Tag: IOT

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Katarina Milic. In Q1 2018, the Serbian economy grew by 4.5 percent, well ahead of forecasts. The data science community also grew, rapidly attracting talent and energy, but still not fast enough to meet demand! Things Solver is a Serbia-based data analytics and engineering company working with customers worldwide, and is one of SAS’ local partners in the European region. I caught up with them to understand more about their origins, their plans for the future, and how their involvement in the local data science community is helping them to grow. Tell us about how the ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. HOAP databases combine transaction processing and analytics processing in a single fast, responsive, SQL-compliant database. HOAP databases, such as MemSQL, greatly simplify your data architecture, while offering improvements in both performance and price. MemSQL is an outstanding example of a modern HOAP database, with a rapidly growing customer base, and is already used for critical processing in high tech, media, finance, and government, among other sectors. MemSQL is also simply a very fast relational database, maintaining the highest levels of performance, and cost-effective at enterprise scale. To learn more, view our webinar, or read ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Mariya Zorotovich. Today’s consumers are using more devices and channels to interact with retailers than ever before. Seamless service across all channels is the expectation, not the exception. Digital-first brands are raising the bar for hyper-personalized experiences through their test-and-learn approach to rapid delivery of modern commerce capabilities. As we all know, traditional brick and mortar retailers are under significant pressure due to high fixed costs associated with managing traditional store infrastructure, material decreases, and flat year-over-year comp-store revenue. A consequence of this pressure is the inability to innovate and create new, competitive user experiences ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Guest. You would’ve heard of driverless cars. The technology would soon be redefining the way people commute, not only around the world but between and in cities as well. Driverless technology is not only being applied to personal vehicles, but also to commercial transportation. Driverless trucks are the natural evolution of driverless cars. They will cut down on costs, increase efficiency, and generally shake up the shipping industry. Let’s look at how artificial intelligence technology is changing the outlook of the freight industry. Drivers However, at the moment, “driverless trucks” will be a misnomer ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Visitors to the Groundbreaker Hub at Oracle Code One will be able to get their hands on the Code Card. To support and empower the developer community, Oracle Code One will take place alongside Oracle OpenWorld on October 22 to 25 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Oracle’s premier event for developers has expanded to include more languages, technologies and developer communities. Oracle Code One will cover a wide range of topics from AI, blockchain, digital assistants and containers to Java and more languages such as Go, Rust and Python. Registration is still open to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Nandakishor Basavanthappa. A few months ago, we released a significant update to the Azure IoT Reference Architecture, a downloadable resource that aims to accelerate customers building IoT solutions on Azure by providing a proven production ready architecture and technology implementation choices. Today, we are happy to release updated version 2.1 of the Azure IoT Reference Architecture. The document offers an overview of the IoT space, recommended subsystem factoring for scalable IoT solutions, prescriptive technology recommendations per subsystem, and detailed sections that explore use cases and technology alternatives. This latest version of the guide includes four ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Maxim Lukiyanov. Today, we are pleased to reveal the preview of HDInsight IO Cache, a new transparent data caching feature of Azure HDInsight that provides customers with up to a 9x performance improvement for Apache Spark jobs. We know from our customers that when it comes to analytics cost efficiency of managed cloud-based Apache Hadoop and Spark services is one of their major attractors. HDInsight IO Cache allows us to improve this key value proposition even further by improving performance without a corresponding increase in costs. Architecture Azure HDInsight is a cloud platform service for ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Daniel Escapa. Last month at our Ignite conference in Orlando, we proudly announced the public preview of Azure Digital Twins, a new platform for comprehensive digital models and spatially aware solutions that can be applied to any physical environment. Today, we take the next step in the journey of simplifying IoT for our customers and are happy to announce that Azure Digital Twins is now officially live. Starting today, customers and partners can create an Azure account and begin using Azure Digital Twins. We encourage you to explore the content available in the Azure Digital ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Renata Melnyk. The AWS Competency Program welcomed 47 new AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners in September—spanning workload, solution, and industry designations. Please join us in welcoming our newest AWS Competency Partners!The AWS Competency Program helps customers identify and choose the world’s top APN Partners that have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in specialized solution areas. To receive the AWS Competency designation, APN Partners must undergo rigorous technical validation related to industry-specific technology, as well as an assessment of the security, performance, and reliability of their AWS solutions. This validation gives customers complete confidence in choosing APN ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. A data lake provides a centralized repository that you can use to store all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. A data lake can include both raw datasets and curated, query-optimized datasets. Raw datasets can be quickly ingested, in their original form, without having to force-fit them into a predefined schema. Using data lakes, you can run different types of analytics on both raw and curated datasets. By using Amazon S3 as the storage layer of your data lakes, you can have a set of rich controls at both the bucket and object ... Read More