Tag: Hardware

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

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Sandra Pattison; Both Roku and the Amazon Fire TV Stick — commonly referred to as Firestick — are two of the top streaming devices on today’s market, especially for cord-cutters. No matter whether you’re a Netflix nut or an anime ‎aficionado, there are tons of streaming services and content available on both platforms. That said, there are some differences with Roku vs Firestick when it comes to usability and features. Key Takeaways: Firestick is a better choice for Amazon Prime members and those who have Amazon Smart devices.Roku is a better choice overall, though, and it works ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Brian Murray; Using a VPN has become easier and easier over the years. A VPN with a good user interface — like the one we looked at in our ExpressVPN review — can make it as easy as pressing a single button to get securely connected to the internet through your VPN. However, it’s possible to make it even easier by skipping the VPN client entirely and setting up your VPN right on your router. Key Takeaways: Using a VPN on your router is a great way to protect all of your devices at once.While not all ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksander Hougen; For a long time, LastPass was the undisputed king of free password managers, but recent updates to its free version has changed that. In this article, we’ll get into what these changes are and how they affect the users, as well as provide you with a list of password managers if you’re looking for a LastPass alternative. Key Takeaways: A recent update to LastPass in 2021 means that free users can only use their account on either mobile devices or computers, but not both.Bitwarden and KeePass are the top choices for free password management now ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: JottR on R. [This article was first published on JottR on R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. This is a guest post by Chris Paciorek, Department of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley. In this post, I’ll demonstrate that you can easily use the future package in R on a cluster of machines running in the cloud, specifically on a Kubernetes cluster. This allows you to easily ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Josiah Salser. The Internet of Things (IoT) has matured to support the telecom industry by becoming an integral part of concepts like self-driving vehicles and industrial IoT. The Telecom industry, in fact, is amongst the biggest players in the IoT. The use of IoT in telecom already impacts the communication between devices and humans. Users experience extraordinary user interfaces, as telecom is revolutionizing services, inventory, network segmentation, and operations. The telecom industry is nowhere stopping reliance on IoT. The further expansion of IoT allows telecom to deliver revenue generation & customer ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Already in 2021, we’ve seen enterprise tech acquisitions in hardware, software, and services that have topped $1 billion — although so far there’s nothing to rival the two blockbuster deals announced in 2020, Salesforce.com’s $27.7 billion offer for Slack and AMD’s $35 billion bid for Xilinx, both of which have yet to close.The pace of acquisitions will increase in 2021, according to two-thirds of company executives, bankers, and other dealmakers surveyed by Morrison & Foerster last December. That’s the most optimistic forecast in almost seven years, according to the law firm.The enterprise software and services landscape ... Read More