Tag: Security

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Vijay Tella; There’s been a big movement to cloud and the adoption of SaaS in recent years, and in this context, there is a major shift happening from Information Technology (IT) to Business Technology (BT). BT differs from IT in the scale of apps, speed, agility, and being business impact driven. Companies successfully making this shift thrive and become category leaders, and the ones that do not, fade away. We have written about these challenges and the new approach to automation required to enable such a shift via an Enterprise Automation Platform.  We created ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Ben Stockton; Avast is among the best free antivirus software on the market, while Webroot uses different methods to protect your devices, compared to its competitors. To decide which is best, we’re pitting Webroot and Avast against each other in a head-to-head comparison. Although the services cover different markets — with Avast appealing to the masses and Webroot targeting a niche audience — they’re more similar than they are different. That said, some areas, such as protection, are more important than others, pushing one of the services ahead.  This Webroot vs. Avast comparison can’t cover everything, though, ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Andrew Hartnett; First of all, what is DevOps? DevOps is short for Developer Operations and it is a newer approach that combines both development and operational tasks to automate and speed up software development practices and reduce release cycles for fast-growing companies. DevOps is built on the concept of teamwork and aims to unite teams that were traditionally kept separate and siloed, and reduces the development lifecycle for faster scalability. Once companies have decided which their business needs and objectives are, they need to start small and work towards adopting the DevOps model across the entire ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Hong Ooi. Some major updates to AzureR packages this week! As well as last week's AzureRMR update, there are changes to AzureStor, AzureVM, AzureGraph and AzureContainers. All of these are live on CRAN. AzureStor 3.0.0 There are substantial enhancements to multiple-file transfers (up and down). You can supply a vector of pathnames to storage_upload/download as the source and destination arguments. Alternatively if you specify a wildcard source, there is now the ability to recurse through subdirectories; the directory structure in the source will be reproduced at the destination. There are revamped methods for getting storage properties and ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Roger Magoulas and Chris Guzikowski. Attend the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York, February 23-26, 2020 to learn the latest serverless methods and tools. For the inaugural O’Reilly survey on serverless architecture adoption, we were pleasantly surprised at the high level of response: more than 1,500 respondents from a wide range of locations, companies, and industries participated. The high response rate tells us that serverless is garnering significant mindshare in the community.1 Key findings from the survey include: Learn faster. Dig deeper. See farther. 40% of respondents work at organizations that have adopted serverless architecture in ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. I just got back from a press tour in New York, where the most common question I heard was: What's Oracle's competitive advantage in the cloud? I believe it's the completeness of our offering. Here's why. The three main components of the cloud are the application, platform, and infrastructure layers. But most enterprises don't think about the cloud in terms of these silos. They take a single, holistic view of their problems and how to solve them. Because we play in all layers of the cloud—and are continually adding integrations between the layers—we are in ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Identity theft isn’t a new concept, but it’s prominent now more than ever. With so much information shared on social media — not to mention the online shopping revolution — more personal information is stored in the cloud than ever before. Although the internet has brought new risks to identity theft, it has also brought new ways to protect against it.  In this guide to the best identity theft protection, we’re going to highlight the services that keep you safe from scams, fraud and any other criminal unpleasantness. Along the way, we’ll also talk about ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Many of you have probably read the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyoaski and Sharon Lechter. It advocates the importance of financial literacy and building wealth by investing in assets. We can apply the same concept to data science and ask the question, “What is a rich data science model and what is a poor data science model?” My answer would be that a rich model is one which makes money for your company and a poor model is one which does not make money for your company So how do we make a rich data science ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: ajit jaokar. Artificial Intelligence – Cloud and Edge implementations takes an engineering-led approach for the deployment of AI to Edge devices within the framework of the cloud. We often use the word ‘engineering’ in casual conversation. However, in this context, we attach a specific meaning to Engineering. Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The American Engineers' Council for Professional Development defines engineering as: (specific emphasis of interest highlighted) The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Lake Formation is a service that makes it easy to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secured repository that stores all your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis. A data lake enables you to break down data silos and combine different types of analytics to gain insights and guide better business decisions. Creating a data lake with Lake Formation is as simple as defining where your data resides and what data access and security policies you want to apply. Lake Formation then ... Read More