Tag: Business

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Siddharth Deekshit. Today’s Q&A post covers an interview between Siddharth Deekshit, Program Manager, Microsoft Azure Site Recovery engineering and Quentin Drion, IT Director of Infrastructure and Operations, MSC. MSC is a global shipping and logistics business, our conversation focused on their organization’s journey with Azure Site Recovery (ASR). To learn more about achieving resilience in Azure, refer to this whitepaper. I wanted to start by understanding the transformation journey that MSC is going through, including consolidating on Azure. Can you talk about how Azure is helping you run your business today? We are a shipping ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. There are three different types of data models: conceptual, logical and physical, and each has a specific purpose.Conceptual Data Models: High-level, static business structures and concepts Logical Data Models: Entity types, data attributes and relationships between entities Physical Data Models: The internal schema database design An organization’s approach to data modeling will be influenced by its particular needs and the goals it is trying to reach, as explained here: But with the different types of data models, an organization benefits from using all three, depending on the information it wishes ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; 2017 was an exciting year for many people managing infrastructure and delivering software — from dealing with WannaCry to experimenting with or investing more in cloud or container infrastructure, and adopting DevOps practices.And it was a great year for Puppet and organizations using Puppet, thanks in no small part to many of you.But what will 2018 hold? Here are our predictions"In 2018 I think we are going to see more distributed systems and applications, leading us to smaller units of applications. Container workloads will be the norm in production with Kubernetes reaching the ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; At Puppet, our mission is to help our customers deliver better software, faster. This mission reminds me of of a blog post from my esteemed colleagues at Zugata who build performance management software for performance reviews and employee performance development. The quote begins: “Keeping up with today’s rapid speed of business has been no easy feat for organizations. This changing paradigm has required them to adapt in a way never seen before—calling into question stale processes and lagging systems that no longer match the pace of change. This holds especially true for a ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's note: Arik Hessendahl is a guest blogger covering PuppetConf.I’ve been a business journalist for more than 20 years, and I never get tired of the stories about how well-known companies are founded. It’s endlessly interesting how some of today’s most iconic brands and companies can trace their history to a single spark of thought in the mind of a founder. So it was with Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, who’s known for a small car company in Germany:“In the beginning, I looked around and could not find the car I'd been dreaming of: ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Managing complex IT systems is always a delicate balancing act for sysadmins — between getting the latest updates to take advantage of new features and bug fixes, as well as security updates, and keeping a stable system running without making any unnecessary changes. Add to this the often complex and time consuming change control procedures in place at many enterprises, and what develops is a situation where as long as there are no pressing problems, it is easier to leave production systems running the same versions of critical software until an upgrade is ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: pearl-chen; Data is everywhere, but using data to build modern applications that create business value is far from easy. That’s why IBM Cloud Pak for Data teamed up with MongoDB to accelerate the process from ingestion to insight. As IBM’s leading platform for data and AI, Cloud Pak for Data integrates seamlessly with MongoDB to help data scientists and developers quickly scale the ladder to AI.It’s no secret that developers love MongoDB. It features an intuitive document-based data model, leverages distributed systems to provide resiliency and scalability, and runs ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Peter McCarron, Sr. Manager, Partner Marketing at HashiCorpBy Paul Banks, Sr. Engineer, Consul at HashiCorpThe adoption of service mesh has been accelerated by the emergence of microservices. Organizations leverage orchestration tools, like HashiCorp Nomad or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) for deploying services, and then use a service mesh such as HashiCorp Consul or AWS App Mesh to manage the connections between them. These service mesh solutions provide a number of important capabilities, such as traffic management, secure connections with mTLS (mutual TLS authentication), and load balancing for managing services ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Katharine Marais; Amid the buzz surrounding AI (a Gartner survey in 2018 reports that “11% of marketing technology executives reported AI as their top choice as the technology that would have the most impact on their marketing efforts in the next five years”), business leaders may ask if AI (artificial intelligence) is really mature and valuable today for marketing and sales- and if so, how it can be tangibly implemented.  Table of Contents Is there such a thing as AI marketing? According to McKinsey & Co., AI does currently offer real value for marketing ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. Social relationships hold a wealth of information about your customers, employees, and suppliers that (if you have the tools to harness them) can provide you valuable insights about the factors that influence behaviors that ultimately impact your bottom line.  The challenge with analyzing and visualizing social relationships is that the underlying data doesn’t match well with the relational data structures that most data warehouses are designed around.  The use cases that your company needs to embrace to create competitive advantage are too complex for most relational databases to handle, and as a result, you may ... Read More