Tag: Linux

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; As the second best in our VPN reviews, NordVPN is clearly a favorite here at Cloudwards.net. It has taken a spot in several guides, including the best VPN for New Zealand and the best VPN for Russia, thanks to its excellent security and vast server network. Private Internet Access is no slouch, either. It put up a good fight against our top-rated provider, ExpressVPN, in our ExpressVPN vs PIA comparison. Like NordVPN, it took a spot in a few guides, too, most notably the best VPN for Sweden and the best VPN for Spain. Both ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon EFS provides simple, scalable, elastic file system for Linux-based workloads for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. It is easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows you to create and configure file systems quickly and easily. Amazon EFS is built to scale on demand to petabytes without disrupting applications, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, so your applications have the storage they need – when they need it. It is designed to provide massively parallel shared access to thousands of Amazon EC2 instances, enabling your applications to ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R on kieranhealy.org. Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction will begin shipping next week. I’ve written an R package that contains datasets, functions, and a course packet to go along with the book. The socviz package contains about twenty five datasets and a number of utility and convenience functions. The datasets range in size from things with just a few rows (used for purely illustrative purproses) to datasets with over 120,000 observations, for practicing with and exploring. A course packet is also included the package. This is a zipped file containing an R Studio project consisting of nine ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Asavari Tayal. Azure Functions provides a powerful programming model for accelerated development and serverless hosting of event-driven applications. Ever since we announced the general availability of the Azure Functions 2.0 runtime, support for Python has been one of our top requests. At Microsoft Connect() last week, we announced the public preview of Python support in Azure Functions. This post gives an overview of the newly introduced experiences and capabilities made available through this feature. What's in this release? With this release, you can now develop your Functions using Python 3.6, based on the open-source Functions ... Read More

Feed: Hazelcast Blog. Author: Rafal Leszko. Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) is a container orchestration service that supports Docker containers. It allows to create scalable clusters backed up by EC2 Instances. Hazelcast IMDG is distributed in a form of Docker Image and provides the plugin for auto discovery in the AWS environment, therefore it can be simply configured to work on AWS ECS. This post presents this process step-by-step and the source code for this example can be found here. Step 1: Create AWS ECS Cluster First, you need a working AWS ECS Cluster. To create it, open AWS ECS ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Henry Axelrod, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSThe ability for modern organizations to share information and documents is more important than ever. In today’s global environment, having file sharing that is limited to a single datacenter is no longer sufficient for many companies. IT administrators need to provide business-efficient ways to share those documents. File sync and share platforms allow companies to share files within their organization, beyond the boundaries of their own datacenter. Instead of accessing all files from a single location, with sync and share the files can be ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Brian Lewis, Solutions Architect at AWSOne of the great things the cloud has brought information technology is the high-end service that abstracts away much of the grunt work that was traditionally required. Removing the need to procure servers, switches, and routers, and then place them in a rack, has been a benefit from the very beginning. As Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to add and evolve service offerings, customers can gain enhanced agility by abstracting away even more of the traditional grunt work like service configuration and patching. This enables ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle today announced the Oracle Cloud Native Framework, providing developers a cloud native solution that spans public cloud, on premises and hybrid cloud deployments. Capitalizing on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and the recently announced Oracle Linux Cloud Native Environment, the Oracle Cloud Native Framework introduces a rich set of cloud native managed services and on-premises software. The Oracle Cloud Native Framework also introduces Oracle Functions, a new breakthrough serverless cloud service based on the open source Fn Project. As organizations move to the cloud, they are facing new and difficult challenges addressing cultural change and increased ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Dan Taylor. We’re excited to officially announce the public preview of the built-in Python images for Azure App Service on Linux, a much requested feature by our customers. Developers can get started today deploying Python Web Apps to the cloud, on a fully-managed environment running on top of the Linux operating system. This new preview runtime adds to a list of growing stacks supported by Azure App Service on Linux, which includes also Node.js, .NET Core, PHP, Java SE, Tomcat, and Ruby. With the choice of Python 3.7, 3.6 and soon 2.7, developers can get ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Privacy is one of our main concerns here at Cloudwards.net. We tout the best tools to maintain it, too, many of which come with a price tag. While we do our best to mention free tools, as well, many of the options fly under the radar. That’s why we’ve put together a guide of 99 free tools to protect your privacy. While most come with some downsides, the options we found will maintain your anonymity on your desktop and online. While we’ve tested most of the tools on the list, we haven’t tested them all ... Read More