Tag: Google Cloud Platform

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Posts on Tychobra. [This article was first published on Posts on Tychobra, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here)Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.A few months back we had the pleasure of working with Axion Biosystems to develop a mobile first shiny application. The app is called “Maestro Z”, and Axion ended up making a couple commercial advertisements for it (one magazine ad and a video). We are very happy with how the app turned ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Severalnines; In recent years, the use of platform infrastructure has shifted from on-premise to cloud computing. This is based on the absence of cost capital costs that must be incurred by the company if used when implementing IT infrastructure. Cloud computing provides flexibility in every line of resources ie. on human resources, energy, time savings. Cloud computing makes it easy for organizations to do IT planning, executing, maintaining platforms to support business interests. But both have similarities, we had to think about BCP (Business Continuity Plan) and Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) when using the cloud. Data ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. When analyzing the data and analytics marketplace, it’s easy to get confused. So many products, so many claims – how can you sort it all out?One way to make sense of a technical product is to look for differentiators. That is, what role does the technology play in the ecosystem and, within that role, what makes the product – and the company – different from the competition. Since its founding over 40 years ago, Teradata has been helping the world’s largest and most complex enterprises effectively capture, integrate, process and share data on a massive scale, supporting ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: Wight Goforth; Health and life sciences organizations are experiencing a culture shift as they respond to demand for improved healthcare information, experiences, products, and services. Building applications and migrating regulated workloads to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers an attractive way to respond to competitive pressures, speed innovation and discovery, time to market, and resilience. However, the self-service, dynamic nature of software-defined cloud environments creates unique challenges for IT security, governance, risk and compliance professionals in the health and life sciences industry. Processes and tools that worked well in the traditional ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Nick Lamb. MariaDB Corporation recently released SkySQL, a fully managed database-as-a-service for MariaDB Platform. SkySQL is the ultimate MariaDB cloud and provides transactional, analytical, and hybrid database services backed by the team that engineered MariaDB.  SkySQL is available in regional data centers all over the world run by experts that enable you to meet global business, compliance and security requirements.SkySQL premiered on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). With support in data centers in Asia, Europe and the US, SkySQL has a global footprint. Current regions include: asia-southeast1 (Jurong West, Singapore) europe-west1 ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. As more companies come to the cloud, what type of deployment strategy are they deciding is best for them? For most, it's multicloud. A multicloud strategy is the use of two or more cloud-based compute services. Multicloud can refer to any deployment of multiple software-as-a-service (SaaS) or platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud offerings. However, it usually refers to a mix of public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environments. Organizations choose to implement a multicloud strategy for many reasons: to enable flexible distribution of workloads, increase security, improve reliability, enable versatile DevOps environments, and, of course, reduce costs. This post ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Percona Community; Cate Lawrence  | June 2, 2020 |  Posted In: DevOps, Kubernetes, MySQL, Open Source DatabasesThis session at Percona Live ONLINE was presented by Akshay Suryawanshi, Senior Production Engineer at Shopify, and Jeremy Cole, Senior Staff Production Engineer – Datastores at Shopify.Shopify is an online and on-premise commerce platform, founded in 2006. Shopify is used by more than a million merchants, and hundreds of billions of dollars of sales have happened on the platform since its inception. The company is a large user of MySQL, and the Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekends are their peak dates ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Shane Johnson. COVID-19 has changed everything. That isn’t news. In May 2020, MariaDB conducted a global survey that looked at the initial COVID-19 impact on businesses moving to the cloud and IT professionals’ attitudes on what has changed – and what they think will change as a result of COVID-19.One trend we saw is that the global crisis is driving cloud adoption. 40% said COVID-19 is accelerating their move to the cloud. It makes sense. The cloud lets companies increase capacity without investing in hardware and facilities. Additionally, there is less need to add staff if ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. With the MemSQL 7.1 release, we’re continuing our journey to a simpler data platform, offering speed, scalability, and SQL – accessible to everyone, and easy to use. The release is available today as downloadable software and at the core of MemSQL Helios, our elastic managed service in the cloud.  Simplicity There is a trend, especially in the cloud, to add a new, specialized data management technology for each separate type of workload. Part of our solution to this is MemSQL SingleStore, which unifies transactions and analytics in a single data table.  With the 7.1 ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: Wight Goforth; Most organizations already have some level of cloud infrastructure services (IaaS, PaaS, FaaS, or serverless) and as more workloads migrate to, and are built on, the cloud, the top cloud security concern for any organization is a data breach. To underscore this point, breaches uncovered in March 2019 alone include the exposure of thousands of doctors’ notes by Meditab, 1.5 million customer records by Gearbest, 2.4 million client records from Dow Jones, and 809 million customer records by Verifications.io. All of the above breaches were due to misconfigurations and mistakes made by the Cloud Service ... Read More