Tag: authentication

Feed: What's New. “Face detection” tries to answer the question: is there a face in this picture? In real world images, various aspects can impact a system’s ability to detect faces with high accuracy: pose variations caused by head movement and/or camera movements, occlusion due to foreground or background objects (faces covered by hats, hair, hands, or another person), illumination variations such as low contrast and shadows, or bright lighting leading to washed out faces, low quality and resolution leading to noisy and blurry faces, and distortion from cameras and lenses themselves. These issues manifest as both missed detections (a ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Getting started with AWS Transfer for SFTP (AWS SFTP) is simple. Create an SFTP server and map your domain to the server endpoint, select authentication for your SFTP clients using service-managed identities, or integrate your own identity provider, and select your Amazon S3 buckets to store the transferred data. Your existing users can continue to operate with their existing SFTP clients or applications. Data uploaded or downloaded using SFTP is available in your Amazon S3 bucket, and can be used for archiving or processing in AWS. With AWS SFTP, you pay only for the use of the ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Password managers are one of the best ways for individuals to increase their online security without sacrificing their browsing experience. Businesses can also benefit from the security tools because they help prevent productivity loss from forgotten passwords and the unnecessary IT of costs managing them. In this guide to the best password manager for small business, we’re going to give you the five best options on the market. We’ll tell you a few reasons why we like each option for business and in general. If you’ve read any of our password manager guides, it should ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Baiju NT. The rapidly evolving current age of business affords many opportunities unavailable in the past, but it is not without its caveats. Chief among these is that those not heavily interested in keeping up to date with the most recent developments can miss some of the most significant steps which can help modern businesses operate as smoothly as possible. Since this will place those businesses behind in a competitive environment, both in terms of efficiency and security, it’s important to understand these weaknesses so the downstream effects can be mitigated in the future ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Anyone running a database in a production environment with over a hundred users should seriously consider employing a connection pooler to keep resource usage under control. PgBouncer is one such tool, and it’s great because it’s lightweight and yet has a handful of nifty features for DBAs that have very specific needs. One of these nifty features that I want to share about is the auth_user and auth_query combo that serves as an alternative to the default authentication process that uses userlist.txt “What’s wrong with userlist.txt” you may ask. For starters, it makes user/role administration a little ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; There are many services that can backup your data, and, in this article, we’ll take a look at two possibilities. We’re going to compare the pairing of CloudBerry Backup with Amazon S3 vs. Carbonite and see which comes out on top. We chose Amazon S3 because it has a global network of servers, enabling users to reach fast speeds. Its pricing scheme is complicated, but the service isn’t expensive and charges you per gigabyte. That means you can set the size of your storage the way you want. You can find more information about the ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: George Vetticaden. With the release of Hortonworks Streams Messaging Manager (SMM) this year, we have focused on helping DevOps and Platform teams cure their Kafka Blindness. The Hortonworks product and engineering teams continue to invest in building powerful new capabilities in SMM with new upcoming features like alerting and topic lifecycle management. In addition to the SMM investments, the team has also been focusing on the needs of application and BI developer personas to help them be more successful implementing different use cases where Kafka is key component of the application architecture. To this ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Murali Ramasami. This blog was co-authored by Ryan Peterson, Head of Global Data Segment at AWS . Central to empowering businesses to deliver the right data in the right environment to power the right use case is the ability for location-agnostic, secure replication by encapsulating and copying data seamlessly across physical private storage and public cloud environments. Hortonworks’ Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM), an extensible service built on the Hortonworks DataPlane Platform (DPS) provides a complete solution to replicate HDFS, Hive data, metadata and security policies between on-premises and Amazon S3. This data movement enables ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: HowToForge; phpMyAdmin is a free and open source administration tool for MySQL and MariaDB. phpMyAdmin is a web-based tool that allows you to easily manage MySQL or MariaDB databases. You can perform administration tasks such as creating, editing, or deleting databases, import and export database backups, run searches and managing users and permissions using phpMyAdmin. Features Multi-language support. Import data from CSV and SQL. Provide live charts to monitor MySQL server activity like connections, processes, CPU/memory usage, etc. Searching globally in a database or a subset of it. Simple and easy to use web interface. Export ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Andrew Hewitt. Our recently released evaluation, “The Forrester Wave™: Unified Endpoint Management, Q4 2018,” uses 28 criteria to evaluate the top 12 unified endpoint management (UEM) solutions on the market today. This was the first year that Forrester evaluated the UEM market, which is an evolution of enterprise mobility management (EMM). Organizations looking to improve employee experience and simplify management can use UEM to solve many of the traditional end-user computing challenges such as device diversity, legacy app distribution, multiple passwords, and cybersecurity threats. UEM addresses these issues by providing: A single console for managing traditional and mobile endpoints and ... Read More