Tag: Microsoft

Feed: Planet big data. Author: David Smith. In case you missed them, here are some articles from November of particular interest to R users. David Gerard assesses the plausibility of a key plot point in 'Jurassic Park' with simulations in R. In-database R is available in Azure SQL Database for private preview.  Introducing AzureR, a new suite of R packages for managing Azure resources in R. The AzureRMR package provides an interface for Resource Manager. Roundup of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science news from November 2018. You can now use the AI capabilities of Microsoft Cognitive Services within a container ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Chris Lema; Imagine this scenario: You’re shopping for wireless headphones on an eCommerce website. You have some general questions. So, you head over to the site’s FAQ where you find out that algorithms called audio codecs help determine sound quality in headphones.There’s a link in the FAQ to one of the site’s blog articles where you can “learn more.” You read the article. Now, you’re feeling informed and confident. Below the article is an ad for a pair of wireless headphones that supports the codecs you just described. You click and buy.The scenario represents a common ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Whatever your industry, data is central to how organizations function. When we discuss data strategy with customers, it’s often in the context of how do they ingest, store, process, analyze, distribute, and ultimately secure data.Amazon EMR is a managed Hadoop framework that you use to process vast amounts of data. One of the reasons that customers choose Amazon EMR is its security features. For example, customers like FINRA in regulated industries such as financial services, and in healthcare, choose Amazon EMR as part of their data strategy. They do so to adhere to strict regulatory ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Kitty Chou. Starting with the Tableau 2019.2 release in the second quarter of 2019, we are updating our minimum machine specifications to deploy a Tableau Server trial. For Tableau Server versions 2019.2 and beyond, you will need a 4-core processor and 16 GB of RAM. This is to support a better experience with enterprise features that we’ve added in recent releases. We’ve outlined these changes below. Note that our production Tableau Server min spec remains unchanged. Current Trial Min Spec Updated Trial Min Spec Production Min Spec (unchanged) Machine Cores (Physical or Virtual) 2 cores 4 ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; It’s tough to navigate the vast market of online backup solutions. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the best online backup solutions to help you choose. That said, if you still can’t make up your mind and you’re weighing CloudBerry Backup vs Acronis True Image, you’re in the right place. We’re going to compare them in this article to see which service is better. Acronis True Image is a standard online backup service, but CloudBerry Backup needs a partner service because it isn’t. Rather, it is an infrastructure-as-a-service solution that doesn’t offer backup space ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. MemSQL CEO Nikita Shamgunov was featured recently on the Data Engineering Podcast with host Tobias Macey. Tobias drew out Nikita on MemSQL’s origins, our exciting present, and where we’re going in the future. We share a few highlights here, but we also urge you to listen to the full episode. The podcast covered a wide variety of topics. In this blog post, we’ll highlight Nikita’s comments on MemSQL’s origins; setting up and running the MemSQL database; typical use cases; and the future of MemSQL. How MemSQL Started Nikita grew up and was educated in ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Nigel Fenwick. With GE establishing a new stand-alone software business, we examine what it means for existing and potential customers of GE Digital and for GE. What we know: December 13th 2018 – GE announces the formation of a new industrial IoT software business with $1.2bn in revenue (based on GE Digital sales). The new IIoT company (unofficially referred to here as GE Digital 2.0 or GED2) will be given a new brand. GED2 will be a separate legal entity with GE the only shareholder at this time A new Board will be put in ... Read More

Feed: What's New. AWS Deep Learning AMIs also support other popular frameworks and interfaces including TensorFlow, Keras, Gluon, and Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) — pre-installed and fully-configured for you to start developing your deep learning models in minutes while taking full advantage of the computational power of Amazon EC2 instances. When you activate a Conda environment, the Deep Learning AMIs automatically deploy higher-performance builds of frameworks, optimized for the EC2 instance of your choice. For a complete list of frameworks and versions supported by the AWS Deep Learning AMI, see the release notes. Get started quickly with the AWS Deep Learning ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Bryce Merkl Sasaki. By Emil Eifrem, CEO & Co-Founder, Neo4j, Inc. | December 13, 2018Reading time: 8 minutes Just yesterday, I got to announce the addition of Denise Persson – CMO at Snowflake – to the Neo4j Board of Directors.Today, I get to announce another incredibly important executive appointment: Mike Asher has joined Neo4j as our inaugural chief financial officer (CFO).Since Mike works from our global headquarters in San Mateo, California, he and I recently got to sit down for an interview. Here’s how it went.For readers who don’t know you, could you tell ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Kavya Sinha. V3 is the latest upgrade for Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS). Azure Backup Server can now be installed on Windows Server 2019 with SQL 2017 as its database. MABS V3 brings key enhancements in the areas of storage and security. Security Preventing critical volumes’ data loss While selecting volumes for storage that should be used for backups by MABS, user may accidently select the wrong volume. Selecting volumes containing critical data may result in unexpected data loss. With MABS V3 you can prevent this by disabling these volumes to be available for backup ... Read More