Tag: Architecture

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Andy Katz. Brittany Doncaster, Solutions Architect Business continuity is important for building mission-critical workloads on AWS. As an AWS customer, you might define recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO) for different tier applications in your business. After the RPO and RTO requirements are defined, it is up to your architects to determine how to meet those requirements. You probably store persistent data in Amazon EBS volumes, which live within a single Availability Zone. And, following best practices, you take snapshots of your EBS volumes to back up the data on Amazon S3, ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Ruchir Puri. This is a keynote from the Artificial Intelligence Conference in San Francisco 2017. See other highlights from the event. This keynote was sponsored by IBM Watson. Article image: Architecture (source: Pixabay) ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Vinay Shukla. Our customers increasingly leverage Data Science, and Machine Learning to solve complex predictive analytics problem. A few examples of these problems are churn prediction, predictive maintenance, image classification, and entity matching. While everyone wants to predict the future, truly leveraging Data Science for Predictive Analytics remains the domain of a select few. To expand the reach of Data Science, the Modern Data Architecture (MDA) needs to address the following 4 requirements: Enable Apps to consume predictions and become smarter Bring predictive analytics to the IOT Edge Become easier, more accurate & faster ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. Large prime numbers have been a topic of considerable research, for its own mathematical beauty, as well as to develop more powerful cryptographic applications and random number generators. In this article, we show how big data, statistical science (more specifically, pattern recognition) and the use of new efficient, distributed algorithms, could lead to an original research path to discover large primes. Here we also discuss new mathematical conjectures related to our methodology. Much of the focus so far has been on discovering raw large primes: Any time a new ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Renata Melnyk. Explore the AWS Competency Program: Helping Customers Identify Top AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners on AWS across Industries, Verticals, and Solutions Customers use AWS to meet a wide variety of their IT needs, and many customers leverage the AWS Partner Network (APN) to provide additional value. Are you looking to engage with an AWS Consulting Partner who can help you effectively migrate your applications to AWS? Are you a media firm hoping to identify an AWS Technology Partner solution that can help you render video footage in the cloud? Chances are, ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Carme Artigas. Ferris wheel (source: Skeeze via Pixabay) Check out Carme Artigas’ executive briefing “Analytics Centers of Excellence as a way to accelerate big data adoption by business” at the Strata Data Conference in Singapore, Dec. 5-7. Registration is now open. More than 10 years after big data emerged as a new technology paradigm, it is finally in a mature state and its business value throughout most industry sectors is established by a significant number of use cases. A couple of years ago, the discussion was still about how big data changed our way ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. The deadline to implement National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-171 is fast approaching. Beginning in January 2018, you may miss out on government funding that stipulates its implementation if you have not taken action.In 2015, NIST published Special Publication (SP) 800-171 – Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Non-federal Information Systems and Organizations – introducing the standards for non-federal entities, such as academic institutions working under a government contract. NIST 800-171 was meant to take the security controls from a larger NIST publication, NIST 800-53, and assist non-federal ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Bhanu Prakash. Azure HDInsight is the only fully-managed cloud Hadoop & Spark offering that gives you optimized open-source analytic clusters for Spark, Hive, MapReduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka, and Microsoft R Server backed by a 99.9% SLA. You can deploy these big data technologies and ISV applications as managed clusters with enterprise-level security and monitoring. Given the broad scope of open source technologies on big data, we have received many requests for a detailed guide around HDInsight. This post outlines the key areas covered by the guide and also outlines some other options for learning on ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Lu Niu, Peng Du, Zhenxiao Luo. Uber’s Presto architecture (source: Courtesy of Zhenxiao Luo) For more on efficient geospatial analysis, check out Zhenxiao Luo and Wei Yan’s session, “Geospatial big data analysis at Uber,” at the Strata NYC Data Conference in NYC, September 25-28, 2017. From determining the most convenient rider pickup points to predicting the fastest routes, Uber aims to use data-driven analytics to create seamless trip experiences. Within engineering, analytics inform decision-making processes across the board. One of the distinct challenges for Uber is analyzing geospatial big data. City locations, trips, and ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Nathan LeClaire. Traffic Light (source: Bertsz) Learn how to rewrite monoliths into microservices at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference, taking place in London Oct. 17-20. Use code ORM20 to save 20% on your conference pass (Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes). Microservices are small programs, each with a specific and narrow scope, that are glued together to produce what appears from the outside to be one coherent web application. This architectural style is used in contrast with a traditional "monolith" where every component and sub-routine of the application is bundled into one codebase and not separated ... Read More