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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: 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

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jake Fellows; Organizations of all types and sizes use VMware virtualization, and quality managed services make VMware private cloud a cost-effective upgrade for many small and medium-sized businesses. VMware private cloud is a premium solution with particular benefits for a certain range of workloads. Popular uses include backups, disaster mitigation, test and development environments, devops, and handling sensitive or regulated data.Organizations considering deploying a private cloud or hybrid cloud solution should take their time and plan their environment carefully, as getting maximum value from any kind of architecture requires getting the details right. A managed service ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Daisy Rowley. Data Storage: A Look at 3 Main Types & Determining Which is Best for Your Business(Alternative title – Data storage: which of the 3 types is best for your business?I remember when I first started my business several years ago. And one of the last things on my mind while trying to get it up and running was how I was going to store my data.As my business, Click Intelligence started to grow, the files started piling up in my laptop. I quickly learned that I could no longer get away with ... Read More

Feed: SQL Server Release Services. Author: SQL Server Engineering Team. We are getting ready to update the SQL Server Management Packs. This includes the existing versioned MPs for 2008-2016, as well as the new version agnostic SQL Server MP for 2012 and up (for more info on the version agnostic MP, see here). Please install and use this public preview and send us your feedback (sqlmpsfeedback@microsoft.com)! We appreciate the time and effort you spend on these previews which make the final product so much better. Please download at: Microsoft System Center Management Packs (Community Technical Preview) for SQL Server 2008-2016 Microsoft System ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Enza Iannopollo. California is taking the lead in the US on privacy regulation with the adoption of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Security and privacy professionals whose companies have consumers in California must get their implementation plans together now. Those that believe that CCPA is not their problem must think again: This is likely to be the first of many state-level privacy requirements. And this is just the beginning. Our data shows that compliance with global privacy laws is one of the top three challenges CISOs face, on par with the changing threat landscape ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bill Schmarzo. There are several technology and business forces in-play that are going to derive and drive new sources of customer, product and operational value. As a set up for this blog on the Economic Value of Data Science, let’s review some of those driving forces. Artificial Intelligence holds the economic potential to drastic drive industry and business model disruptions. But having AI technologies is not sufficient, especially when most AI technologies are open source and readily available to everyone. Data is the source of economic potential, and the Data Lake is ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rajani Janaki Ram. To meet customer demand, Azure is continuously expanding. We’ve been adding new Azure regions and introducing new capabilities. As a result, customers want to move their existing virtual machines (VMs) to new regions while adopting the latest capabilities. There are other factors that prompt our customers to relocate their VMs. For example, you may want to do that to increase SLAs. In this blog, we will walk you through the steps you need to follow to move your VM as is or to increase availability, across regions. Why do customers want to move ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Manish Dudharejia. The customer experience is often at the forefront of many business decisions. Obviously, the more pleasant the encounter a customer has with a company, the more likely they will be to buy from them again and recommend it to their friends.But what about when a problem arises?The customer service department can make or break the CX, and unfortunately many times it does more harm than good. One-third of your customers will switch to a competitor after a single negative interaction with your customer service department.Obviously, ensuring that your support team is able ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jake Fellows; The particular type of virtualization a private cloud is built on needs to be fully considered by businesses trying to decide whether a private cloud is for them. The private cloud can involve a few different types of hypervisors, however, and a few different infrastructure arrangements. They are not all the same.VMware is an infrastructure virtualization provider and is used by about 75 percent of businesses that use virtualized servers. About three-quarters of businesses with 50 or more employees use virtual machines, meaning many businesses of all sizes use VMware. There are also many ... Read More