Tag: Hardware

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Ronald Caldwell; We live in an imperfect world where things don’t always go according to plan. More often than not, Murphy’s Law is in effect, and everything that can happen does happen. Not only is this true for life in general, but it is valid for everything around us, including our data. It is this imperfection that is the reason we want to address why you not only need system backups but offsite backups specifically.Why do you need offsite backups?Preserve Primary Storage SpaceProtection Against a Complete System CrashAssurance in the Event of Hard Drive FailureRecourse in ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Mark Russinovich. Reliance on cloud services continues to grow for industries, organizations, and people around the world. So now more than ever it is important that you can trust that the cloud solutions you rely on are secure, compliant with global standards and local regulations, keep data private and protected, and are fundamentally reliable. At Microsoft, we are committed to providing a trusted set of cloud services, giving you the confidence to unlock the potential of the cloud. Over the past 12 months, Azure has operated core compute services at 99.995 percent average uptime across ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Jean-François Gagné; This is a follow-up post in the MySQL Master Replication Crash Safety series.  In the previous posts, we explored the consequences of reducing durability on masters (different data inconsistencies after an OS crash depending on replication type) and the performance boost associated with this configuration (benchmark results done on Google Cloud Platform / GCP).  The consequences are summarised in the introduction of Part #4, and the tests are the subject of this last post.  Also in this last post, I mentioned that my results for high durability are limited by the sync latencies of GCP ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Jean-François Gagné; This post is a sister post to MySQL Master Replication Crash Safety Part #5: making things faster without reducing durability.  There is no introduction or conclusion to this post, only landing sections: reading this post without its context is not not recommended. You should start with the main post and come back here for more details. And this Part #5 of the series has many sub-parts.  So far, the following has been published:Making things faster without reducing durability - using better hardware I will edit this post as I am publishing the next sub-parts because I prefer ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. When Maria Colgan walked on stage at Open Mic night at a recent developer conference in Seattle, she knew the rules: no slides, 5-minute limit, demos encouraged. After four minutes and 54 seconds, she walked off stage to whoops and applause from 200 or so developers. Her simple demo? Spinning up an autonomous Oracle Database in the cloud, clicking on a new, just-announced list of built-in development tools, and starting a project. “People were sincerely excited,” says Scott Spendolini, the evening’s emcee at ODTUG Kscope 19. “These developers make their living with the database ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. By Kai Petzelt, vice president of product marketing for Oracle HCM Technology that supports compensation, payroll, benefits, performance, and time management in one platform, while also adhering to the latest compliance and regulatory requirements, can't be limited to the boundaries of the on-premises world. To benefit from all the capabilities with the lowest maintenance and effort to control and update the systems, a small-to-medium business (SMB) should take its human capital management (HCM)practices to the cloud. According to Deloitte, "using the cloud, organizations can see structural benefits that lie beyond technology advantages and makes it possible to connect ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Joseph Glover. By Joseph Glover, Sr. Solutions Architect at AWSBy Arun Sehgal, APN Lead – Power and Utilities at AWSBy Kam Lee, IoT Technical Specialist at IntelPower utilities around the world are headed towards the most radical shift in their business since their inception nearly 150 years ago. The concepts of decarbonization and the democratization of assets are taking root in the energy supply business. At the same time, the digitization of the grid—along with the shifting requirements of regulatory bodies—creates new challenges and opportunities for utilities around the world. Many utilities face an interesting challenge: ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Bert Van Hoof. The pace of change has never been as fast as it is now. Globally, the population is becoming more urban and income levels are rising. By 2050, nearly 70 percent of the global population will live in cities or urban areas—that’s six billion people. Consumer behavior has also materially changed over the last decade, and omnichannel retail, personalization, and demand for same day deliveries are growing. To cater to the changing landscape, urban distribution centers that stage products closer to users within large cities are on the rise to enable faster delivery ... Read More

Feed: Arisant. Author: Kyle May; Every few years IT departments come to a crossroads. Hardware is coming up to the end of its usable life and a decision must be made: replace/ upgrade the on-premises data center or take a leap and migrate to the cloud. The decision can be a tough one to make, but when many enterprises weigh the pros and cons of each option, cloud is becoming the clear choice. Not only are enterprises seeing better performance and security by migrating to the cloud, they are also seeing lower costs and higher ROI. Let’s take a look ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rainer Sternecker. More and more business applications, including advanced analytics, are moving into the cloud. The advantages are obvious: agility, innovation and cost-efficient high performance. However, many cloud migrations fail to unlock its full potential. To maximize the performance and value of analytics in the cloud, companies need to balance options and find the right approach. Cost savings remain an important argument for moving to the cloud. Companies that choose to do so can save up to a third of the cost of running their data centre and infrastructure. Services such as computing capacity and storage ... Read More