Tag: Hardware

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; This is a three-part blog series. Be on the lookout for parts two and three in the coming days.There was no reason to plan for it, but the load on your system increased 100%, 300%, 500%, and your MySQL database has to support it. This is a reality many online systems have to deal with these days. This series focuses on dealing with the unexpected high traffic event as it is happening.There are also a lot of things you can do proactively, which we covered in “Prepare Your Databases for High Traffic on ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon WorkSpaces now allows customers to bring their own licenses (BYOL) to WorkSpaces in the AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. With BYOL, you can now add your own Windows 10 licenses to WorkSpaces and use the Windows Desktop operating system on your Amazon WorkSpaces running on hardware that is dedicated to you. This option entitles you to a discount per month per WorkSpace, and also allows you to use a single Windows 10 Desktop golden image on-premises and for your Amazon WorkSpaces.   ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has resources and tools to make remote work and e-learning as easy as possible customers during this unprecedented time.AWS solutions include remote desktops and applications, tools for communication and collaboration, and contact center solutions. Employees, contact center agents, and students can work remotely and learn more easily with Amazon Connect, Amazon WorkSpaces, and Amazon AppStream 2.0, among others. For customers, AWS contact center solutions and remote desktop and application services can be deployed quickly and scale globally with the help of AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners. In ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The R5 instance family is based on the Amazon EC2 Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and a lightweight hypervisor that delivers practically all the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your database instance. With a 1:8 vCPU to memory ratio, R5 instances are well suited for running memory-intensive database workloads ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Raman Kumar. Today, we're announcing the general availability for server-side encryption (SSE) with customer-managed keys (CMK) for Azure Managed Disks. Azure customers already benefit from SSE with platform-managed keys for Managed Disks enabled by default. SSE with CMK improves on platform-managed keys by giving you control of the encryption keys to meet your compliance need. Today, customers can also use Azure Disk Encryption, which leverages the Windows BitLocker feature and the Linux dm-crypt feature to encrypt Managed Disks with CMK within the guest virtual machine (VM). SSE with CMK improves on Azure Disk encryption by enabling ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Google Stadia and Shadow are two of the biggest names in cloud gaming. Both offer excellent remote gaming experiences, earning spots in our best cloud gaming guide. In this Google Stadia vs Shadow comparison, however, only one can emerge victorious.  We’re going to compare the services in game support, device support, coverage, performance, pricing, ease of use and features to see which is the better option for your money. Google Stadia and Shadow take very different approaches to cloud gaming, and we’ll be taking into account all of those differences throughout this guide.  Still, you ... Read More

Feed: CronJ. Author: keerti; Medical apps for doctors can analyze communications between experts and patients, provide access to medical and patient data, and promote quick collaboration among healthcare professionals. Medical apps for doctors are beneficial for both the doctors and the patients. The patients want to have an online doctor visit. The doctors also now, on the other hand, can serve from all the information about health requirements and their treatments available online.There are various different types of medical apps for doctors, which all solve different problems. Apps are not just about comfort, the satisfaction rate is higher than ever, ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; While there is no magic bullet for MySQL 5.7 database tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. While much information has been published on this topic over the years, I wanted to break down some of the more critical settings that anyone can implement – with no guesswork required.Depending on the version of MySQL you are running, some of the default values used in this post may differ from your install, but the premise is still largely the ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Sampa Choudhuri. Modern businesses don’t run on a single application – they leverage many IT systems to provide the capabilities to enable operational processes and users to be effective.  To ensure complex IT environments run smoothly, companies are placing increased focus on how systems are integrated, and the activities required to manage integrations across the ecosystem.  While system integration is a multi-layered challenge, the essential part to get right is your enterprise data integration strategy.An enterprise data integration strategy is a set of policies, processes, design guidelines, and governance controls that you put in place to ensure ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Edgar Haren. Organizations across the globe are using advanced analytics and data science to predict and make decisions. They are finding ways to use their vast and diverse data stores to predict the best place to put their next retail store, what products to recommend to customers, how many employees they need for peak hours of operation, and how long a piece of machinery has until it needs maintenance. Public sector organizations in government, education, nonprofit, and healthcare are looking to use data to advance their missions too.Expanding and improving government response ... Read More