log Buffer edition covers Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL. Cloud: What DBAs need to know about Cloud Spanner, Part 1: Keys and indexes Introducing sole-tenant nodes for Google Compute Engine — when sharing isn’t an option A serverless solution for invoking AWS Lambda at a sub-minute frequency Amazon Aurora MySQL DBA Handbook – connection management Why you should bet on Azure for your infrastructure needs, today and in the future Oracle: The ability to make grants on objects in the database such as tables, views, procedures or others such as SELECT, DELETE, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Featuring Infrastructure-as-a-Service on Azure Why you should bet on Azure for your infrastructure needs, today and in the future - We are committed to providing the right infrastructure for every workload. Across our 50 Azure regions, you can pick from a broad array of virtual machines with varying CPU, GPU, Memory and disk configurations for your application needs. In this post on the Azure blog, Corey Sanders, Corporate Vice President, Azure, shares a few key reasons you should bet on Azure for your infrastructure needs and announces some new capabilities. In addition, these ... Read More