Tag: Hardware

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Brendan Miller. Stripe, one of the leading payment providers for online and platform businesses, today announced “Stripe Terminal” to tackle the merchant challenges around in-person payments. Stripe’s solution combines several of the technology components that go into in-person payments and works to abstract the complexity away for merchants and developers. In-person payments are operationally challenging for merchants. Retail payment leaders working to support their business’ omnichannel efforts and global expansion ambitions consistently run into a complex maze of in-store (AKA, card-present) payment stack providers, including payment processors, local acquirers and gateways, terminal hardware, and middleware ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Cybercrime is becoming popular with criminals as a way to scam the naive. In our series on cybercrime, we’ve looked at phishing, ransomware and botnets. Now, we’re tackling one of the most common and dangerous cybersecurity threats: browser hijacking. Browser hijacking is common because non-techies often don’t realize they have it. We’re going to explore what browser hijacking is, infamous examples of it, how to get rid of it and how you can protect yourself in the future. There’s crosstalk between cybersecurity threats, and browser hijacking is no different. If the symptoms we lay out ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Olexander Kolisnykov. For most businesses, machine learning seems close to rocket science, appearing expensive and talent demanding. And, if you’re aiming at building another Netflix recommendation system, it really is. But the trend of making everything-as-a-service has affected this sophisticated sphere, too. You can jump-start an ML initiative without much investment, which would be the right move if you are new to data science and just want to grab the low hanging fruit. One of ML's most inspiring stories is the one about a Japanese farmer who decided to sort cucumbers automatically ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: David Smith. A monthly roundup of news about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. This is an eclectic collection of interesting blog posts, software announcements and data applications from Microsoft and elsewhere that I've noted over the past month or so. Open Source AI, ML & Data Science News ONNX 1.3 released. The standard for representing predictive models adds a cross-platform API for executing graphs on optimized backends and hardware. A new foundation supporting the development of scikit-learn, the Python machine learning library. Google open sources "dopamine", a Tensorflow-based framework for reinforcement learning research ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Peter Zaitsev | September 20, 2018 |  Posted In: Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Monitoring and Management, PMM, Prometheus PREVIOUS POST Prometheus 2 time series database (TSDB) is an amazing piece of engineering, offering a dramatic improvement compared to “v2” storage in Prometheus 1 in terms of ingest performance, query performance and resource use efficiency. As we’ve been adopting Prometheus 2 in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), I had a chance to look into the performance of Prometheus 2 TSDB. This blog post details my observations. Understanding the typical Prometheus workload For someone who has spent their career ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: timfraser. Clustrix technology will allow MariaDB to scale beyond traditional distributed solutions such as Oracle RAC to levels only achieved with NoSQL, without compromising core enterprise features MENLO PARK, Calif. and HELSINKI – September 20, 2018 – MariaDB® Corporation today announced it has acquired Clustrix, the pioneer in distributed database technology, for an undisclosed amount. With the acquisition, MariaDB adds scale-out capability that runs on premises with commodity hardware or in any cloud environment, with greater scalability and higher availability than other traditional distributed options such as Oracle RAC. The acquisition, which follows news of an ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. Artificial intelligence is one of the most significant breakthroughs of the 21st century. Experts from different industries study its capabilities and discover new ways of its application. We call AI an emerging technology, however, scientists have been working in this direction since the 1950s. At first, AI was far from smart robots we see in sci-fi movies. Nevertheless, thanks to such technologies as machine learning and deep learning, AI became one of the most promising areas of the IT industry. The demand for AI developers constantly grows, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Jon Ruggles, Director of Client Strategies at Five TalentAs an Amazon Web Services (AWS) authorized reviewer, Five Talent is redesigning its business from traditional software development to solutions architecture based on the 5 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. The move is transforming our consulting approach, from how we onboard clients and projects to how we recruit and train cloud architects. In this post, we’ll discuss how leveraging the AWS Well-Architected Framework Review accelerates new business opportunities for AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners and gives customers a holistic, comprehensive process ... Read More

Feed: What's New. AWS Storage Gateway enables hybrid cloud storage. It connects on-premises applications to AWS storage services, and provides low-latency data access through local caching. You can use the service for backup, archiving and disaster recovery, tiering data to the cloud, application file storage, and data processing workflows. AWS Storage Gateway uses standard storage protocols (NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and iSCSI-VTL), so your applications can store files, block volumes, snapshots, and virtual tape backups in AWS ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Peter Zaitsev | September 18, 2018 |  Posted In: MySQL, Percona Monitoring and Management, Performance Tuning, PMM PREVIOUS POST A few months ago I wrote a blog post on How to Capture Per Process Metrics in PMM. Since that time, Nick Cabatoff has made a lot of improvements to Process Exporter and I’ve improved the Grafana Dashboard to match. I will not go through installation instructions, they are well covered in original blog post.  This post covers features available in release 0.4.0 Here are a few new features you might find of interest: Used Memory Memory usage in ... Read More