Tag: DR

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Pranav Rastogi. We are pleased to announce the availability of Imanis Data on Azure. Azure HDInsight is the industry leading fully-managed cloud Apache Hadoop & Spark offering, which allows customers to run reliable open source analytics with an industry-leading SLA. Imanis Data provides data management software that allows users to migrate data and add backup and restore functionality for their big data applications. This combined offering of Imanis Data on HDInsight and integration with Azure Blob Storage and Data Lake Store enables customers to migrate to cloud faster, protect critical data assets from application or ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Nikki McDonald, Tanya Reilly. Crane (source: Capri23auto via Pixabay) Register for the O'Reilly Velocity Conference to join Tanya Reilly and other industry experts. Use code ORM20 to save 20% on your conference pass (Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes). I recently asked Tanya Reilly, Site Reliability Engineer at Google, to share her thoughts on how to make better disaster recovery plans. Tanya is presenting a session titled Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference, taking place Oct. 1-4 in New York. 1. What are the most ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Elsa Sotiriadis. A 1925 artist's conception of what Nikola Tesla's wireless power transmission system might look like in the future (source: Wikimedia Commons) Sign up for BioCoder news and updates to say on top of the biological revolution. Biology is becoming the new digital. As the engineering of biology starts delivering solutions at industrial scale while becoming more data-driven and automated, investors are getting excited to fund breakthrough biotechnologies that unlock this potential for a whole range of industries. Europe has been steadily rising as a global hub for innovation and is attracting big ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: matloff. On May 31, I made a post here about our R package revisit, which is designed to help remedy the reproducibility crisis in science. The intended user audience includes reviewers of research manuscripts submitted for publication, scientists who wish to confirm the results in a published paper, and explore alternate analyses, and members of the original research team itself, while collaborating during the course of the research. The package is documented mainly in the README file, but we now also have a paper on arXiv.org, which explains the reproducibility crisis in detail, and how our package ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: john-sprague; Data already is the new currency and is at the heart of everything digital. I like to repeat the adage, “Data becomes Information, becomes Knowledge, becomes Wisdom”.  And “It’s all about the data”.  So why do we send up probes, sensors or satellites —  for the data?I’d like to touch upon some mission critical projects showing how NASA is using Big Data in a variety of ways to accomplish its goals: Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL) and quantum computers NASA's Pleiades Supercomputer performing modeling and simulation Distributed Active ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Jean-François Gagné; TL;DR: unless you know what you are doing, you should always have a primary key on your tables when replicating in RBR (and maybe even all the time). TL;DR2: MariaDB 10.1 has an interesting way to protect against missing a primary key (innodb_force_primary_key) but it could be improved.A few weeks ago, I was called off hours because replication delay on all the slaves from a replication chain was high and growing.  It was not the first time this happened on that chain, so I thought right away that this was probably an UPDATE or DELETE of many ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Sheeri K. Cabral; In the quest to secure MySQL as well as ease the number of complicated passwords to remember, many organizations are looking into external authentication, especially using LDAP. For free and open source, Percona’s PAM authentication plugin is the standard option. tl;dr is I go through how to compile php-cli for use with auth_pam plugin. BackgroundThere are two plugins that can be used. From the documentation, the two plugins are: Full PAM plugin called auth_pam. This plugin uses dialog.so. It fully supports the PAM protocol with arbitrary communication between client and server. Oracle-compatible PAM ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Higher education institutions of all sizes across the U.S. have invested in Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Cloud solutions for the modern planning and forecasting insights. Oracle EPM Cloud customers in higher education include: Lorain County Community College, San Francisco State University, Shawnee State University, University of Maryland, Baltimore, University of Wyoming, and the University System of New Hampshire. Oracle EPM Cloud helps higher education institutions better align budget dollars with organizational priorities to achieve academic and financial goals. With an intuitive user experience and prebuilt financial functions, higher education institutions can get greater insights ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: John Mount. We are very excited to announce a new (paid) Win-Vector LLC video training course: Supervised Learning in R: Regression now available on DataCamp The course is primarily authored by Dr. Nina Zumel (our chief of course design) with contributions from Dr. John Mount. This course will get you quickly up to speed covering: What is regression? (Hint: it is the art of making good numeric predictions, one of the most important tasks in data science, machine learning, or statistics.) When does it work, and when does it not work? How to move fluidly from basic ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sirius Kuttiyan. We have recently posted an article explaining the Backup and DR for Azure Disks. We encourage Azure IaaS users to refer to this document for planning the right Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) methodology for their disks. Following are a few considerations. Durability of Azure Disks We are excited to report that Azure has consistently delivered enterprise-grade durability for IaaS disks, with an industry-leading ZERO % Annualized Failure Rate. This means that Azure has never had a permanent failure of an IaaS disk. For Azure customers, it directly translates into lower cost, better ... Read More