Tag: Hardware

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Storage Gateway is expanding the ways you can purchase the AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance, and for the first-time enabling resellers to offer the appliance. Now you can procure the hardware appliance through the reseller of your choice, and leverage your existing purchasing agreements. AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that provides on-premises applications access to virtually unlimited storage in the cloud. You can use AWS Storage Gateway for backing up and archiving data to AWS, providing on-premises file shares backed by cloud storage, and providing on-premises applications low latency access to data in ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Mike Nashadka. By Mike Nashadka, Chief Technology Officer – 42QBy Scott Robertson, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect – AWS 42Q Much of the hardware used on the factory floor today has been in place for many years, and managing these devices from the internet often requires replacement of the hardware. Utilizing AWS IoT Greengrass and AWS Lambda functions allow legacy hardware to be maintained, while providing full internet connectivity and management. This post will explain how 42Q, an AWS Industrial Software Competency Partner, uses AWS IoT Greengrass to allow legacy label printers to be cloud-enabled ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rani Borkar. Leading hardware engineering at a company known for its vast portfolio of software applications and systems is not as strange as it sounds, as the Microsoft Cloud depends on hardware as the foundation of trust, reliability, capacity, and performance, to make it possible for Microsoft and our customers to achieve more. The underlying infrastructure that powers our 60 plus datacenter regions across 140 countries consists of hardware and systems that sit within the physical buildings of datacenters—enabling millions of customers to execute critical and advanced workloads, such as AI and quantum computing, as ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Kit Copson; The streaming world has been flourishing for a long time now. As awesome as that is, we know how difficult it can be to keep up with all the new streaming devices and streaming services. In this post, we’re going to put two media streaming giants head to head in a Firestick vs Chromecast showdown.  Key Takeaways: Amazon Fire TV devices and Chromecasts are simple, cost-effective methods of getting smart TV functionality without paying smart TV prices. The device you choose comes down mostly to personal preference. Chromecast with Google TV wins points for the exceptionally ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Zaid Kahn. This year’s theme for OCP Global Summit is Open Possibilities, and in the Microsoft Azure team, we wholeheartedly agree—we have been part of tremendous creativity and resiliency as the community continued to collaborate, despite the challenges posed by the pandemic. This year, we are excited to showcase some of our projects and technology at OCP Global Summit and share our learnings on the path of building a more reliable, trusted, and sustainable cloud alongside industry partners and the open source hardware ecosystem. Accelerating open source innovation over the years As OCP celebrates its ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Vanitha Ramaswami. By Vanitha Ramaswami and David Walters, Partner Solutions Architects, IoT – AWSBy Tom Inoue, Business Development Engineer – Murata ElectronicsBy Gonzague Fraval, Product Marketing Connectivity Modules – Murata ElectronicsBy Matthew Salmanpour, Staff Product Marketing Engineer – Infineon/Cypress Building Internet of Things (IoT) device hardware is complex, and development often exceeds 18 months from concept to production. Hardware developers are looking for guidance on design considerations and development trade-offs to decrease hardware design time and increase the value their connected devices can bring. Every choice a hardware developer makes impacts the cost ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Marcelo Altmann; Chasing bugs can be a tedious task, and multi-threaded software doesn’t make it any easier. Threads will be scheduled at different times, instructions will not have deterministic results, and in order for one to reproduce a particular issue, it might require the exact same threads, doing the exact same work, at the exact same time. As you can imagine, this is not straightforward. Let’s say your database is crashing or even having a transient stall.  By the time you get to it, the crash has happened and you are stuck restoring service quickly and ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: kulbhushan. According to a recent study from market research firm Global Market Insights, The need for data center infrastructure market management among organizations to offer higher energy-efficiencies will be positively driven by the influx of cloud computing, Big Data, and AI solutions. The surge in internet infrastructure activities has led to the generation of large quantities of data by individuals and connected devices.The rising levels of data traffic have placed an immense power burden on data centers on account of the significant jump in the usage of IoT devices. This has ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R on Chemometrics & Spectroscopy using R. Last summer, a GSOC project was approved for work on the hyperSpec package which had grown quite large and hard to maintain. The essence of the project was to break the original hyperSpec package into smaller packages. As part of that project, we needed to be able to: Provide development versions of packages Provide large data-only packages (potentially too large to be hosted on CRAN). In this post I’ll describe how we used Dirk Eddelbuettel’s drat package and Github Actions to automate the deployment of packages between repositories. What is ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Samson Max; VPN providers offer an extensive network of server locations, but not all are real physical servers. While all VPN servers perform the same function — spoofing your location through a VPN tunnel — sometimes you have to choose between a virtual server vs physical server. VPN services may offer both types, and we’ll discuss the difference between the two to help you choose the right one. Key Takeaways: VPNs can use two types of servers: physical and virtual. Though they function in much the same way to the end user, a virtual servers’ performance can ... Read More