Tag: scaling

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: J.D. Bean. Government, education, nonprofit, healthcare, and other public sector organizations process and store sensitive data including health records, tax data, personally identifiable information (PII), student data, criminal justice information, and financial data. These workloads carry stringent security and compliance requirements to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of this data both in transit and at rest. Best practices for protection of data in transit include enforcing appropriately defined encryption requirements, authenticating network communications, and implementing secure key and certificate management systems. In this post, I demonstrate a solution for deploying a highly available ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Nicholas Burden. By Nicholas Burden, Senior Technical Evangelist at TensorIoT As COVID-19 has swept across the globe, it has radically challenged businesses in every industry. TensorIoT has responded to these events by innovating to provide companies with powerful tools to drive success under extreme circumstances. To help safeguard workplaces from the pandemic, TensorIoT developed SafetyVisor, a suite of machine learning (ML) tools that can operate independently or in tandem with existing business infrastructure to monitor safety gear usage (like masks) and social distancing. SafetyVisor’s computer vision models are designed to work with your ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: George Harot. By George Harot, Product Marketing Director, Documentum – OpenTextBy Alex Dubovik, Global Technology Lead, Business Applications – AWS Large organizations are grappling with increasing volumes and variety of information. Managing the lifecycle of structured data and unstructured content, while simultaneously providing efficient access to it, has never been more challenging. Increased regulations, evolving content types, and new ways of working can make the task seem overwhelming. Information—from official company records like invoices and employment contracts to the ad-hoc, collaborative content used to engage customers and foster product innovation—fuels almost every business ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. We are excited to introduce the new AWS High Performance Computing (HPC) Competency featuring AWS Partners with deep technical expertise and proven customer success. These trusted AWS Partners provide technology offerings in areas such as high performance engineering simulation solvers, HPC workload management, high throughput computing, and foundational HPC technology. To help customers run the most compute-intensive workloads across industry verticals, Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers an integrated suite of services that provide everything needed to quickly and easily build and manage HPC clusters in the cloud. These workloads span the ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . If you asked IT and business executives to name some of the items on their lists of priorities for this year, there's a good chance "add more automation" would be one of them. Automating processes to complete tasks more quickly and accurately and at the same time reduce costs, has taken on even greater significance during the Covid-19 pandemic. Technologies such as robotic process engineering (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and others are gaining traction in many enterprises as they look to achieve their automation goals. An emerging concept that combines these tools to ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Saroj Tripathy; This blog is about table partitioning in NDB Cluster. We will see how this feature has been enhanced from version to version. Also we will see which partitioning user should use under which scenario. Here I will assume that the user has some knowledge on NDB cluster.Data distribution and table partitioning are usually coupled together. In NDB, when we talk about table partitioning, we mean ‘data distribution’ mainly as NDB doesn’t fully support RANGE, HASH or LIST partitioning. Most of the enhancements made to partitioning over the years are about ‘data distribution’ rather than ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Higher Order Functions. [This article was first published on Higher Order Functions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. For a long time, I’ve been curious about something. It is a truth I’ve seen casually dropped in textbooks, package documentation, and tweets: random effects and penalized smoothing splines are the same thing. It sounds so profound and enlightened. What does it mean? How are they the same? What deep ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . “COVID-19 has escalated digital initiatives into digital imperatives,” analyst firm, Gartner, noted in describing how leaders need to rethink how an organisation approaches the years ahead.It’s true that enterprises are having to rapidly grapple with this issue; KPMG has noted that by 2022, 80 per cent of revenue growth will depend on digital offerings and operations. For CIOs, the need to undertake digital transformation is a challenge that they face in the immediate term; not just for “keeping the lights on” and allowing work to continue through the pandemic, but rather to also drive competitive advantage ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Casey Burns. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) convened the National Forum on COVID-19 Vaccine to share and discuss best practices to help advance the goals of the National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness. The forum brought representatives together from across the US government, including tribal, state, local, and territorial leaders, public health, healthcare systems, national and community based non-governmental organizations, education, private industry, unions, and faith-based organizations involved in the response to COVID-19. Amazon Web Services (AWS) participated in the forum as a panelist for “Day 2 ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now allows you to view deleted Auto Scaling groups in the scaling history. Previously if you deleted an Auto Scaling group, you need to either maintain the record of scaling activities for deleted Auto Scaling groups or ask support team to get the record for the same. Now, you can specify one additional parameter in a describe call to get a description of the scaling history for deleted Auto Scaling groups. This makes it easier to keep a record of scaling activities after an application has been shut down. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling ... Read More