Tag: monitoring

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Kateryna Lytvynova. When you give customers advice that can help them save some money, they will pay you back with loyalty, which is priceless. Interesting fact: Fareboom users started spending twice as much time per session within a month of the release of an airfare price forecasting feature. This tool continues to grow conversion for our partner. Besides travel, price predictions find their application in various scenarios. Commodity traders, investors, construction developers, or energy generators use estimates on future price movements for business purposes. This time we talked with experts from AleaSoft, ENFOR, ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Richard Charles, PhD. I’m frustrated! Being a Technophile poses several problems that seem to go unaddressed by leaders of the “Big Tech” firms. As the big firms such as Apple, Google and Samsung continue to develop impressively beautiful, technologically capable, faster and yes, addictive technologies, consumers are left with solving a very complex problem. That is, “how does one optimize the use and efficacy of their technology devices?” To answer this question, I must share with you that I have yet to solve the problem. However, my use of my desktop, ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL High Availability; With the release of version 8.0.16 of MySQL, we’ve added some features to the Group Replication (GR) plugin, in order to enhance its high-availability capacities. One of these features was the ability to enable a member that has left the group, under certain circumstances, to automatically rejoin it, without need of intervention by the user. In order to understand the benefits of this feature and how to use it, we’ll quickly look at the concepts behind it and what motivates its existence in the first place. Introduction As you are probably aware by ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Vivek Raju. By Kautham Dhanasekaran, Solutions Architect at Tech MahindraBy Saurabh Shrivastava, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Vivek Raju, Manager, Global Integrator SA at AWSAs cloud becomes the new normal, many businesses want to use its potential to improve their customer experience. Amazon Web Services (AWS) helps businesses migrate to the cloud and provides best practices for the modernization of their applications. Organizations all around the world are using the breadth and depth of AWS services to become more cloud-native. Telia used the AWS platform to modernize their customer information management (CIM) platform ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jake Fellows; Traffic Means BusinessYou want your company to be popular. You want to be #trending. Today, it’s a part of doing business.However, trending means traffic and traffic means a heavy load on your servers.Can your servers—your site—handle viral marketing campaigns and social media campaigns where incoming end users can spike dramatically?Can you host a live stream or media event without having to worry about slowdowns or (we shudder even thinking about it) a total systems failure?One way you can make sure that you’re ready for whatever comes your way (well, your site’s way, anyway) is ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Meir Mendelovich. Logs are critical for many scenarios in the modern digital world. They are used in tandem with metrics for observability, monitoring, troubleshooting, usage and service level analytics, auditing, security, and much more. Any plan to build an application or IT environment should include a plan for logs. Logs architecture There are two main paradigms for logs: Centralized: All logs are kept in a central repository. In this scenario, it is easy to search across resources and cross-correlate logs but, since these repositories get big and include logs from all kind of sources, it's ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Lily Kim. Today, I’m excited to share our ability to provide Azure public services that meet US Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High impact level and extend FedRAMP High Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) to all of our Azure public regions in the United States. In October, we told customers of our plan to expand public cloud services and regions from FedRAMP Moderate to FedRAMP High impact level. FedRAMP High was previously available only to customers using Azure Government. Additionally, we’ve increased the number of services available at High impact level to 90, ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Ilan Hertz. It has been a year since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force. Although it’s still in its infancy, GDPR is already a big consideration for organizations as they address the issues of data privacy, secure data access, and how they gather and use customer data.As a means of harmonizing data privacy laws across Europe and protecting customers’ personally identifiable information (PII), GDPR has shown that it has really got teeth. On its first day in force, complaints against Google were filed in France. By January this year, CNIL, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Phil de Valence. By Michael Buzzetti, Principal Engineer at The New York TimesBy Barry Tait, Director of Modernization and Cloud Strategies at Modern SystemsBy Phil de Valence, Solutions Architect for Mainframe Modernization at AWSThe New York Times had a critical business workload running on a mainframe as the core IT system supporting the daily Home Delivery Platform of its newspaper. They collaborated with Modern Systems, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Select Technology Partner, to successfully transform their legacy COBOL-based application into a modern Java-based application, which today runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Brian Williams. As a Solutions Architect for Blue Medora I have helped many end users of VMware’s vRealize Operations achieve operational visibility of their entire VMware infrastructure.  Today I wanted to address a very common question I receive during deployment. “How can I track Windows Service availability or Linux Process usage?” While Blue Medora can extend to many aspects of the environment, such as Server, Networking, Storage, Databases, and Applications, we also want to see the Operating Systems.  Having performance metrics, capacity information, and critical alerting of your operating systems is critical to building the completed ... Read More