Tag: scaling

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: jennifer-clemente; Follow @IBMDataIn the airline industry, timing and synchronization are everything when it comes to the customer experience. Mitigating unforeseen circumstances against customer expectations and good old supply and demand are all issues well within the wheelhouse of AI’s predictive capabilities. It’s no wonder that Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Germany’s largest airline, recognized early on that with the right data and AI strategy, it could enhance the customer experience and better empower its employees while achieving operational excellence. In less than two years, the airline has quickly moved from AI ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; You got yourself a Kubernetes cluster and are now testing our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster. Everything is working great and you decided that you want to increase the number of Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) pods from the default 3, to let’s say, 5 pods. It’s just a matter of running the following command: kubectl patch pxc cluster1 --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/pxc/size", "value": 5 }]'kubectl patch pxc cluster1 --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/pxc/size", "value": 5 }]'Good, you run the command without issues and now you will have 5 pxc pods! ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Previously, you could manually scale cluster size or leverage EMR Automatic Scaling by customizing scaling rules based on CloudWatch metrics. However, these approaches require in-depth understanding of application frameworks and workloads patterns; EMR Automatic Scaling supports instance groups only. EMR Managed Scaling applies to both instance groups and instance fleets. You can seamlessly scale Spot Instances, On-Demand Instances, and instances that are part of a Savings Plan all within the same cluster.   Amazon EMR Managed Scaling is available on Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and YARN-based workloads on Amazon EMR version 5.30.1 and above. You can use ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Eric Boyd. As the world adjusts to new ways of working and staying connected, we remain committed to providing Azure AI solutions to help organizations invent with purpose. Building on our vision to empower all developers to use AI to achieve more, today we’re excited to announce expanded capabilities within Azure Cognitive Services, including:. Text Analytics for health preview. Form Recognizer general availability. Custom Commands general availability. New Neural Text to Speech voices. Companies in healthcare, insurance, sustainable farming, and other fields continue to choose Azure AI to build and deploy AI applications to transform ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release Oracle Autonomous Database Now Available in Customer Datacenters Addresses data sovereignty, security, and performance concerns that prevent some enterprise workloads from moving to the public cloudCrédit Agricole, Entel, and Samsung SDS welcome Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer Redwood Shores, Calif.—Jul 8, 2020 Building on the success of Oracle’s Exadata Cloud@Customer service over the last three years, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer. This new offering combines the latest Oracle Database with the fastest Oracle Database platform—Exadata—delivered as a cloud service in customer datacenters. It eliminates database management and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. AWS is happy to announce the release of Amazon EMR Managed Scaling—a new feature that automatically resizes your cluster for best performance at the lowest possible cost. With EMR Managed Scaling you specify the minimum and maximum compute limits for your clusters and Amazon EMR automatically resizes them for best performance and resource utilization. EMR Managed Scaling continuously samples key metrics associated with the workloads running on clusters. EMR Managed Scaling is supported for Apache Spark, Apache Hive and YARN-based workloads on Amazon EMR versions 5.30.1 and above.*Use cases and benefits Before EMR Managed Scaling, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Radford Neal. In this post, fourth in a series (previous posts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), I’ll finally talk about some substantive conclusions of the following paper:Kissler, Tedijanto, Goldstein, Grad, and Lipsitch, Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period, Science, vol. 368, pp. 860-868, 22 May 2020 (released online 14 April 2020).  The paper is also available here, with supplemental materials here.In my previous post, I talked about how the authors estimate the reproduction numbers (R) over time for the four common cold coronavirus, and how these estimates could be improved. In this post, I’ll ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Noora Husseini. By Noora Husseini, Lead Data Scientist at TIBCO SoftwareBy Mariano Luna, Sr. Manager, Cloud and Technology Alliances at TIBCO SoftwareBy Dilip Rajan, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSIn March 2020, TIBCO Software—an integration, analytics, and event-processing software provider—launched an analytics app to track the spread and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in real-time, over local regions worldwide. The goal of this analytics app is to enable organizations to assess the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their business fabric, using sound data science and data management principles, in the context of ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. A query plan is a sequence of steps used to access data in a relational database management system (DBMS). The DBMS query optimizer choses from many alternative ways to execute a given query, with widely varying performance. Because query optimizers are imperfect, database users and administrators sometimes need to manually examine and tune the plans to get better performance. Correlating this performance data can take hours without specialized expertise.  RDS Performance Insights allows all database users to identify the most resource intensive SQL queries and from where they originated on a visual dashboard in seconds. Now, RDS ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Mike Sherman; Are you thinking about ordering a new virtual server and wondering about VPS security? When ordering a server for VPS Hosting, you will likely be presented an option between a managed and an unmanaged server. It is important to know your hosting options when deciding what kind of infrastructure and secure VPS support you will need. Here are the main differences between the two and how a managed VPS security system can help protect your sensitive data. Why Use Managed Server vs. Unmanaged Server for Security? The main reason to use a managed server vs ... Read More