Tag: Enterprise

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Madhukar Kumar. The data landscape has grown increasingly demanding and crowded in the last few years, with many platforms competing to offer the best processing and storage options. Tech consumers expect companies to deliver high-speed data processing while simultaneously offering a variety of adaptable solutions that work with traditional applications but also built for modern architecture like microservices. Unlike a monolithic framework, a microservice structure enables companies to facilitate faster time-to-market for new applications or updates. With the lightweight design and agility of microservices, companies can allocate each individual service they offer to its own distinct ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Bryce Merkl Sasaki. By Alastair Green, Query Languages Standards & Research Lead, Neo4j | February 15, 2019Reading time: 4 minutes The community vote by Apache Spark contributors has just closed – and the results are positive. Thank you to everyone who participated when we asked for your votes and feedback.As part of the preparations for a forthcoming Apache Spark 3.0 release, the Spark development community has just completed a positive vote for a Spark Project Improvement Proposal (SPIP) to add property graphs based on DataFrames to Spark. Based on the achievements of the ongoing ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: James Baker. On February 7, 2019 we announced the general availability of Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2. Azure is now the only cloud provider to offer a no-compromise cloud storage solution that is fast, secure, massively scalable, cost-effective, and fully capable of running the most demanding production workloads. In this blog post we’ll take a closer look at the technical foundation of ADLS that will power the end to end analytics scenarios our customers demand. ADLS is the only cloud storage service that is purpose-built for big data analytics. It is designed to integrate ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Samual Alister. Data science is among the one of the most discussed term in last few years. Digital industry is hugely dependent on exchange of data. But most of us just know about basic terminology about data science like it just about studying data and finding out some important information from them. But it is more than that. So, what exactly those data scientists do? Why does everyone want one? And how do you become one? Let’s start with what does a data scientist do? Same as a business analyst, data ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Sasa Crnojevic. There is a virtualisation revolution happening in networks, as communication services providers increasingly turn to automation to deliver ongoing cost savings. 5G is also just around the corner and will place increasing demands on networks.  As a result, there are a number of changes on the horizon. The first is the use of real-time network anomaly detection and outage prevention. Dynamic capacity and path allocations are also inevitable parts of network design, and many standardisation bodies are addressing this. The details are not yet resolved, but there is a clear consensus that without the ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Mark Stevens. SAS Global Certification is proud to introduce our first performance-based programming credential, the SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.4. Candidates will program in SAS during this exam. We have worked with our exam delivery partners to integrate a live lab into this exam and it can be delivered anywhere, anytime, on-demand. The current SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 credential, which has been in service since 2006, will not be available after June 2019. Why introduce performance-based exam components? As assessment professionals, we know that a well-constructed multiple-choice exam is a ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. When upgrading a school district’s infrastructure, the administration thinks about the physical buildings as well as the IT. In 2018, Portland Public Schools began tackling both. The district is visibly renovating many of its high schools, but behind the scenes, they also migrated to the cloud, increasing both performance and capacity for their users.Travis Paakki, Sr. Director of Technology, Portland Public Schools, started around the time the district’s sizeable enterprise resource planning (ERP) install was nearing its end of life. The IT team was faced with a choice – either refresh ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Lindsey Smith; I’m happy to announce that Puppet Enterprise-only modules are now more widely available for use and now have public code repositories! There have been Puppet modules for use with Puppet Enterprise only for a long time, such as the Microsoft SQL Server and VMware vSphere modules. For these modules we consistently got two pieces of feedback:First is that it’s too hard to get the module code anywhere but a licensed Puppet Enterprise master. If you are trialling Puppet Enterprise or want to run them locally, in CI or with Bolt apply it’s a ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; MEGA advertises itself as “the privacy company,” while Tresorit emphasizes its security features. The former service is near the top of our best cloud storage list, while the latter occupies the spot below it. We’ll see if that order holds when we compare them in this MEGA vs Tresorit battle. If you want to know more about them, read our separate MEGA review and Tresorit review. If you can’t make up your mind, refer to our best cloud storage guide for help. Both are on it and can easily be compared with others. Cloud storage ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jake Fellows; The particular type of virtualization a private cloud is built on needs to be fully considered by businesses trying to decide whether a private cloud is for them. The private cloud can involve a few different types of hypervisors, however, and a few different infrastructure arrangements. They are not all the same.VMware is an infrastructure virtualization provider and is used by about 75 percent of businesses that use virtualized servers. About three-quarters of businesses with 50 or more employees use virtual machines, meaning many businesses of all sizes use VMware. There are also many ... Read More