Tag: Cloud

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: free range statistics - R. There was a flurry of activity in the last couple of days on Twitter and the blogosphere, most notably Thomas Lumley’s excellent Stats Chat, relating to whether there is a pro-government bias in surveys of New Zealand voting intention in the summer. As the analysis I’ve seen used my nzelect R package, this motivated me to update it for recent polls. The nzelect update nzelect hasn’t been updated on CRAN for some time, because about a year ago I made some major changes to the data model for the historical election results ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Household energy consumers around the globe supported by Oracle Utilities Opower Energy Efficiency programs have reached nearly 23-terawatt hours (TWh) in cumulative energy savings. This equates to enough energy to take every household in Osaka off the grid for a year or to charge every personal mobile phone in Japan for 74 years. The digital revolution has enabled consumers to better control everything from how they shop to how they ride to work. Until relatively recently, however, they lacked the ability to effectively manage their energy usage to lessen both their environmental footprint and monthly ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Richard Elberger. Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on the APN Blog. Read Part 1 >>By Johan Kraft, CEO at Percepio In a previous blog post, we learned how to get started with AWS IoT Core and Amazon FreeRTOS on the NXP OM40007 IoT kit using Percepio Tracealyzer for debugging support. In this post, we will dig deeper into Amazon FreeRTOS and take a closer look at the communication stack for AWS IoT Core. You will also learn how this communication can be analyzed using Percepio Tracealyzer, ensuring your system ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Ben Lorica, Paco Nathan. Honeycomb (source: Pixabay) Looking to leverage AI in your organization? Don't miss the Business Summit at the AI Conference in New York, April 15–18, 2019. Register before March 1 to save with Early Price. Download our new free report, "AI Adoption in the Enterprise," to discover how companies are planning and prioritizing AI projects in practice. Recently, O’Reilly Media published AI Adoption in the Enterprise: How Companies Are Planning and Prioritizing AI Projects in Practice, a report based on an industry survey. That was the third of three industry surveys conducted in ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Bojana Dobran, Senior Marketing Specialist at phoenixNAPThe growing need for business agility has redefined IT at the organizational and infrastructure levels. Building an agile IT architecture that can quickly adapt to business needs and support dynamic teams has become a critical focus in most modern organizations. An agile infrastructure is fast, robust, and easily scalable. Its creation usually involves collaboration between NetOps, DevOps, and SecOps teams—all of whom need to ensure the infrastructure is capable of handling bandwidth-heavy workloads, delivering uninterrupted connectivity, and transferring data quickly and safely. As a ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Companies continue to move business critical workloads and their most sensitive data to the cloud, yet security challenges remain, according to the second annual Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report 2019 released today. The report found that 72 percent of respondents feel the public cloud is more secure than what they can deliver in their own data center and are moving data to the cloud, but visibility gaps remain that can make it hard for businesses to understand where and how their critical data is handled in the cloud. The survey also found a projected ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Xavier Pouyat. Video Indexer is an Azure service designed to extract deep insights from video and audio files offline. This is to analyze a given media file already created in advance. However, for some use cases it's important to get the media insights from a live feed as quick as possible to unlock operational and other use cases pressed in time. For example, such rich metadata on a live stream could be used by content producers to automate TV production, like our example of EndemolShine Group, by journalists of a newsroom to search into live ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle today announced the discovery of and mitigation steps for “DrainerBot,” a major mobile ad fraud operation distributed through millions of downloads of infected consumer apps. Infected apps can consume more than 10GB of data per month downloading hidden and unseen video ads, potentially costing each device owner a hundred dollars per year or more in data overage charges. DrainerBot was uncovered through the joint efforts of Oracle technology teams from its Moat and Dyn acquisitions. Now part of the Oracle Data Cloud, Moat offers viewability, invalid traffic (IVT), and brand safety solutions, while Dyn ... Read More

Feed: What's New. You can now use the AWS Well-Architected Tool to also perform architectural reviews for hybrid cloud workloads as well as workloads which are fully deployed on-premises. When you define your workload, you now have the option to select both the AWS and the non-AWS Region(s) in which your workload is deployed. This allows you to document whether your workload is fully deployed on AWS, is partially deployed on AWS or running completely on-premises. You can then continue with the Well-Architected review as before. To learn more, visit the Documentation and the Product page.  ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sunil Kamath. Azure Database for PostgreSQL provides a fully managed, enterprise-ready community PostgreSQL database as a service. The PostgreSQL community edition helps you easily migrate existing apps to the cloud or develop cloud-native applications, using languages and frameworks of your choice. The service offers industry leading innovations such as built-in high availability, backed with 99.99 percent SLA, without the need to set up replicas and enabling customers to save over two times the cost. The capability also allows customers to scale compute up or down in seconds, helping you easily adjust to changes in workload ... Read More