Tag: Microsoft

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jody Carlton. Once upon a Time Once upon a time, Oliver S. Füßling merely occupied a line in a SAS® program. But one day, he lost his last name, and a quest began to help our hero find the rest of his name. Our Story Begins The SAS Training Center wanted to re-create course data for the "Introduction to Programming 1" class. The updated class uses SAS® Studio, a new programming environment that incorporates a UTF-8 SAS session encoding. However, the course data sets contained national language characters, which are not available on an English keyboard ... Read More

Feed: What's New. With collaborative editing, users can work together to create content, and make changes to their Microsoft Office files without having to worry about switching applications or file formats. IT administrators do not have to worry about deploying additional software, or purchasing and managing software licenses. This feature provides one more way for users to create and edit content directly in Amazon WorkDocs, by integrating with Hancom Thinkfree Office Online. To get started, site administrators need to enable the feature in the admin console of their WorkDocs site. Once enabled, users can click the New menu option to ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: David Smith. A monthly roundup of news about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. This is an eclectic collection of interesting blog posts, software announcements and data applications I've noted over the past month or so. Open Source AI, ML & Data Science News Intel open-sources NLP Architect, a Python library for deep learning with natural language. Gym Retro, an open source platform for reinforcement learning research on video games. Facebook open-sources DensePose, a toolkit to transform 2D images of people into a 3-D surface map of the human body. MLflow, an open source ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Brock Peterson. Management packs are an efficient and effective way for admins to optimize their cloud-based IT infrastructure by extending and enhancing their management platforms. Management packs are highly popular across the industry with such well-known solutions as Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Oracle’s System Monitoring plug-in for Oracle Virtual Networking that extends its Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, and VMware vRealize Operations. What’s in a management pack?  Specifically, what’s in a Blue Medora management pack for VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vROps)? The adapter itself is the main component, but there are dashboards, content reports, views, ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Roshan Kumar. Multi-tenant software is architected to host multiple tenants sharing the same infrastructure. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, SalesForce, etc. are popular examples of multi-tenancy. Redis Enterprise Cloud, offered by Redis Labs, is also a multi-tenant service with over 500,000 Redis databases sharing the Redis Cloud platform. Redis Enterprise software allows you to create such a multi-tenant environment on-premises or in any infrastructure you control. But why would you need such an environment? If your organization develops a series of in-house applications and microservices, then a multi-tenant environment can save you time and money. Application ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Recently I have been refining and adding utilities to look after our Perl code.  You might be surprised to learn that as well as 1.3 million or so lines of C code, there are about 30,000 lines of Perl code in our sources. This a sizeable body of code, even if it’s dwarfed by our C code. What does it do? Well, lots of things. It runs some very critical code in building from source, so the code to set up our catalogs is created by some Perl code.  All the new data setup for catalogs is ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. The AWS Deep Learning AMIs (Amazon machine images) are now available in AWS GovCloud (US), Amazon’s isolated cloud region built for sensitive data and regulated workloads.Available in Ubuntu and Linux, the AMIs provide fully configured development environments to quickly build artificial intelligence (AI) applications using popular deep learning frameworks including TensorFlow, Apache MXNet and Gluon, PyTorch, Chainer, Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, Caffe, Caffe2, Theano, and Keras, and are optimized for high performance on Amazon EC2 instances. For developers who want a clean slate to set up custom builds of deep learning engines, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Mirek Sztajno. We are delighted to announce that Resumable Online Index Create (ROIC) is now available for public preview in Azure SQL DB. The feature allows the ability to pause an index create operation and resume it later from where the index create operation was paused or failed, rather than having to restart the operation from the beginning. Additionally, this feature creates indexes using only a small amount of log space. You can use the new feature in the following scenarios: Resume an index create operation after an index create failure, such as after a ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Vinod Kurpad. Azure enterprise customers today manage their subscriptions on the EA portal and use the EA hierarchy to group and report on usage and costs by subscription. Until today, the only APIs available for the enterprise hierarchy was the key based APIs, this month we are releasing ARM supported APIs for the enrollment hierarchy. This will enable users with the required privileges to make API calls to the individual nodes in the management hierarchy and get the most current cost and usage information. The benefits of this API is an improved security posture, seamless ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Gaurav Malhotra. Event driven architecture (EDA) is a common data integration pattern that involves production, detection, consumption and reaction to events. Today, we are announcing the support for event based triggers in your Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipelines. A lot of data integration scenarios requires data factory customers to trigger pipelines based on events. A typical event could be file landing or getting deleted in your azure storage. Now you can simply create an event based trigger in your data factory pipeline. As soon as the file arrives in your storage location and the corresponding ... Read More