Tag: Security

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Saumitra Buragohain. What is a Data Science and Engineering Platform Apache Spark is one of our most popular workloads- both on-premises and cloud. As we recently announced HDP 3.0.0  (followed by a hardened HDP 3.0.1), we want to introduce the Data Science and Engineering Platform powered by Apache Spark. As noted in the marketecture above, our Data Science & Engineering Platform is powered by Apache Spark with Apache Zeppelin notebooks to enable Batch, Machine Learning, and Streaming use cases, by personas such as Data Engineers, Data Scientists and Business Analysts. We recently introduced Apache ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. A post by Teresa Carlson, VP of Worldwide Public Sector, Amazon Web ServicesHappy Birthday! It has been 10 years of our customers running Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server on AWS. Our government customers are some of the largest users of Windows. As public sector customers are looking to modernize their infrastructure, they have been turning to AWS. They trust their Windows workloads on AWS because of our experience, reliability, security, and performance. In fact, IDC (a leading IT Analyst) estimates that AWS accounted for approximately 57.7% of total Windows instances in ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Peter. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in conversations around the topic of “Oracle vs. Microsoft”. I’ve heard both sides of the story ranging from “SQL Server for mission critical operations…are you crazy!” to “Oracle costs me my first born child…year after year!”. While these discussions are often entertaining, the line delineating the two database giants is blurring by each subsequent release.In my years consulting for LÛCRUM, I have worked for numerous clients that have had installations of both Oracle and Microsoft running in their environments. With recent statistics estimating that Oracle ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Peter. Prof. Andrew McAfee (see my previous post) in a blog post in Nov 2006 asked his readers to consider this: Imagine two competitors, one of which has the guiding principle “keep security risks and discoverability to a minimum,” the other of which is guided by the rule “make it as easy as possible for people to collaborate and access each others’ expertise.”  Both put in technology infrastructures appropriate for their guiding principles.  Take all IT, legal, and leak-related costs into account.  Which of these two comes out ahead over time? My guess would be the latter. So, what is ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: David Houlding. Healthcare is drowning in data. Every patient brings a record that could span decades, with x-rays, MRIs, and other data that can affect every decision. Providers and payers bring their own collateral to the table. Skills, policies, and certifications are just the start. Complying with regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) present additional burdens on any process. But there is a remedy: AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (machine learning) are powerful tools that can change the way healthcare organizations deal with the tsunami of healthcare data. Use cases ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Maxim Lukiyanov. Today, we are pleased to reveal the preview of HDInsight IO Cache, a new transparent data caching feature of Azure HDInsight that provides customers with up to a 9x performance improvement for Apache Spark jobs. We know from our customers that when it comes to analytics cost efficiency of managed cloud-based Apache Hadoop and Spark services is one of their major attractors. HDInsight IO Cache allows us to improve this key value proposition even further by improving performance without a corresponding increase in costs. Architecture Azure HDInsight is a cloud platform service for ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Christine Alford. Active Directory Certificate Services 2016 PKI: Quickly deploy Active Directory Certificate Services 2016 PKI to your Microsoft Azure tenant Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Build a new PKI hierarchy or set up a subordinate certificate authority to an established PKI hierarchy. Aider-MigrateR: Aider-MigrateR is a specialized virtual machine to assist in the planning and execution of migrations. Azul Zulu on Ubuntu 18.04: Azul Zulu is a Java virtual machine that is compliant with the Java SE specification. Zulu in JDK form is an open-source distribution of the Java Development Kit of the OpenJDK project. HubStor Test Drive: ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Do your closets at home ever get cluttered? Is your garage or storage locker stuffed with yesterday’s projects, previous years’ tax returns, books you own but haven’t read, and other belongings that you don’t use but just can’t bear to give away? Just like cramming that exercise bike you’ve stopping pedaling into your garage, you may have turned to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) or Microsoft Azure Blob storage as places to keep big stores of data your business has collected but that you haven’t completely figured out what to do with.Unlike your garage, however, Amazon S3 and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Daniel Escapa. Last month at our Ignite conference in Orlando, we proudly announced the public preview of Azure Digital Twins, a new platform for comprehensive digital models and spatially aware solutions that can be applied to any physical environment. Today, we take the next step in the journey of simplifying IoT for our customers and are happy to announce that Azure Digital Twins is now officially live. Starting today, customers and partners can create an Azure account and begin using Azure Digital Twins. We encourage you to explore the content available in the Azure Digital ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Betsy Chernoff. Contributed by Sandy Carter, Vice President of Windows on AWS and Enterprise WorkloadsHappy birthday to all of our AWS customers! In particular, I want to call out Autodesk, RightScale (now part of Flexera), and Suunto (Movescount) – just a few of our customers who have been running Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server on AWS for 10 years! Thank you for your business and seeing the value of Windows on AWS! So many customers trust their Windows workloads on AWS because of our experience, reliability, security, and performance. IDC (a leading IT Analyst) estimates that ... Read More