Tag: Azure

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Steve Naventi. New Enterprise tiers, fully managed by Microsoft, deliver active geo-replication, up to 99.999% availability, Redis on Flash, and expanded use cases for enterprise customers Mountain View, March 2, 2021—Today at Microsoft Ignite, Redis Labs announced the general availability of Redis Enterprise-powered tiers on Azure Cache for Redis, enabling companies to more effectively optimize for low-latency data access in their most critical applications. The Enterprise tiers are fully managed by Microsoft and are the result of a year-long collaboration between the companies to provide the most highly available, resilient, scalable, and extensible Redis service to ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Amiram Mizne. This morning, Microsoft and Redis Labs jointly announced the general availability of Azure Cache for Redis, Enterprise tiers. The service has been in public preview since last October, and is already serving customers with production Redis workloads. The GA release is now enhanced with previews of active geo-replication (with up to 99.999% availability), and disk persistence with recovery while being rolled out to an increasing number of Azure regions.  Enterprise tiers: highlights The following Enterprise and Flash tier capabilities are now generally available: Open source Redis 6.0: faster, more secure, and easier to useZone ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Ashley Lozito; Data migration — the process of selecting, preparing, extracting, and transforming data, then permanently transferring it from one computer storage system to another — is an important step in breaking down silos and giving companies a single view of data.To be truly data-led in every decision, enterprises need all data available to make decisions. But many businesses still lag behind. In a recent IDG survey, 40 percent of data professionals cited lack of visibility and control of data silos as a challenge when collaborating with business users.Data portability tops the list of platform requirements needed ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Steve Naventi. The shift toward online digital conferences has prompted Microsoft to reconvene Ignite about six months early this year. Scanning the data and analytics announcements, the overriding theme is of extending the reach of the portfolio of Azure data platforms.For data and analytics, the headlines on this go-round include a new Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra; support for a MongoDB 4.0 API in Azure Cosmos DB; the general availability of Azure Synapse Link for Cosmos DB; and some enhancements to Azure Cache for Redis offering. And Microsoft is introducing new tools for data warehouse ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are excited to announce the public preview of VNet connectivity for Power BI datasets. Protecting your data on the Microsoft cloud and ensuring secure and authorized access to this data has been our key focus. While Azure virtual networks (VNets) offer network isolation and security for your resources on the Microsoft cloud, this VNet connectivity feature enables secure outbound connectivity from Power BI to data sources within an Azure VNet. Please read Data insights without limit, security without compromise for an overview of other new Power BI security capabilities. Virtual ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . The Microsoft Power BI team’s mission is to help our customers drive a data culture where everyone can make better decisions with data. Power BI empowers every business user and business analyst to get amazing insights with AI infused experiences. With Power BI Premium, we enable business analysts to not only analyze and visualize their data, but to also build an end-to-end data platform through drag and drop experiences. Everything from ingesting and transforming data at scale, to building automated machine learning models, and analyzing massive volumes of data ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Fred Wurden. By Fred Wurden, General Manager, AWS Enterprise Engineering (Windows, VMware, RedHat, SAP, Benchmarking) AWS R5b.8xlarge delivers better performance at lower cost than Azure E64_32s_v4 for a SQL Server workload In this blog, we will review a recent benchmark that Principled Technologies published on 2/25. The benchmark found that an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R5b.8xlarge instance delivered better performance for a SQL Server workload at a lower cost when directly tested against an Azure E64_32s_v4 VM. Behind the study: Understanding how SQL Server performed better, for a lower cost with an AWS ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . The growing numbers of European businesses leveraging hybrid multicloud environments are often watching costs spiral beyond expectations and sooner rather than later must face the reality that they are spawning new types of data silos.During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, organisations were focused foremost on enabling remote workers and quickly spinning up services in the cloud to ensure continuing operations. Now, planning for a post-pandemic world, they are struggling to come to grips with the inefficiencies that can accompany use of multiple public clouds.Public cloud providers tend to have specific strengths for particular workloads, ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Luis. The Time-Series ecosystem Time-series analysis has been studied for more than a hundred years, however, the extraordinary growth of data available from numerous sources and more frequent growth of data alongside the growth of computer power (GPU & Multicore) makes the analysis of large-scale time-series data possible today in a way that was not previously practical. The use of time-series data has been traditionally linked to sectors where time is not just a metric but a primary axis, such as in finance, Industrial IoT, and energy. However, in the last ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Even with excellent business cloud storage and online backup platforms like Backblaze and Egnyte, a dedicated, physical server can do a lot for your small business. In addition to giving you control over how your data is stored, the best small business server should provide redundancy, expandability and upsides in security. We’ve gathered five servers that do the trick for small business, and another two honorable mentions. It doesn’t matter if you need a basic file server or a machine-learning powerhouse; there’s an option for you here. Key Takeaways: Small business servers can be expensive, ... Read More