Tag: Enterprise

Feed: What's New. Amazon QuickSight users can now add combo charts to their analyses and dashboards. Combo charts are useful for visualizing data of different scales, such as product revenue ($) and units sold (#), in a single visualization. Data can be visualized as bars or lines, with two axes to display separate scales for each. Combo charts are available in both Standard and Enterprise Editions of Amazon QuickSight ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Scott Hurff. Blueprint sketch (source: PublicDomainPictures.net) This is an excerpt from "Designing Products People Love"—read the full book on Safari. “What if you launch your product...and nobody buys it?” These were the words that compelled me, as a would-be graduate of the 30x500 bootcamp (a class that teaches people how to create and sell their first products), to become a student. It was a moment that would change my life. Less than six months after graduating from the course, I created two products from scratch that made more money with fewer customers than the ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Kyle Davis. Exploring the performance of Redis Enterprise with Flash memory extension. With Redis Enterprise, we recently enabled the ability to extend your RAM based storage into flash memory. Don’t confuse this with some form of persistence, this is a way to let Redis break out of the bounds of the server RAM and into Flash storage as needed. With the advances in Flash memory (NVMe-based SSD storage), the performance becomes very viable, although not quite as quick as RAM alone. This allows you to have hybrid storage – data moves between fast RAM and Flash ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Shelby Khan. In September, we rounded out the 2017 DataWorks Summit events in Sydney, Australia. Each event boasts different sessions, keynotes, sponsors, etc. so you can be sure to get a new experience and the latest updates from the community wherever you go. Aside from the networking opportunities, the best part of DataWorks Summit is the session content. In fact, the most common question we are asked at the show is, “When will the slides be available?”. Well, good news. You can find the slides for the sessions on the agenda on the website ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Brian Hopkins. Forrester’s What It Means PodcastConversations with thought leaders to define and demystify the changing market. Listen or subscribe now    Like many digital native startups, data analytics underpinned peer-to-peer eCommerce site Etsy’s operations since the company was founded in 2005. In their early days , their struggles to achieve true customer understanding led to poor digital experiences for its sellers and the failure to accurately capture customer preferences. Etsy turned this around by building out a dedicated research department to blend quantitative and qualitative insight and embed customer insights into every department – leading ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. It is with great pleasure that we announce the final program for PGConf Local: Seattle. The schedule is still being hammered out but we have finalized the content that will be presented. Please join us in celebrating Postgres in Seattle! The conference is the first Postgres event to be held in Seattle since 2009 and we have received a lot of positive feedback from the local Postgres and Data communities. Clearly Postgres has been missed in the Emerald City! Training Options: Breakout Sessions: Track: Ops Develop intelligent apps on the Azure platform using the Azure Database for PostgreSQL ... Read More

Feed: CDH – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Cy Jervis. With the abundance of deep learning frameworks available today, it can be difficult to know what to choose for any particular application. Given the contrasting strengths and weaknesses of these frameworks, the ability to work with and switch between more than one is particularly important. Recent Cloudera blogs have shown how examples of applying deep learning on the Cloudera ecosystem using popular frameworks Deeplearning4j, BigDL, and Keras+TensorFlow. This post extends those examples by providing details on performing image recognition with convolutional neural networks using the Apache MXNet (incubating) framework, leveraging Cloudera’s ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Guest post by Tara Combs, RM Specialist, Alfresco SoftwareThe Managing Government Records Directive (OMB/NARA) sets goals that federal agencies must meet to modernize records management. Complying with the Directive presents opportunities to adopt a 21st century approach based on digitization, automation, open source, and cloud technologies. But the clock is ticking. It’s now time to look ahead to the 2019 deadline for managing records electronically. Modernizing Records Management Alfresco Governance Services, running on Amazon Web Services, is the foundation for modern, compliant records management at the Department of Defense and multiple ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Managing database users though federation allows you to manage authentication and authorization procedures centrally. Amazon Redshift now supports database authentication with IAM, enabling user authentication though enterprise federation. No need to manage separate database users and passwords to further ease the database administration. You can now manage users outside of AWS and authenticate them for access to an Amazon Redshift data warehouse. Do this by integrating IAM authentication and a third-party SAML-2.0 identity provider (IdP), such as AD FS, PingFederate, or Okta. In addition, database users can also be automatically created at their first login ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Digital trust can make or break a brand. Amazon understood this concept early on. When the company first launched as an online bookseller in 1994, consumer confidence in online shopping was low, to say the least. Exclusively competing with local bookstores, Amazon and many e-tailers throughout the 90s and early 2000s had to work to create trust in online shopping. Their efforts paid off, ushering in a new era and transforming the way we all shop today. Amazon is a good example of digital trust making a brand. But data ... Read More