Tag: storage

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Shashi Raina. By Shashi Raina, Partner Solution Architect at AWSBy Veda Shankar, Senior Developer Advocate at OmniSciWe generate quintillions of bytes of data every day, but on the face of it the data is not necessarily useful. To make data useful, it should be processed into information. In this post, we’ll talk about how OmniSci, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Standard Technology Partner, provides a platform to make this process of changing data into information faster, cheaper, and interactive. With the rapid growth of data comes the challenge of getting meaningful information from ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MC Brown; Clickhouse is a relatively new analytics and datawarehouse engine that provides for very quick insertion and analysing of data. Like most analytics platforms it’s built on a column-oriented storage basis and unlike many alternatives is completely open source. It’s also exceedingly fast, even on relatively modest platforms.Clickhouse does have some differences from some other environments, for example, data inserted cannot easily be updated, and it supports a number of different storage and table engine formats that are used to store and index the information. So how do we get into that from our MySQL transactional ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Starting today, Amazon EC2 C5d, M5d, and R5d Instances are available in the Europe (Paris) AWS Region and Amazon EC2 R5d Instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Amazon EC2 C5d, M5d, and R5d all have local NVMe-based SSD block level storage physically connected to the host server. These instances are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage, to temporary storage of data such as batch and log processing, and to high-speed caches and scratch files. C5d instances are ideal for applications such as high performance web servers, ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. By Axel Morgner, Co-Founder and CEO, Structr | December 14, 2018Reading time: 5 minutes The field of graph technology has developed rapidly in recent years. From the beginnings of the Neo4j graph database – released almost nine years ago in version 1.0 – up to current the latest version (and also the developments of other manufacturers, though Neo4j has not lost its leading position in the market since then), the area of graph databases and graph-based systems has established itself as an independent technology sector that’s growing at an above-average rate.Evidence for ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Whatever your industry, data is central to how organizations function. When we discuss data strategy with customers, it’s often in the context of how do they ingest, store, process, analyze, distribute, and ultimately secure data.Amazon EMR is a managed Hadoop framework that you use to process vast amounts of data. One of the reasons that customers choose Amazon EMR is its security features. For example, customers like FINRA in regulated industries such as financial services, and in healthcare, choose Amazon EMR as part of their data strategy. They do so to adhere to strict regulatory ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; It’s tough to navigate the vast market of online backup solutions. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the best online backup solutions to help you choose. That said, if you still can’t make up your mind and you’re weighing CloudBerry Backup vs Acronis True Image, you’re in the right place. We’re going to compare them in this article to see which service is better. Acronis True Image is a standard online backup service, but CloudBerry Backup needs a partner service because it isn’t. Rather, it is an infrastructure-as-a-service solution that doesn’t offer backup space ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: David Schmidt; Apple has long touted the security of the operating system running its products. By praising iOS devices for integrated software and hardware, Apple created a narrative that users believe. As tempting as it is to trust your iPhone’s security out of the box, it’s important to take extra measures to ensure your data is safe. There’s a downside to locking down your iPhone, though. The more actions you take to protect it from security threats, the more cumbersome your experience using it can become. It’s up to you to decide the extent of safeguards you’re ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. MemSQL CEO Nikita Shamgunov was featured recently on the Data Engineering Podcast with host Tobias Macey. Tobias drew out Nikita on MemSQL’s origins, our exciting present, and where we’re going in the future. We share a few highlights here, but we also urge you to listen to the full episode. The podcast covered a wide variety of topics. In this blog post, we’ll highlight Nikita’s comments on MemSQL’s origins; setting up and running the MemSQL database; typical use cases; and the future of MemSQL. How MemSQL Started Nikita grew up and was educated in ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Leo Sadovy. By now you’ve seen the headlines and the hype proclaiming data as the new oil. The well-meaning intent of these proclamations is to cast data in the role of primary economic driver for the 21st century, just as oil was for the 20th century. As analogies go, it’s not too bad, but it doesn't really hit the mark. If we were to stick with the oil/data analogy, data would not be a replacement for oil, but a co-equal partner. Allow me to offer an alternative analogy: Life. In an attempt to assess whether or ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Paul Miller. The edge, and edge computing, figure prominently in a lot of internet of things (IoT) discussions right now. But where — and what — the edge is very quickly gets complicated. Telecom operators understand the edge of their network. Sellers of servers and gateways know what they’d like their customers to fill the edge with. Beneficiaries of IoT accept that data, value, and control often move between the center, the edge, and various intermediate points. But the terminology doesn’t really help any of them speak to one another, because they all imbue these simple — and ... Read More