Tag: Architecture

Feed: Teradata Blog. BC vs. DR vs. HA  The terms Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) are very often used interchangeably. While they are somewhat related, they are not the same thing. Business Continuity refers to the ability to maintain business functionality in the case of an outage, planned or unplanned, while Disaster Recovery is more IT-centric and technical in nature and refers to the ability to recover a particular component that might support one or more business capabilities.    As an example, we might have a loading platform that provides operational data feeds at 15-minute intervals into a relational database platform. This relational database platform is used by a critical business dashboard to monitor some Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) used by Business Leadership. In this example the data loading platform, ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Much has been written recently about Modern Architecture.  It’s a very “lively” topic of discussion within our Ecosystem Architecture group and in discussions with our clients. A search on the term “Modern IT Architecture” results in 2+ billion hits.  Searching for “Modern Data Architecture” yields 890+ million hits…which helps a lot…problem solved!  There is a lot of debate about what Modern Architecture means and what components or capabilities constitutes such an architecture. However, two terms come up repeatedly in my survey of the literature and in client conversations and proposal requests. Those key concepts are simplicity and flexibility.  In ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Prasad Rao. By Prasad Rao, Partner Solution Architect at AWSBy Nikolay Bunev, Sr. Cloud Consultant at HeleCloudRunning workloads on the cloud can help customers reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) while increasing agility and scalability. When transforming their operations for the cloud, it’s imperative organizations understand cloud security controls and enable them to correctly protect and secure their data. Within the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers are responsible for securing their workloads within the application layer. To help with this, AWS provides a variety of tools and features that ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Shane Johnson. This article first appeared in InfoWorld. It is reprinted with permission. © IDG Communications, Inc., 2020. All rights reserved How MariaDB achieves global scale with Xpand. Xpand is now available in MariaDB SkySQL adding distributed SQL for scalability and elasticity in the cloud. As information and processing needs have grown, pain points such as performance and resiliency have necessitated new solutions. Databases need to maintain ACID compliance and consistency, provide high availability and high performance, and handle massive workloads without becoming a drain on resources. Sharding has offered a solution, but for many companies ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. In part one of this blog series, we covered some of the basic definitions and differences between Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery vs. High Availability and talked about Active/Active and the varying degrees of Active/Standby for protecting your systems. Now I want to focus in on how you determine what the most appropriate level of protection is for your business applications and the supporting data.  One of the most common things I hear is that we need to protect the entire EDW Platform at the same level. In my experience, all data is NOT equal. Some data is required for ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Erik Brandsberg. By Erik Brandsberg, CTO at Heimdall DataBy Roneel Kumar, Database Solutions Architect at AWSAs databases are often a key component of internet infrastructure, IT departments may be challenged by poor connection management from the application. There are three areas where connection management can be an issue: CPU overhead when an application “thrashes” connections rapidly by opening, closing, and authenticating connections.. Memory overhead when applications hold open long-lived connections that are often idle, which would be better used as block cache or may require a larger instance size than CPU requirements dictate.. Noisy ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Ashish Kathapurkar. By Ashish Kathapurkar, Sr. Partner Development Manager, SaaS at AWSOne of the fundamental changes in adopting a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model is moving from a product delivery to a service-oriented mindset. SaaS provides a 24×7 digital channel between you and the end customers. IDC’s SaaSPath 2020 survey polled 1,915 organizations across five continents to collect information on SaaS adoption and vendor preferences. It found that 1) data security, 2) value for price, and 3) ease of integrations as the top SaaS vendor attributes that buyers look at when evaluating a SaaS solution ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Customer origins with processes that require more compute per request, such as just-in-time packaging, can be sensitive to the number of origin fetches. CloudFront already provides Regional Edge Caches at no additional cost to reduce the operational burden on your origins. Now, you can further minimize your origin’s load by enabling Origin Shield in your CloudFront Origin Settings with just two clicks. To configure Origin Shield, choose the Regional Edge Cache closest to your origin to become your Origin Shield Region. All Origin Shield Regions are built using a highly-available architecture that spans several Availability Zones and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Reid Tatoris. By Reid Tatoris, Product Management Lead, Anti-DDoS at AWSBy Shawn Brady, Global Partner Lead, Edge Services at AWSBy Istvan Polay, EMEA Partner Lead, Edge Services at AWSPerimeter protection services from Amazon Web Services (AWS) secure customers’ applications and origin infrastructure from cyber security attacks such as Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS), SQL Injection, or Cross-Site Scripting. This suite of services includes AWS Shield, AWS WAF, and AWS Firewall Manager and offers extended visibility and access to the AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT). AWS services operate on the Shared Responsibility Model that ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; The world of data management is changing. In the age of big data, businesses must cope with an increasing amount of data that’s coming from a growing number of applications. There’s enormous value to be gained from technologies such as AI and machine learning, but you have to have the data platform to support them. What can you do to transform your business’s existing information management systems into a modern data management platform? Read on.What is modern data management?There’s been an enormous shift in data management technologies and practices over the past several years. Older ... Read More