Tag: scaling

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's note: Arik Hesseldahl is a guest blogger covering PuppetConf.If you haven’t yet automated a fair portion of your company’s IT infrastructure, there are over 1,200 people here in San Francisco that would like to have a word with you.First among them is probably Puppet CEO Sanjay Mirchandani, and whose keynote address opened the two-day PuppetConf 2017 here today.And even if you’ve bought in to the benefits that automation can bring, chances are it’s not being used to anywhere near its full potential, Mirchandani said. Unless they’re companies born in the cloud, who ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. One hundred fifty-two packages made it to CRAN in December. Here are my “Top 40” picks in ten categories: Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Data climate v0.3.0: Provides access to meteorological and hydrological data from OGIMET, University of Wyoming – atmospheric vertical profiling data, ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Nate Coppinger. This is part one of a three-part blog series on Log Management for Google Stackdriver with BindPlane Proper Log Management Whether you’re a multi-billion-dollar tech firm or a small startup, sorting your data in a usable and logical manner can prove to be a major challenge. No matter the size of your company, you are going to have individuals within your organization that only need access to specific data and information. Providing them with anything extra ends up slowing down workflows and creates digital clutter. When you first begin ingesting data with Google Stackdriver ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Scott Resch. A digitally transformed organization is one that is “alive and awake to everything that is going on around it” and knows how to leverage connections to take advantage of its place within a complex ecosystem.  That is one of the key points made in the inaugural episode of Domo Connects, a podcast that explores matters related to digital transformation and organizational optimization through compelling conversations with some of the brightest minds in business. In the episode, I speak with Peter Sole, Helen Mumford-Sole and Julie Rufo of digital transformation insight provider Mumford Sole Partners ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Katharine Marais; Novel fintech like cryptocurrency and blockchain have disrupted and fundamentally reimagined such previously eminent and staid realities such as the government monopoly on currency-creation. As fintech has risen to prominence, an unlikely mascot has emerged to represent the convenience enabled by novel financial technologies; mobile banking ads have portrayed ballerinas paying for goods while performing- logging into Visa or Chase apps from the wings, or hilariously, paying for goods while doing a “grand jete between two grand pianos,” in one tongue-in-cheek commercial by Chase. They portray a shared sentiment: that we are ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Ashley Lozito; We are so excited to announce that Matillion has achieved the Amazon Redshift Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program. This designation recognizes that Matillion ETL, Matillion’s flagship product, has demonstrated successful integration with Amazon Redshift. Matillion ETL for Redshift is also the top-rated product in AWS Marketplace. Amazon has many partners but only some products are truly integrated with their solutions. Achieving the Amazon Redshift Ready designation differentiates Matillion as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member with a product integrating with Amazon Redshift and is generally available and fully ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Michael Wasielewski. Customers with stringent regulatory or risk-averse considerations may look to Zero Trust architectures to refactor legacy applications or deploy new ones. This blog will help you evaluate your application architecture against Zero Trust principles and use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build secure and scalable architectures.What is Zero Trust? Zero Trust security is a model where application components or microservices are considered discrete from each other and no component or microservice trusts any other. This manifests as a security posture designed to consider input from any source as potentially malicious ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; One of my favorite parts of PuppetConf is hearing what people are doing with Puppet technology. It’s always a learning experience. You’ll be learning in the hallway, at the events, and of course during the sessions. I love hearing about people pushing Puppet technology in ways I hadn’t considered, or combining it with other tools to make solutions to a larger set of problems. This year, we have several talks lined up to expand your knowledge of Puppet and take you deeper into the capabilities and extension points of our tech. Allow me ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; With Puppetconf 2017 coming to San Francisco in less than a month we thought it might be interesting to take a look at some of the talks we have lined up. In this post we’re focusing on the Moving to the Cloud and Containers track.Moving to the cloudWe have several talks focused on using Puppet with public and private cloud environments.R Tyler Croy from CloudBees will be explaining all about Shipping the Jenkins Project to Azure with Puppet and Kubernetes. This session will tell a fascinating story about embracing modern tooling and migrating ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Fahad Zaidi. Having spent the better part of the last decade helping organisations in the U.S. and the U.K. use data to drive profit, efficiency, and performance improvements, I thought it would be helpful to jot down best practices for organizations that are looking to get the most value out of their enterprise-level financial and operational data sets. Every organisation entering the roaring 20s knows that they must use their data as a strategic differentiator to gain a competitive advantage and this article lists five things all companies must do to ... Read More