Tag: Documentation

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; With any luck, you’ve seen all the reports about the vulnerabilities recently discovered called Spectre and Meltdown (CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, and CVE-2017-5754) and know how serious they are. And odds are, you’re already planning the rollout of the patches and BIOS updates needed to bring your environment into compliance, and you have a good idea of how many nodes need to be touched, but you don’t have an easy way of verifying the current state of things. But you need a quick way to determine what the current state is, and for that way ... 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: Recent Announcements. You can create an export with just a few clicks on the Amazon RDS Management Console or using the AWS SDK or CLI. Extracting data from a snapshot doesn’t impact the performance of your database, as the export operation is performed on your snapshot and not your database. The extracted data in Apache Parquet format is portable, so you can consume it with query services such as Amazon Athena or big data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark. For more information, including instructions on getting started, read the Aurora documentation or Amazon RDS documentation. Amazon RDS Snapshot ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rick Wicklin. I was recently asked about how to interpret the output from the COLLIN (or COLLINOINT) option on the MODEL statement in PROC REG in SAS. The example in the documentation for PROC REG is correct but is somewhat terse regarding how to use the output to diagnose collinearity and how to determine which variables are collinear. This article uses the same data but goes into more detail about how to interpret the results of the COLLIN and COLLINOINT options. An overview of collinearity in regression Collinearity (sometimes called multicollinearity) involves only the explanatory variables ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Our mission at Puppet is to empower people through software, and by “people” we mean “IT professionals whose job is to deliver applications and services to internal and external end-users.” The users of our software work at over 37,000 organizations worldwide, and have traditionally had titles like sysadmin or operations engineer. But this has been changing: Over the last few years, we’ve seen a transition in how organizations deliver applications and services, moving from functional teams (Development, QA, and Operations) with a linear software delivery lifecycle, into cross-functional teams that rapidly iterate to ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Business Science. [This article was first published on business-science.io, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Product price estimation and prediction is one of the skills I teach frequently – It’s a great way to analyze competitor product information, your own company’s product data, and develop key insights into which product features influence product prices. Learn how to model product car prices and calculate depreciation curves using the brand ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Tom Tasker. By Tom Tasker, EMEA Storage Partner Solutions Architect at AWSMicrosoft SQL (MSSQL) is an enterprise-level database application used by some of the world’s largest companies. With business-critical data housed in MSSQL databases, high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) are essential features of any MSSQL deployment that businesses have to architect for. With Amazon Web Services (AWS), server resources for large MSSQL deployments can be taken out of the data center and run on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. The ability to boot these instances in minutes provides ease ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. 1. Introduction PostgreSQL is packed with several security features for a database administrator to utilize according to his or her organizational security needs. The word Security is a very broad concept and could refer to completely different procedures and methodology to achieve in different PostgreSQL components. This blog is divided into part 1, 2 and 3 and I will explain the word Security with regards to PostgreSQL version 12.1 and how it is practiced in different areas within the system. In Part 1 of the blog, I will be discussing the basic security features that exist in ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. In its mission is to maintain, train, and equip combat-ready naval forces, the U.S. Navy automates many back-office functions related to technology, services, and human resources so that members of the Navy can make informed decisions and focus on their tasks at hand. However, these on-premises systems have historically been disconnected and dispersed, making it challenging to collect, process, and analyze mission-critical information quickly. To combat that disconnect, the U.S. Navy is moving the largest enterprise resource planning (ERP) system – 72,000 users spread across six U.S ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Todd Wright. A long-held belief in the field of analytics is that only 20% of a person’s time is spent analyzing data – the remaining 80% is devoted to preparing data. It's a sobering statistic to say the least. Even more so as the need to get insights from data in real time rises in importance. To fight fraud, understand customers and evolve to using artificial intelligence, organizations can no longer afford to rely on the IT department to handle data preparation as business users sit and wait. Enter self-service data preparation Thus has been the ... Read More