Tag: Process

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Severalnines; Complex, inflexible architectures, redundancy and out-of-date technology, are common problems for companies facing data to cloud migration.  We look to the “clouds,” hoping that we will find there a magic solution to improve operational speed and performance, better workload and scalability, less prone and less complicated architectures. We hope to make our database administrator's life more comfortable. But is it really always a case?  As more enterprises are moving to the cloud, the hybrid model is actually becoming more popular. The hybrid model is seen as a safe model for many businesses.  In fact, it's ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Daniel Oehm. If you’re like me, when running a process through a loop you’ll add in counters and progress indicators. That way you’ll know if it will take 5 minutes or much longer. It’s also good for debugging to know when the code wigged-out. This is typically what’s done. You take a time stamp at the start – start , print out some indicators at each iteration – cat(“iteration”, k, “// reading file”, file, “n”) and print out how long it took at the end – print(Sys.time()-start). The problem is it will print out a new line ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: aliye-ozcan; Nearly every business is under competitive, disruptive, and regulatory pressures. As companies face digital transformation and modernization to meet their customers’  expectations, leveraging data and AI at the speed of business can be the biggest differentiator.However, according to MIT Sloan, 81 percent of organizations don’t understand their data because it’s locked in silos. Much of the data remains inaccessible, untrusted or unanalyzed, providing little-to-no value. Cloud and mobile adoption has accelerated the pace of data creation and increased the number of locations where data can reside. Yet many businesses ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Page Cvelich. Each week in August, the Work/Life Team has invited educational experts to address concerns parents have in the process of choosing a school. For our third blogpost in this series, we have invited our experts to respond to the following questions: What factors should I consider when determining best fit for my child? If I could talk to a few parents who have children attending the school, what questions would be good to ask? From Dr. Sharon Leuenberger, Director of Testing at 3-C Family Services: What factors should be considered really depends on the needs ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Phil Simon. Read the opposing viewpoint on this topic in my previous post. In my last post, I made the case that organizations need to start automating data management. In short, it's not 1985 anymore. It's silly to think that we can continue to manage new, complex data sources and types with manual processes and tools rooted in the nascent days of enterprise computing. Today I'm flip-flopping. I'm going to explain why embracing full automation is equally silly. Before I do, though, it's critical to recognize the perils of AI. Consider a recent piece in The ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Christie Chirinos; What do Apple, Starbucks, Disney, Under Armour, and Bank of America have in common? They all make hundreds of millions of dollars of sales while offering an incredible user experience due to multi-channel marketing.Today, our goal is to take you through how these companies are succeeding with multi-channel marketing.  But that’s not all: We’re also going to highlight the important takeaways from their multi-channel strategy, and give you tips that you can apply to your own eCommerce store and marketing strategy.What Is Multi-Channel Marketing?Marketing channel strategy refers to how products are transferred from retailer to ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon FSx for Lustre provides a high-performance file system optimized for fast processing of workloads such as machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, financial modeling, and electronic design automation (EDA). Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems can be configured as standalone file systems or can be linked to an Amazon S3 bucket. When linked to an S3 bucket, an FSx for Lustre file system transparently presents S3 objects as files and allows you to write results back to S3, making it easy for you to process cloud data sets on S3 using a high-performance file ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; DreamHost is easily one of the best web hosting services we’ve reviewed. It offers a long list of plans, each feeling well-rounded with its price, in addition to excellent speed, superior security and inexpensive pricing. HostGator, on the other hand, has a few problems, namely in the privacy and speed departments.  In this DreamHost vs. HostGator comparison, we’re going to see how they stack up step-by-step, isolating the variables that make them shine and the ones that make them sink. At the end, you’ll know which is the best option for hosting your site. That ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. IMAGINE: A Better World, A Global Nonprofit Conference brought together hundreds of nonprofits from around the world dedicated to tackling the growing challenges our world faces every day. From fighting climate change to finding cures to saving animals, nonprofits are seeking new ways to combine their passion and purpose with technology. Through the two days of keynotes, sessions, and networking opportunities, attendees uncovered opportunities to collaborate to make the world a better place. Read on below for the top ten highlights coming out of the conference: Best Friends Animal Society Goes All-In ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Ben Stockton; Windows has never had a great reputation for cybersecurity. This comes with being the most popular PC operating system. That’s also why antivirus software like Bitdefender exist in the first place. Thankfully, Microsoft hasn’t ignored the threat themselves, adding Windows Defender to every Windows installation. Whether you can trust Windows Defender to keep your PC secure or not is another matter. This is why we’re going to compare it with Bitdefender, our choice as the best antivirus software on the market. Windows Defender made it onto our best free antivirus software shortlist, and it’s seen ... Read More