Tag: Azure

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Mark Needham. Hi everyone, If you celebrate Thanksgiving I hope you had a good (but presumably quieter!) one this year. We’re almost at the end of our latest national lockdown in the UK, so we’ll soon be allowed to meet some people again. Anyway…​on with the content. Will Lyon gets us started this week with a video showing us how to use the new JSON Bolt serialisation format. Rik Van Bruggen analyses his Spotify playlist, Hantsy shows us how to test Spring Data Neo4j components, and there’s a Neo4j 4.x ready version of the ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Dario Radečić. Business Intelligence (BI) is used to transform data into actionable insights that provide value to an organization and help achieve its business goals. Reports and dashboards are go-to approaches for modern-day business intelligence tools. At Appsilon, we are big advocates of R and R Shiny, but we also have significant experience with business intelligence tools. Besides, coding custom solutions from scratch (or coding in general) isn’t always the right solution, especially for simple tasks. The custom-built BI solutions have their place, but more on that towards the end of the article. Are you an Excel ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksandar Kochovski; Data has become a currency in the modern world, and everyone is out to get your personal information. That’s the case whether it’s your internet service provider (ISP) tracking your online activity, a Silicon Valley giant farming your search information or a nosy government agency looking for suspicious activities. Zero-knowledge cloud storage can help keep your sensitive files away from prying eyes. Zero-knowledge encryption is a way of encrypting your data where only you have access to your encryption key, so no one else can decode it. When it comes to storing files online, zero-knowledge ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . With the availability of virtual machine images for This is the region where you should deploy your VMs. To deploy an SSAS VM, go to Azure Marketplace (search for SQL Server 2019 Analysis Services if necessary) and click Get it now, and then Continue to switch to the SSAS 2019 provisioning page in the Azure portal. However, before you lift and shift your SSAS and SSRS servers to Azure VMs, make sure the network infrastructure and Active Directory topology facilitates this migration. Most importantly, SSAS requires Windows authentication, which ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Christian Abeln. Companies that work with manufacturing and distribution need to be able to run key business processes 24/7, without interruption, and at scale. Challenges arise with unreliable connections or network latency when business processes compete for the same system resources when peak scale is required, or during periodic or regular maintenance for different regions, across time zones, or to meet different scheduling requirements. The ability to execute daily mission-critical processes must be agnostic to these situations.Cloud and edge scale units enable companies to execute mission-critical manufacturing and warehouse processes without interruptions. This functionality ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Noelle Walsh. Earlier this year, we made a commitment to shift to 100 percent renewable energy supply in our buildings and datacenters by 2025. On this journey, we recognize that how we track our progress is just as important as how we get there. Today, we are announcing that Microsoft will be the first hyperscale cloud provider to track hourly energy consumption and renewable energy matching in a commercial product using the Vattenfall 24/7 Matching solution for our new datacenter regions in Sweden, which will be available in 2021. Vattenfall and Microsoft are also announcing ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; Want the very best Matillion ETL experience? Each new version of Matillion ETL is better than the last. Make sure you are on the latest version to take advantage of the new features, new components, and improvements. In this blog, find out about the new components, features, and improvements introduced in Matillion ETL v1.50.  New and updated data source components Intercom Output component (New)Intercom is a customer relationship platform that allows companies to interact with their customers within their SaaS products. With this release, you are now able to extract and load data from Intercom with the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Lucia Stanham. A need for hybrid and multicloud strategies for financial services The financial services industry is a dynamic space that is constantly testing and pushing novel use cases of information technology. Many of its members must balance immense demands—from the pressures to unlock continuous innovation in a landscape with cloud-native entrants, to responding to unexpected surges in demand and extend services to new regions—all while managing risk and combatting financial crime. At the same time, financial regulations are also constantly evolving. In the face of the current pandemic, we have seen our customers accelerate ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Xema Pathak. It is imperative to monitor the health of your virtual machine. But how much time do you spend reviewing each metric and alert to monitor the health of a virtual machine? We are announcing the preview of Azure Monitor for virtual machines guest health feature that monitors the health of your virtual machines and fires an alert when any parameter being monitored is outside the acceptable range. This feature provides you: A simple experience to monitor the overall health of your virtual machine. Out-of-the-box health monitors based on key VM metrics to ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Lindsay Marshall. You look to the cloud for several reasons – to meet your cloud-first strategy, for scalability or to adapt quickly to changing business demands. Maybe all three.   Perhaps you need offerings to be available in various regions, or to reduce application response time and improve latency problems. Perhaps regulatory and compliance constraints are limiting (or mandating) the physical locations where your data can be stored and transmitted. This is why having a global data footprint is beneficial.  An important partnership for modern managed services   Managed services enable you to better address geographical constraints while staying on current software releases, improving the efficiency and dependability of your software, as well as freeing your IT staff to work on more strategic projects.    In June, 2020, SAS announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft .  An important aspect of our partnership is the ability to migrate and ... Read More