Tag: compliance

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Matt Kennedy, Senior Director, Cloud Solutions. The market for cloud databases is on fire. According to a recent study, the global cloud database market hauled in $2.1 billion in 2015. By 2022, it’s expected to explode to $68.9 billion, boasting a 64.6% compound annual growth rate along the way. In large part, this growth has contributed to the emergence and widespread adoption of the hybrid cloud database. Why are so many organizations opting for hybrid cloud solutions instead of running everything in a private cloud, public cloud, or on-premises? The answer’s simple: ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jim Harris. When asked to name the things they own, most people would list physical objects like cars, houses, furniture, clothing, jewelry, electronics, computers, tablets and smartphones. If asked about digital objects (i.e., data) that they own, some might list the digital copies of music, television shows and movies they purchased from Amazon or iTunes – and maybe the photos and videos they created with their smartphones, or uploaded to Instagram or Google. Read an article to learn what personal data really means according to the GDPR. Few people would innately list personally identifiable information among ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Mitra Sinha. Financial Services organizations regulated by SEC, CFTC, FINRA, IIROC, FCA etc. are required to retain business-related communication in a Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) or immutable state that makes it non-erasable and non-modifiable for a certain retention interval. The immutable storage requirement is not limited to financial organizations, but also applies to industries such as healthcare, insurance, media, public safety, and legal services. Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of immutable storage for Azure Storage Blobs to address this requirement. The feature is available in all Azure public regions. Through configurable policies, users ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Diego Tamburini. Smart Manufacturing envisions a future where factory equipment can make autonomous decisions based on what’s happening on the factory floor. Businesses can more easily integrate all steps of the manufacturing process including design, manufacturing, supply chain and operation. This facilitates greater flexibility and reactivity when participating in competitive markets. Enabling this vision requires a combination of related technologies such as IoT, AI/machine learning, and Edge Computing. In this article, we will introduce Edge Computing and discuss its role in enabling Smart Manufacturing. What is Edge Computing? Put simply, Edge Computing is about taking ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Oren Parag. Azure Security Center’s dashboard has been redesigned to provide cross-subscription, organizational level reports of the most important metrics that influence the organizational security posture, as well providing actionable insights to help organizations improve their overall security posture. The redesigned dashboard also introduces two new concepts in Security Center: Subscription Coverage: This metric presents the Security Center status of all subscriptions the user has (at least) read access to and helps identify subscriptions lack adequate security controls. NOTE: In order to gain visibility to all subscriptions under your AAD tenant, it is required to ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Renata Melnyk. The AWS Competency Program validated 41 new AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners in May—spanning workload, solution, and industry designations. Please join us in welcoming our newest AWS Competency Partners!The AWS Competency Program helps customers identify and choose the world’s top APN Partners that have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in specialized solution areas. To receive the AWS Competency designation, APN Partners must undergo rigorous technical validation related to industry-specific technology, as well as an assessment of the security, performance, and reliability of their AWS solutions. This validation gives customers complete confidence in choosing ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Roni Fontaine. We are thrilled to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) version 3.0 is now available for early access. For more information, go here.  HDP 3.0 delivers new capabilities for the enterprise to enable agile application deployment, new machine learning/deep learning workloads, real-time database, & security and governance. It is a key component of the modern data architecture and can be deployed both on-premises and the cloud.  Many of the new enhancements to HDP 3.0 are based on Apache Hadoop 3.1 and include containerization, GPU support, erasure coding and namenode federation.  HDP 3.0 ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Christine Alford. AionNode: Fully functional AionNode with running Kernel. AISE TensorFlow CPU Production: A fully integrated deep learning software stack with TensorFlow, an open-source software library for machine learning, and Python, a high-level programming language for general-purpose programming for running on CPU. Azure AD Connect Server 2016: Add your Active Directory details and begin syncing to Azure Active Directory. Azure AD Connect will integrate your on-premises directories with Azure Active Directory. Provide a common identity for your users for Office 365, Azure, and SaaS applications. cuberubuntu: cuberubuntu images. F5 BIG-IQ Virtual Edition: F5 BIG-IQ provides ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: David Houlding. Excitement around the potential of blockchain in healthcare has reached all-time highs and is accelerating. There is a hunger building across the industry for real use cases with real healthcare organizations transacting on blockchain, and proof points, case studies, or success stories that outline business values sought, results achieved, what worked well, and what needs improvement. Only through such hands-on experience can we validate the true potential of blockchain in healthcare, refine its application, improve any deficiencies identified, build trust, and scale it both in terms of the networks of healthcare organizations participating ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Joanna Bieniek. 39 presenters, 39 presentations, 300 minutes of sharing knowledge and experience and 200 minutes of entertainment for over 800 attendees from business, government and academic circles. One SAS Team from Poland organised the 24th edition of the most important meeting of experts, practitioners and users of business analytics - SAS Forum Poland 2018. “Navigate Change with Analytics” was the motto of the conference that took place on May 21st, at the Warsaw Hilton Hotel. We live in a world of analytics, surrounded by data hidden in products and services we use every day. The analytic ... Read More