Tag: Linux

Feed: IBM Big Data Hub Blog; Author: rob-thomas; Many of today’s top business performers successfully leverage a discipline – data science. Machine learning is one major way to apply data science and with machine learning, the more data we feed in, the better it performs. However, much of the world’s value data cannot be found on the Internet. It sits behind a firewall.Today, IBM and Hortonworks made an exciting announcement that brings data science, machine learning and deep learning to all data, no matter where it resides. The partnership between the two companies will be designed to deliver an integrated and ... Read More

Feed: What's New. You can now create Amazon EMR clusters with custom Amazon Machine Images (AMI) running Amazon Linux. This enables you to preload additional software on your AMI and use AMIs that you customize and control. You can also encrypt the Amazon EBS root volume of your AMIs with AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys. Additionally, you can now adjust the Amazon EBS root volume size for instances in your Amazon EMR cluster. Previously, this was fixed at 10 GiB.   ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Barbara Kessler. Continuing our MSP Partner Spotlight series from last week’s post, Unlocking Hybrid Architecture’s Potential with DevOps, automation is another critical area of capability for next generation Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Automation incorporating elements such as configuration templates, code deployment automation, and self-healing infrastructure reduces the need for manual interventions, the potential for errors, and the operating costs for MSPs.  This week we hear from Cloudreach (APN Premier and MSP Partner, with numerous AWS Competencies) and their perspective on the value of automation in the cloud. Automation in the Cloud By: Neil ... Read More

Feed: IDERA Community Blog; Author: bscalzo; I’m often asked by people “Which database is best?” That’s an extremely subjective question which nonetheless can be answered objectively. If by best they mean which database I prefer, then the answer is obviously Oracle. I’ve spent over 30 years working with Oracle databases. I’m an Oracle ACE, routinely speak at Oracle events, and have written 10 books mostly on Oracle database topics. But that’s a completely subjective answer based upon personal preference due to comfort zone. If however by best they instead mean which database I prefer for a given use case or ... Read More

Feed: IDERA Community Blog; Author: bscalzo; We are pleased to announce the general availability of DB PowerStudio 16.6. Existing users may upgrade to this latest version via the online downloads. New users may download the trial version from the IDERA Website.DB PowerStudio combines four innovative products (DBArtisan, Rapid SQL, DB Change Manager and DB Optimizer) to help database professionals build and maintain mission-critical database systems, streamline database change management processes, capture workloads for performance review, plus quickly pinpoint and tune SQL performance bottlenecks. What’s New in DBArtisan and Rapid SQL 16.6? Additional Oracle Database Feature Support The Database Explorer has been updated to now include complete ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: jessica-lee; Data is a potent business resource and the key to gaining and maintaining competitive advantage. Last month, IBM and Hortonworks announced a partnership to bring data science to the world on an open platform, offering Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) along with IBM Data Science Experience (DSX) and IBM Big SQL to help everyone from data scientists to business leaders better analyze and manage their data and accelerate data-driven decision making. This collaboration marks the coming together of an industry leading 100% open source Hadoop distribution, an innovative data ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: chris-gillar; If you read a lot of development blogs nowadays, you’ll probably notice a common theme: developers don’t want to deal with databases. They want to focus on designing, building, testing, and deploying applications that deliver value to the business as quickly as possible.Because of this, developers often instinctively reach for whichever database platform minimizes the amount of time needed to design a schema, and allows them to get started fast. Focusing on the speed of development and the ability to “fail fast” is commendable, but this approach doesn’t ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Kartik P V R. Today, we are excited to announce that Instant recovery of files and folders from Azure VM backups by Azure Backup is now generally available (GA). This adds to the repertoire of cloud-first features we have been delivering from Azure Backup. We earlier announced that File-folder recovery from Azure Windows VM backups and Linux VM backups were available in preview. We received great feedback from preview and we have enhanced the feature in terms of customer experience, security, and performance. Value Proposition Recap To recap the value proposition, with this file recovery ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Justin Kestelyn. One of the first questions Cloudera customers raise when getting started with Apache Hadoop is how to select appropriate hardware for their new Hadoop clusters. Although Hadoop is designed to run on industry-standard hardware, recommending an ideal cluster configuration is not as easy as delivering a list of hardware specifications. Selecting hardware that provides the best balance of performance and economy for a given workload requires testing and validation. (For example, users with IO-intensive workloads will invest in more spindles per core.) In this blog post, you’ll learn some of the ... Read More

Feed: Percona Database Performance Blog. Author: Dave Avery. Dave Avery  | July 19, 2017 |  Posted In: Database Poll, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL PREVIOUS POST In this post, we’ll use a blog poll to find out what operating system you use to run your development database servers. In our last blog poll, we looked at what OS you use for your production database. Now we would like to see what you use for your development database. As databases grow to meet more challenges and expanding application demands, they must try and get the maximum amount of performance out of available resources. How they work ... Read More