Tag: Office

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. As CYBERTEC keeps expanding, we need a lot more office space than we previously did. Right now, we have a solution in the works: a new office building. We wanted something beautiful, so we started to dig into mathematical proportions to achieve a reasonable level of beauty. We hoped to make the building not just usable, but also to have it liked by our staff.I stumbled upon some old books about proportions in architecture and went to work. Fortunately, one can use PostgreSQL to do some of the more basic calculations needed.Basic rules for beautyThis is of ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksandar Kochovski; So you’re in the market for cloud storage, but all the payment plans you see offer either too little or too much online storage; a 1TB cloud storage plan hits the sweet spot for you. Luckily, there are a few quality services that offer 1TB of cloud storage, and we’ve rounded them up for you in this list. Key Takeaways: When it comes to storing only a single terabyte of online data, there aren’t that many cloud storage options.Only three cloud providers offer exactly 1TB of cloud storage, and Icedrive is the best of the ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Digital initiatives come in many flavors and vary widely, but they do have one thing in common and that’s data. That’s why the need to easily manage, analyze, and find key insights—and those “a-ha” moments—from data is critical to achieving and maintaining a market-leading position.  One quick look at leading companies today and it’s easy to see they aren’t just technology-centric companies, but data-centric ones. The challenge for most companies is how to make data management simple and efficient.Problems with data management today stem from the fact that data is being generated from so many places ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Paulo Vitor Pereira. By Paulo Vitor Pereira, Cloud Application Architect at AWSBy Phil de Valence, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS With an increased pace of innovation and demand for faster development and testing cycles, customers with mainframes want to adopt DevOps practices for their z/OS environments. To facilitate these practices, IBM offers the IBM Z Development and Test (ZD&T), a hardware emulation solution that allows regular z/OS software to run on the x86 platform by emulating the IBM Z instruction set, IO, and other devices. Aside from increasing development and test agility, IBM ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Louise Dubé. iCivics is the education nonprofit that US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor founded in 2009 to transform civic education and rebuild civic strength through digital games and lesson plans. It is the largest provider of civic education content in the US and is currently used by more than 120,500 educators and 7.6 million students annually. All of its games are free, nonpartisan, and available at www.icivics.org. This guest post is by Louise Dubé, executive director of iCivics. Why a US Supreme Court Justice turned to digital games When Justice Sandra Day ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Enzo. Neerav Vyas is the Head of Analytics at Realogy Holdings Corp. As an economist and a Neo4j user, he helps clients with graph analytics.In this presentation, Vyas illustrates how the journey of real estate should be a connected process and shares the story of his own move to New York City.He explains the current real estate landscape, from finding an agent for buying/selling/renting, to finding a home in the right neighborhood for the right price. The process consists of aggregating and curating various bits of disparate data over an unlimited amount of time, ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; If you’re just getting into project management, you can quickly become overwhelmed by the many ways in which you can approach managing tasks. You could use scrum boards or Gantt charts, to name two examples. However, if you’re just starting out, it’s probably best to use a kanban board. (You can skip straight to our instructions by clicking this link.) Key Takeaways: Kanban boards are the simplest way to keep track of projects and tasks, making them a great way for people new to task management to learn the ropes.Thanks to its layout, a kanban ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Abby Drexler. As we experience the second wave of the COVID-19 infections, it’s going to take some time before we go back to the office. Therefore, we have to accept working from home as the new norm. By now, you’ve experienced challenges that make you wish you could go back to the office. For example, being at the same place from morning to evening, seven days a week can become monotonous and boring.Privacy and online security is another challenge for online workers. Fraudsters are using all tools at their disposal to try to steal ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; For law firms and lawyers, having the best cloud storage is absolutely a must. Few other businesses move sensitive data around as quickly as law firms do, passing confidential documents to clients and receiving sensitive information from others. The best cloud storage for lawyers ensures all of those transfers are kept safe.  We’ve rounded up the five top services — as well as a single honorable mention — that deliver the best in security for lawyers and law firms. Not only will the services below keep your files safe from external threats, but they’ll also ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Thomas Keil. It became very clear that a solid mathematical and scientific education is a must for these disciplines, especially when it comes to statistics. And with the increasing amount of big medical data, statisticians had to become data scientists and keep expanding their competencies along the way. So, it comes with no surprise that there already is an association of those specialists to benefit from each other’s knowledge – called “PHUSE”. PHUSE is an independent, not-for-profit global community and platform for the discussion of topics encompassing the work of data managers, biostatisticians, statistical programmers, data ... Read More