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Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Mark Needham. Welcome to this week in Neo4j where we round up what’s been happening in the world of graph databases in the last 7 days. This week we have the release of Graphileon Personal Edition, a new Getting Started with Neo4j YouTube series, Intuitive Detections Research with Neo4j, we learn how to build the user timeline of a Neo4j based dating site, and more! This week’s featured community member is Brian Underwood, Platform Engineer at Fishbrain. Brian Underwood – This Week’s Featured Community Member He has been instrumental for the Ruby community, taking ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Joseph Gildred; The benefits of Amazon Glacier for data backup may be a no-brainer when it comes to dollars and cents, but implementation tends to get a smidge puzzling if you don’t know what to do after feeding Amazon your credit card digits. The question is how to get data from your device into a Glacier Vault and, lucky you, we’ve got the answer. Contrary to popular opinion, it isn’t a matter of yelling at your computer screen. The problem is that Amazon Glacier is a data repository, but lacks the means to traffic data data. It ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Marcel Austenfeld. 16.08.2018 A new release of Bio7 is available. The new Bio7 2.9 release comes with a plethora of new R features and bugfixes. Screenshot MacOSX with dark theme and opened ‘R ImageJ Analysis’ perspective Screenshot ‘R’ perspective Windows and opened R-Shell code completion Release Notes: General: Based on Eclipse 4.8 Improved the dark theme and the layout of the dark theme in many places All editor font colors are now changed automatically to default optimized colors when using the dark theme New ‘Switch Theme’ action available to easily switch to the dark theme or back ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Nathan Taber. This post contributed by Subhrangshu Kumar Sarkar, Sr. Technical Account Manager at AWSThe Amazon ECS–optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI) comes prepackaged with the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) container agent, Docker, and the ecs-init service. When updates to these components are released, try to integrate them as quickly as possible. Doing so helps you maintain a safe, secure, and reliable environment for running your containers. Each release of the ECS–optimized AMI includes bug fixes and feature updates. AWS recommends refreshing your container instance fleet with the latest AMI whenever possible, rather than trying ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: David Smith. Microsoft R Open 3.5.1 has been released, combining the latest R language engine with multi-processor performance and tools for managing R packages reproducibly. You can download Microsoft R Open 3.5.1 for Windows, Mac and Linux from MRAN now. Microsoft R Open is 100% compatible with all R scripts and packages, and works with all your favorite R interfaces and development environments. This update brings a number of minor fixes to the R language engine from the R core team. It also makes available a host of new R packages contributed by the community, including ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Dimitri Kravtchuk; 2018-08-14 15:00 | MySQL, Performance, InnoDB, Benchmarks, Sysbench, IO-bound, Optane, DoubleWrite, Binlog This article is inspired by Percona blog post comparing MySQL 8.0 and Percona Server 5.7 on IO-bound workload with Intel Optane storage. There are several claims made by Vadim based on a single test case, which is simply unfair. So, I'll try to clarify this all based on more test results and more tech details.. But before we start, some intro : InnoDB Parallel Flushing -- was introduced with MySQL 5.7 (as a single-thread flushing could no more follow), and implemented as ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sujay Talasila. Microsoft Azure Site Recovery (ASR) offers Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) for applications running in Azure and on-premises. Using ASR, you can reduce application downtime during IT interruptions, without compromising compliance. ASR provides comprehensive coverage for on-premises applications across Linux, Windows, VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines, and physical servers. Azure Site Recovery now powers Veritas Backup Exec Instant Cloud Recovery (ICR) with Backup Exec 20.2 release. With ICR, Backup Exec users can easily configure continuous replication for on-premises virtual machines to Azure for a quick failover in case of a disruption on-premises ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Richard Elberger. By Johan Kraft, CEO at Percepio ABAt the last Embedded World, NXP showed a cool Smart Home demo using the new NXP OM40007 Internet of Things (IoT) kit, featuring a powerful LPC54018 microcontroller and an integrated Qualcomm Wifi module, all powered by Amazon FreeRTOS. The tiny-but-powerful board connected to AWS IoT Core, and NXP also included an Amazon Echo device providing Alexa voice control. For instance, you could ask “Alexa, what is the current temperature?” and she tells you the latest temperature reading from the NXP OM40007 board. As an embedded ... Read More

Feed: What's New. CIS Benchmarks are host hardening guidelines designed to safeguard your Amazon EC2 instance by improving your security posture. The findings generated by an Inspector assessment with the CIS Benchmark rules package detail the guidance and steps needed to reduce vulnerabilities, like insecure configurations and weak password policies. With the recently released one-step setup process for Inspector, you can get started even faster than before and easily run a single security assessment with both CIS and Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVE) rules packages. For one price, you receive the information you need to both harden and patch your ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Martin Yip. Shane Baldacchino is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web ServicesMany customers ask for guidance to migrate end-to-end solutions running in their on-premises data center to AWS. This post provides an overview of moving a common blogging platform, WordPress, running on an on-premises virtualized Microsoft Hyper-V platform to AWS, including re-pointing the DNS records associated to the website. AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS) is an agentless service that makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS. In November 2017, AWS added support for Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor ... Read More