Tag: Pricing

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Google Stadia and Shadow are two of the biggest names in cloud gaming. Both offer excellent remote gaming experiences, earning spots in our best cloud gaming guide. In this Google Stadia vs Shadow comparison, however, only one can emerge victorious.  We’re going to compare the services in game support, device support, coverage, performance, pricing, ease of use and features to see which is the better option for your money. Google Stadia and Shadow take very different approaches to cloud gaming, and we’ll be taking into account all of those differences throughout this guide.  Still, you ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Yuemin Lu. Today marks the general availability of new Azure disk sizes, including 4, 8, and 16 GiB on both Premium and Standard SSDs, as well as bursting support on Azure Premium SSD Disks. To provide the best performance and cost balance for your production workloads, we are making significant improvements to our portfolio of Azure Premium SSD disks. With bursting, even the smallest Premium SSD disks (4 GiB) can now achieve up to 3,500 input/output operations per second (IOPS) and 170 MiB/second. If you have experienced jitters in disk IOs due to unpredictable load and spiky ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. CloudWatch Metrics and object groups enable customers to easily create an operational dashboard for channels, and attach alarms specific to a channel. This provides a simple monitoring solution with just a few clicks. For information on how to use Media Store CloudWatch metrics support, see the documentation pages here. For deeper monitoring, MediaStore access logs provides the ability to dive into individual requests. AWS Elemental MediaStore is a video origination and storage service that offers the high performance, predictable low latency, and immediate consistency required for live streaming media combined with the security and durability AWS offers ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. File Gateway provides on-premises applications with file-based, cached access to virtually unlimited cloud storage using SMB and NFS protocols. With this launch, SMB client operations for files and folders are logged to provide IT administrators and compliance managers with the information they need about user access to files and folders. Key operations logged for files and folders include create, delete, read, write, rename, and change of permissions. The logs are published to Amazon CloudWatch Logs where they can be reviewed and written to an Amazon S3 bucket of your choice and exported for use by third-party security ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Ashley Lozito; Data democratization is one of the key trends in 2020. As we know, the amount of data is growing exponentially – and so is the number of data silos per organization. But more people inside of an organization want to be data-driven in their decision making. As a result, companies of all sizes will need to make this siloed data available across the business so users can more quickly get to valuable insight through data. In fact, it’s not really optional – businesses need to democratize this data to stay competitive.   Citizen Data Professionals need ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Rob Hedgpeth. Today we announced the immediate availability of MariaDB SkySQL, the first DBaaS (database-as-a-service) to unlock the full power of MariaDB Platform on an industry-leading, cloud-native architecture. SkySQL delivers the “MariaDB in the cloud” experience customers have been waiting for – fully featured, fully customizable and backed by world-class support and database expertise from the source, the engineers who built it.MariaDB Enterprise Server, part of MariaDB Platform, is a 100% Open Source modern SQL database. MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.4 extends the capabilities of the widely-deployed MariaDB Community Server with enterprise-focused advanced features, optimized builds, and ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; With the recent releases and updates to multiple cloud gaming platforms, two of the top dogs in the space are Google Stadia and Nvidia GeForce Now. The former offers a console-esque take on cloud gaming, while the latter is a basically a gaming PC in the cloud. We’ll determine which is the better option in this Google Stadia vs GeForce Now comparison.  If you’re looking to play games in the cloud, both are competent services, though there are a plenty of differences between the two. We’re going to compare them in game support, platform support, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Rama Krishnamoorthy. Microsoft Dynamics 365 business applications are uniquely able to help organizations digitally transform by unifying data and intelligence from employees, customers, operations, and devices into one source, creating many opportunities to use digital feedback loops to adapt and improve.To that end, we're announcing dual-write, a new capability that enables data to become available natively on Common Data Service across Finance and Operations apps, and model-driven apps in Dynamics 365.The dual-write solution package covers master data scenarios for customers, products, and vendors, and for end-to-end process flows like prospect to cash, and for ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Anubhav Sharma. By Anubhav Sharma, Partner Solutions Architect, AWS SaaS FactorySoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) presents developers and architects with a unique set of challenges. One essential decision you’ll have to make is how to partition data for each tenant of your system. Tenant isolation, performance, noisy neighbor effect, pricing strategy, and a range of other factors will influence the design choices you make. Your data partitioning strategy will determine how you choose to physically or logically separate one tenant’s data from another. You will also be required to come up with security measures to prevent ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; PlayStation Now and Nvidia’s GeForce Now are two of the oldest cloud gaming services, the former just updating its pricing to compete with the likes of Google Stadia and the latter finally being released by Nvidia after a long beta period. Although they’re two of the best cloud gaming services around, only one can win in this GeForce Now vs PlayStation Now comparison.  We’re going to put the two head to head in features, pricing, game support, platform support, performance, coverage and ease of use, seeing which offers the best overall experience. We’ll dish out ... Read More