Tag: Encryption

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Sandra Pattison; It can be annoying when you can’t access the content or online service you want because of geoblocks. If you’re a South African abroad and you’re trying to look at content restricted to your country, you’ll be left looking at an error message. You need to get a South African IP address to view it, so we’re going to show you how to get one. It may just look like a bunch of random numbers, but your IP address has a lot of hidden information in it. When you go online, it tells the website or ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. First off – not trying to kindle any flame wars here, just trying to broaden my (your) horizons a bit, gather some ideas (maybe I’m missing out on something cool, it’s the most used Open Source RDBMS after all) and to somewhat compare the two despite being a difficult thing to do correctly / objectively. Also I’m leaving aside here performance comparisons and looking at just the available features, general querying experience and documentation clarity as this is I guess most important for beginners. So just a list of points I made for myself, grouped in no ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. In many organisations, IT security and data governance processes can be complex since data is stored across multiple environments and applications. Data privacy, including data classification, is now a core component of security requirements. Organisations need an easier and more pragmatic approach in administering their data assets to mitigate operational risk.Mandatory data privacy regulations, including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and Information Security Manual (ISM) data stores were administered by IT security based on their environment, application, group of users, and/or use cases. Now, ... Read More

Feed: What's New. For each Workgroup, you can also view aggregated query-related metrics in AWS CloudWatch, and mandate Workgroup settings that apply to all queries running in the Workgroup. Examples of such settings include Amazon S3 locations where results are stored and encryption options. You can enforce cost controls by creating data usage controls that apply to all queries running in a Workgroup. For each Workgroup, you can set two categories of data usage controls. The first is set on the amount of data scanned per-query, enforced on a running query. If a query crosses a certain predefined threshold, Athena ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; PREVIOUS POST Network is a major part of a database infrastructure. However, often performance benchmarks are done on a local machine, where a client and a server are collocated – I am guilty myself. This is done to simplify the setup and to exclude one more variable (the networking part), but with this we also miss looking at how network affects performance. The network is even more important for clustering products like Percona XtraDB Cluster and MySQL Group Replication. Also, we are working on our Percona XtraDB Cluster Operator for Kubernetes and OpenShift, ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; PREVIOUS POST Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.7.25-28 on February 18, 2019. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories. This release is based on MySQL 5.7.25 and includes all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server 5.7.25-28 is now the current GA (Generally Available) release in the 5.7 series. All software developed by Percona is open-source and free. In this release, Percona Server introduces the variable binlog_skip_flush_commands. This variable controls whether or not FLUSH commands are written to the binary log. Setting this variable to ON can help avoid problems in replication. For more information, refer to our documentation. Note If ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Anuneet Kumar. This post is contributed by Adam McLean – Solutions Developer at AWS and Chirill Cucereavii – Application Architect at AWS In this post, we show you how to automatically refresh the container instances in an active Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) cluster with instances built from a newly released AMI. The Amazon ECS-optimized AMI  comes prepackaged with the ECS container agent, Docker agent, and the ecs-init upstart service. We recommend that you use the Amazon ECS-optimized AMI for your container instances unless your application requires any of the following: A specific operating system Custom security and monitoring agents installed ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Baiju NT. Data is power and with that power comes great responsibility. One of the biggest obstacles in data is identifying duplicates and de-duping.The aim of data-deduplication is to eliminate any redundant data in your business. Duplicates are created in all areas of your business such as the sales rep inputting a new record without checking the database first, a marketer uploading a list of potential buyers without checking if the record exists and a customer who inputs their information again as they forgot they have an account with you already.Data deduplication ensures proper ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; NordVPN is one of our go-to providers when making virtual private network recommendations. It held multiple spots in our best VPN guide and beat the competition in our NordVPN vs. CyberGhost and NordVPN vs. PIA comparisons. Though it fell short in our ExpressVPN vs. NordVPN guide, it’s superior to almost any other provider. IPVanish, on the other hand, is a middle-of-the-road provider that would be good if it wasn’t for questionable business practices. In this comparison of NordVPN vs. IPVanish, we’re going to pit the providers against each other to see which is the better ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Everyone’s favorite corporate-driven holiday is here, and for the fortunate among you with significant others, that means a day of love, gifts and celebration. For everyone else, it probably means looking for love, and there’s no easier way to do that than with online dating apps. Chocolates and flowers are fine, but this Valentine’s Day, Cloudwards.net wants to give you a far more valuable gift. Admittedly, it’ll be like getting socks for Christmas, but if you didn’t have them, you’d be walking around with blisters every day (or just look like an unbearable hipster). We’re ... Read More