Tag: Hardware

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: . High mask costs made it hard for chipset startups to raise capital during the early 2000s. Today, mask costs can range up to $25 million and, by some estimates, the design costs for a 12-nanometer (nm) node chip can run as high as $174 million. This made it hard for investors to justify the return on investment (ROI), as most of them demanded a 10X return. Only a few markets offered high volumes for chipsets to generate that kind of revenue. The emergence of AI has opened up many new possibilities for AI chipsets ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Kathleen Hillenbrand, Service Delivery Program Manager at AWSThe AWS Service Delivery Program identifies and endorses AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners with validated customer experience and a deep understanding of specific AWS services, such as Amazon EC2 for Windows, AWS IoT Core, and Amazon Kinesis. Please join us in congratulating these top 14 APN Partners on achieving new AWS Service Delivery Program designations in November. Each follows AWS best practices and has proven success delivering AWS services to end customers. To receive an AWS Service Delivery designation, APN Partners must undergo service-specific ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Shashi Raina. By Shashi Raina, Partner Solution Architect at AWSBy Veda Shankar, Senior Developer Advocate at OmniSciWe generate quintillions of bytes of data every day, but on the face of it the data is not necessarily useful. To make data useful, it should be processed into information. In this post, we’ll talk about how OmniSci, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Standard Technology Partner, provides a platform to make this process of changing data into information faster, cheaper, and interactive. With the rapid growth of data comes the challenge of getting meaningful information from ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: David Schmidt; Apple has long touted the security of the operating system running its products. By praising iOS devices for integrated software and hardware, Apple created a narrative that users believe. As tempting as it is to trust your iPhone’s security out of the box, it’s important to take extra measures to ensure your data is safe. There’s a downside to locking down your iPhone, though. The more actions you take to protect it from security threats, the more cumbersome your experience using it can become. It’s up to you to decide the extent of safeguards you’re ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: John Maynard. Photo by Pixabay via CC2.0 The Data Revolution is causing disruption everywhere. Even governments are feeling the effects. While the public sector may be less prepared for the impending changes, government has good reasons to embrace the Data Revolution. First, governments have been collecting data for years. They have lots of data. This supports programs, policy assessment, and often compliance requirements for program grants. The difficulty is pooling, accessing, and using this data effectively. This is key to unlocking the power of advanced data analytics. The Rise of the Government Chief Data Officer According ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Andrej Walilko; Looking ahead to 2019, many organizations can anticipate migrating their IT systems in order to take advantage of new technology or better service. Some are moving to the cloud. Some are migrating applications, or databases, or even switching hosts. There are also many companies who could anticipate a data migration if they were to think ahead but have not yet done so.It is important to think about data migrations early because planning ahead is particularly critical for ensuring smooth, fast migrations that deliver the intended benefits without causing a lot of headaches along the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Mine Tokus. We are excited to share that a new, automated way to configure high availability solutions for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) is now available using our SQL VM resource provider. To get started today, follow the instructions in the table below. High availability architectures are designed to continue to function even when there are database, hardware, or network failures. Azure Virtual Machine instances using Premium Storage for all operating system disks and data disks offers 99.9 percent availability. This SLA is impacted by three scenarios – unplanned hardware maintenance, unexpected downtime, ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Kayleigh Alexandra. The Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to be a transformative technology. As the inevitable result of boundless possibilities of the internet, it will generate and employ a vast sea of rich data on anything and everything that can be connected to a digital system — further dissolving the boundary that separates the online and offline worlds.This connected future is realistically unavoidable (it’s already happening, after all). But it’s still some way off. And it’s an exciting time for startups willing to plan ahead. They can take some time to explore and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Koichi Hirao. For over three years, we have helped customers find devices that work with Azure IoT technology through the Azure Certified for IoT program and the Azure IoT device catalog. In that time, our ecosystem has grown to one of the largest in the industry with more than 1,000 devices and starter kits from over 250 partners. Today, we are taking steps to further to grow our device partner ecosystem with the release of Azure IoT certification service (AICS), a new web-based test automation workflow, which is now generally available. AICS will significantly reduce ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. re:Invent 2018 is around the corner! This year, data and analytics tracks are bigger than ever.This blog post highlights the data and analytics sessions at re:Invent 2018. If you’re attending this year, you want to check out the sessions, workshops, chalk talks, and builder sessions that we have at the conference. As in previous years, you can find these events in various topic categories, such as Analytics, Deep Learning, AI Summit, Serverless, Architecture, and Databases. We have great sessions from Intuit, Nike, Intel, WuXi NextCODE, Warner Brothers, AutoDesk, NFL, SendGrid, McDonald, AirBnB, Hilton, Guardian Life, ... Read More