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Feed: Planet big data. Author: John Morrell. Componentization, containers and the cloud have all converged to usher in a new era focused on “Ops.” It started with DevOps, which according to Wikipedia is defined as: “a software engineering culture and practice that aims at unifying software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops).” And while DevOps initially focused on software engineering processes to construct, test and release software, more of the recent attention has been on the “Ops” part – automating the operational deployment aspects to make rollouts faster, smoother and more reliable. The cloud has created an even greater need ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Arindam C. DATAWORKS SUMMIT, SAN JOSE, Calif., June 18, 2018 – Earlier today, the Microsoft Corporation deepened its commitment to the Apache Hadoop ecosystem and its partnership with Hortonworks that has brought the best of Apache Hadoop and the open source big data analytics to the Cloud. Since the start of the partnership nearly six years ago, hundreds of the largest enterprises have chosen to use Azure HDInsight and Hortonworks to run Hadoop, Spark and other Open Source analytics workloads on Azure. Also, during this time, Microsoft has become one of the leading committers to ... 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: 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: Alicia Li. Household names such as Adobe, Jet, ASOS, Schneider Electric, and Milliman are amongst hundreds of enterprises that are powering their Big Data Analytics using Azure HDInsight. Azure HDInsight launched nearly six years ago and has since become the best place to run Apache Hadoop and Spark analytics on Azure. Here are the top eight reasons why enterprises are choosing Azure HDInsight for their big data applications: 1. Fully managed cluster service for Apache Hadoop and Spark workloads: Spin up Hive, Spark, LLAP, Kafka, HBase, Storm, or R Server clusters within minutes, deploy and ... Read More

Feed: Databasejournal.com - Feature Database Articles. Author: . The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect worldwide on May 25, 2018. In response, companies throughout the world increased their data security awareness, appointed data protection officers and updated their privacy policies. IT support staff responded with updated data dictionaries, flagging of personal data, encryption at various points (local and cloud storage, network traffic, etc.) and heightened security procedures. However, more work is needed. In this article we focus on what the DBA must do in the near term in order to anticipate and prevent performance and capacity issues. The ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: TwinDB; Simple shell script is bad idea Internet is full of simple shell backup scripts. Every DBA and system administrators (including myself) has written one. Bash is a bad tool for this job and in this post I will explain why. Let’s find out why the need to write anything arises at first place. There is a lot of great backup tools for databases as well as for files. Following Unix paradigm they do one thing and do it well. With tar I can copy files, with mysqldump I can copy MySQL database. But there are other ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Below are the key highlights of the announcement.  - New eviction policy for caching improvements – Redis 4.0 now supports a frequency-based LFU (Least Frequently Used) eviction policy for evicting keys in addition to the existing time-based LRU (Least Recently Used) policy. The new LFU policy provides a better cache hit ratio by keeping frequently used data in-memory irrespective of the last time it was accessed.  - A new family of commands to understand memory utilization – Redis 4.0 introduces a new family of commands including MEMORY which provides better insights on Redis memory usage. The MEMORY ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: HowToForge; Seafile is an open source file-hosting and cloud storage system with advanced functions like syncing from multiple platforms (cross-platform system), privacy protection with built-in file encryption, and support for Two-Factor Authentication (TFA), version control, file locking, online editing, and many more. Seafile is written in C and Python programming language and provides similar features like Dropbox, mega.co.nz, and others. In this tutorial, I will show you step-by-step how to install and configure a Seafile server with Nginx web server and the MySQL database. We will install the seafile server under the Nginx web server with ... Read More