Tag: Availability

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. © Laurenz Albe 2021PostgreSQL commit ee28cacf61 has added new options for the target_session_attrs connection parameter. This article explores how the new options can be used to simplify high availability and horizontal scaling solutions.What is target_session_attrs?The PostgreSQL client shared library libpq has support for connection strings to more than one database server: psql 'host=server1.my.org,server2.my.org port=5432,5432 dbname=mydb user=myself' In the URL connection string format, that would look like psql 'postgresql://myself@server1.my.org:5432,server2.my.org:5432/mydb' Then the client will first try to connect to server1.my.org, and if it cannot reach that server, it will try to connect to server2.my.org.This is useful in combination with ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Mariann McDonagh. Modern data governance is a strategic, ongoing and collaborative practice that enables organizations to discover and track their data, understand what it means within a business context, and maximize its security, quality and value.It is the foundation for regulatory compliance and de-risking operations for competitive differentiation and growth. However, while digital transformation and other data-driven initiatives are desired outcomes, few organizations know what data they have or where it is, and they struggle to integrate known data in various formats and numerous systems – especially if they don’t have a ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Rafael Cordon. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ministerio de Educación de Guatemala (the Guatemala Ministry of Education) made the decision to close public schools to mitigate the spread of the virus. The closing of schools gave the Ministry’s authorities the opportunity to implement new solutions to enable students, teachers, and parents to continue with the education experience. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner ITZ Data (AWS Advanced Consulting Partner / Government Competency), with support from UNICEF and the Canadian Embassy in Guatemala, helped the Ministry launch Mineduc Digital—the country’s first online platform where ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Customers in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region can now use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). Amazon EFS is a simple, serverless, set-and-forget elastic file system for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. It is built to scale on demand to petabytes without disrupting applications, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, eliminating the need to provision and manage capacity to accommodate growth. For more information, visit the Amazon EFS product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; Today marks the one-year anniversary of general availability for Matillion Data Loader. It’s been exciting to watch the growth of our first SaaS product and its adoption by Matillion customers. You’ve moved more than 350 billion rows of data for free! We’ve come a long way in a year and are excited for what’s coming this year. More on that in future blog posts. In the time since we first announced Matillion Data Loader, the pipeline business has grown and changed as well. To be frank, the data pipeline category has become commoditized. Connecting to a ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Farhad Jahangirov. Applications running on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack are ubiquitous—WordPress alone represents 38% of all content management systems. Other popular CMS applications such as Drupal and Joomla also run on LAMP as well as Moodle, a widely used learning management system (LMS). Because of the popularity of these applications, public sector organisations such as educational institutions should protect their business continuity by implementing disaster recovery (DR) solutions: policies, tools, and procedures to help the recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure and systems following a disaster. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Thousands of customers are building their data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). You can use AWS Lake Formation to build your data lakes easily—in a matter of days as opposed to months. However, there are still some difficult challenges to address with your data lakes: Supporting streaming updates and deletes in your data lakes, for example, database replication, and supporting privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA Achieving fine-grained secure sharing not only with table-level or column-level access control, but with row-level access control Optimizing the layout of various tables and files on ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Charlie Chase. Thanks to COVID-19, companies have experienced how challenging it can be to plan and maneuver their supply chains around an unforeseen disruption. While the pandemic was a once-in-a-lifetime event (we hope), the unfortunate truth is that less severe events have overwhelmed or undermined demand and supply planning in the past -- and will likely continue to do so. The biggest learning from this disruption? Legacy ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems are no longer up to the task of getting supply where it's needed in a timely and cost-effective manner. To achieve accurate forecasting and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Scott Van Vliet. Last year, we launched Azure Communication Services to help businesses reach customers—enabled by voice, video, text chat, and connections into short message service (SMS) and public switched telephone network (PSTN)—across applications, websites, and mobile platforms. Since launch, we have onboarded hundreds of customers and partners into preview across multiple industries and look forward to supporting more with general availability later this month. From retailers looking to enhance remote customer engagement, to banks and financial institutions needing to use mobile authentication and notification technologies, Azure Communication Services is making the development of intelligent, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rohan Kumar. For any organization to succeed in a world of unprecedented uncertainty, a new level of agility is required. Core to that agility is the ability to quickly gain insights from data at any scale, power ultra-low latency applications that deliver personalized experiences, and empower all users in an organization, regardless of size. This requires a computing platform that provides limitless scale, performance, and possibilities for what can be achieved with data. To help organizations achieve these limitless capabilities, we shared several announcements today at Microsoft Ignite: Unmatched analytics Our commitment to customers is ... Read More