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Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Ray Rogers. The Water Institute of the Gulf (Water Institute) runs its storm surge and wave analysis models on Amazon Web Services (AWS)—a task that sometimes requires large bursts of compute power. These models are critical in forecasting hurricane storm surge event (like Hurricane Laura in August 2020), evaluating flood risk for Louisiana and other coastal states, helping governments prepare for future conditions, and managing the coast proactively. Unfortunately, all of this can be exacerbated by the land loss problems plaguing Louisiana. The United States Geological Survey calculates that the state loses the equivalent ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: David Penick. “There’s a risk that your fraud detection becomes anecdotal because you become accustomed to certain addresses or names. You risk emphasizing the small-time fraudsters instead of the clever ones. The clever ones are the ones that don’t usually get caught,” said Marius Hartmann, Chief Advisor, Danish Business Authority.The best time to stop a fraudulent business is at the very beginning, when the business registers with the government. That’s the role of the Danish Business Authority, where the team uses graph data science to predict fraud and stores detailed data about every decision ... Read More

Feed: Redis. Author: Steve Naventi. 18h | Ronald Hoogland, Head of IT, Gamepoint With the past coronavirus lockdown affecting all aspects of our life from how we worked to how we played, it was no secret that many looked to gaming as an escape. According to Verizon, in the US alone there was an 82% increase in video game usage during lockdown compared to pre-COVID levels, as gamers sought to entertain themselves while confined to their own homes. In the early weeks of the lockdown, this led to some games and gaming platforms smashing their usage records. Counter Strike: Global ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Edgar Haren. While disruptive events are challenging for any organization, sudden and large-scale incidents such as natural disasters, IT outages, pandemics, and cyber-attacks can expose critical gaps in technology, culture, and organizational resiliency. Even smaller, unexpected events such as water damage to a critical facility or electrical outages can negatively impact your organization if there is no long-term resiliency plan in place. These events can have significant consequences on your employees, stakeholders, and mission, and can result in long-term financial losses, lost productivity, loss of life, a deterioration of trust with citizens and customers, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Lichun Li. As businesses continue to adapt to the realities of the current environment, operational resilience has never been more important. As a result, a growing number of customers have accelerated a move to the cloud, using Microsoft Azure NetApp Files to power critical pieces of their IT infrastructure, like Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, SAP applications, and mission-critical databases. Today, we release the preview of Azure NetApp Files cross region replication. With this new disaster recovery capability, you can replicate your Azure NetApp Files volumes from one Azure region to another in a fast and cost-effective ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Joseph Gildred; Welcome to the Cloudwards.net enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) roundup. This guide is intended to help SMB owners find the best online storage service for their business. We spent several weeks testing some of the biggest names the field in addition to giving our due diligence to some of the lesser known options as well. We broke down and ranked each service based on key collaboration features, including sync, file sharing, user management and work productivity integrations. Then, with all that information in place, we tallied the strengths and weaknesses, debated back and forth, ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Dr. Shivani Khasnis. Do you wish to be a medical coder and be a critical part of the healthcare industry?Healthcare sectors and healthcare practices have drastically changed over the years. Patients feel empowered when healthcare institutes treat them conveniently. Today, patients are treated as consumers of healthcare. Patients wish to choose hospitals that provide them with a good level of care that meet their expectations. Medical coding career has emerged as a crucial mainstay of the healthcare industry with a wide range of opportunities.Medical coders are an inevitable part of the medical team. Coders ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R, Econometrics, High Performance. collapse is a C/C++ based package for data transformation and statistical computing in R. Among other features it introduces an excellent and highly efficient architecture for grouped (and weighted) statistical programming in R. This post briefly explains this architecture and demonstrates:collapse uses grouping objects as essential inputs for grouped computations. These objects are created from vectors or lists of vectors (i.e. data frames) using the function GRP():library(collapse) # A dataset supplied with collapse providing sectoral value added (VA) and employment (EMP) head(GGDC10S, 3) ## Country Regioncode Region Variable Year AGR MIN MAN PU CON ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. In August 2020, the AWS Public Sector Blog covered cloud workforce development, partner programs for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and minority-owned businesses (MOBs), and more.For more blog highlights from this month, you can also check out The Brief. Featured stories on this month’s The Brief include: Pivoting and scaling with AWS: Three EdTechs share their journey to support education, and Announcing the IMAGINE: The New World of Education Webinar Series. Building a cloud-ready workforce: Utah announces plan to train and certify 5000 residents in cloud computing States are ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: John Doyle. In early 2020, Frost & Sullivan recognized Microsoft as the “undisputed leader” in global Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms for the Healthcare IT (HCIT) sector on the Frost Radar™. In a field of more than 200 global industry participants, Frost & Sullivan independently plotted the top 20 companies across various parameters indicative of growth and innovation, available for consumption here. According to Frost & Sullivan, the global AI HCIT market is on a rapid growth trajectory, with sales of AI-enabled HCIT products expected to generate more than $34.83 billion globally by 2025. Government agencies will ... Read More