Tag: Architecture

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Chandrika Shankarnarayan. Today we’re pleased to announce two key capabilities that Azure Time Series Insights will be delivering later this year: A cost-effective long-term storage that enables a cloud-based solution to trend years’ worth of time series data pivoted on devices/tags.  A device-based (also known industry-wide as “tag-based”) user experience backed by a time series model to contextualize raw time series data with device metadata and domain hierarchies. Additionally, Time Series Insights will be integrating with advanced machine learning and analytics tools like Spark and Jupyter notebooks to help customers tackle time series data challenges ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. In December 2016, we launched the Outbound Network Access functionality for Amazon RDS for Oracle, enabling customers to use their RDS for Oracle database instances to communicate with external web endpoints using the utl_http and utl tcp packages, and sending emails through utl_smtp. We extended the functionality by adding the option of using custom DNS servers, allowing such outbound network accesses to make use of any DNS server a customer chooses to use. These releases enabled HTTP, TCP and SMTP communication originating out of RDS for Oracle instances – limited to non-secure (non-SSL) mediums.To overcome the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Erich Barnstedt. Industrial IoT is the largest IoT opportunity. At Microsoft, we serve this vertical by offering an Industrial IoT Cloud Platform Reference Architecture, which we have conveniently bundled into an open-source Azure IoT Suite solution called Connected Factory and launched it at HMI 2017 a year ago. Since then, we continued our collaboration with the OPC Foundation, the non-profit organization developing the OPC UA Industrial Interoperability Standard, and added many new open-source contributions to their Github page, further extending our lead as the largest contributor of open-source software to the OPC Foundation by a ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Facebook’s data woes continue to dominate the headlines and further highlight the importance of having an enterprise-wide view of data assets. The high-profile case is somewhat different than other prominent data scandals as it wasn’t a “breach,” per se. But questions of negligence persist, and in all cases, data governance is an issue. This week, the Wall Street Journal ran a story titled “Companies Should Beware Public’s Rising Anxiety Over Data.” It discusses an IBM poll of 10,000 consumers in which 78% of U.S. respondents say a company’s ability to ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Geir Hoydalsvik; We proudly announce General Availability of MySQL 8.0. Download now! MySQL 8.0 is an extremely exciting new version of the world’s most popular open source database with improvements across the board. Some key enhancements include: SQL Window functions, Common Table Expressions, NOWAIT and SKIP LOCKED, Descending Indexes, Grouping, Regular Expressions, Character Sets, Cost Model, and Histograms. JSON Extended syntax, new functions, improved sorting, and partial updates. With JSON table functions you can use the SQL machinery for JSON data. GIS Geography support. Spatial Reference Systems (SRS), as well as SRS aware spatial datatypes,  spatial ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Holden Karau, Alena Hall. Light painting (source: Paul Carmona on Unsplash) Check out the Evolutionary Architecture sessions at OSCON, July 16-19, 2018, in Portland. Hurry—best price ends April 20. Do you want to try out a new version of Apache Spark without waiting around for the entire release process? Does running alpha-quality software sound like fun? Does setting up a test cluster sound like work? This is the blog post for you, my friend! We will help you deploy code that hasn't even been reviewed yet (if that is the adventure you seek). If ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Vorhies. Summary: Deep Learning, based on deep neural nets is launching a thousand ventures but leaving tens of thousands behind.  Transfer Learning (TL), a method of reusing previously trained deep neural nets promises to make these applications available to everyone, even those with very little labeled data. Deep Learning, based on deep neural nets is launching a thousand ventures but leaving tens of thousands behind.  The broad problems with DNNs are well known. Complexity leading to extended time to success and an abnormally high outright failure rate. Extremely large quantities ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: business-science.io - Articles. Time series prediction (forecasting) has experienced dramatic improvements in predictive accuracy as a result of the data science machine learning and deep learning evolution. As these ML/DL tools have evolved, businesses and financial institutions are now able to forecast better by applying these new technologies to solve old problems. In this article, we showcase the use of a special type of Deep Learning model called an LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory), which is useful for problems involving sequences with autocorrelation. We analyze a famous historical data set called “sunspots” (a sunspot is a solar phenomenon ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Anupam Vij. This blog post was co-authored by JR Mayberry, Principal PM Manager, Azure Networking. Today we are excited to announce the general availability of the Azure DDoS Protection Standard service in all public cloud regions. This service is integrated with Azure Virtual Networks (VNet) and provides protection and defense for Azure resources against the impacts of DDoS attacks. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are intended to disrupt a service by exhausting its resources (e.g., bandwidth, memory). DDoS attacks are one of the top availability and security concerns voiced by customers moving their applications ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. Do you think it’s more feasible to build a new database entirely from scratch, or optimize the gold-standard analytics database—with over 700 patents already baked in—to run in public cloud infrastructures? The latest marketing hype from Snowflake is, “we are built for the cloud”. Their narrative is heavy on cloud and light on analytics. Snowflake’s basic SQL functionality limits them to providing basic reporting and descriptive analytics. Most of the benefits they tout from their “cloudiness” are based on fundamental public cloud economies of scale available to all vendors, not on any ... Read More