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Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: holly-vatter; Data scientists are one of the most valuable teams a company can have. But some businesses overlook how important it is to equip their data scientists with the tools that can help them unlock value from data.In particular, it is essential that companies remain adaptive and agile when taking in vast amounts of unstructured data. To get the most value from their data and their data scientists, businesses need a capable, easy-to-use data warehouse that offers built-in data science and parallel processing. These demands point to a data ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. PREVIOUS POST There is a wide variety of indexes available in PostgreSQL. While most are common in almost all databases, there are some types of indexes that are more specific to PostgreSQL. For example, GIN indexes are helpful to speed up the search for element values within documents. GIN and GiST indexes could both be used for making full-text searches faster, whereas BRIN indexes are more useful when dealing with large tables, as it only stores the summary information of a page. We will look at these indexes in more detail in future blog posts. For now, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The AWS Amplify Console provides a Git-based workflow for deploying and hosting fullstack serverless web applications. A fullstack serverless app consists of a frontend built with single page application frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, or Gatsby and an optional backend built with cloud resources such as GraphQL or REST APIs and file and data storage.  To learn how to provision an Amplify Console CloudFormation template check out our launch blog.  ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; by Jessica Cowle Engineers know that security is important, yet nearly half (48%) don’t have enough time to spend on security, according to a new report. This is not good news for security postures. This data reveals that organizations are increasingly at risk of a security incident — due to lack of time, not education or expertise. Report Highlights Need for Automated Security Organizations with mature DevOps practices are more likely to automate security, which ultimately improves the organization’s security posture. Mature DevOps teams are 350% more likely to integrate automated security throughout the deployment ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; by Jessica Cowle What is multi-cloud? Multi-cloud is the use of two or more cloud computing services, including any combination of public, private, and hybrid.  The end result is the capacity to orchestrate resources across multiple private or public cloud platforms that contain multiple cloud vendors, accounts, availability zones, or regions or premises. Why use multiple clouds? The three most important benefits of utilizing multiple clouds are: High availability – The multi-cloud provides protection for an organization’s data storage against threats. If a cloud is unavailable, other clouds remain online to run applications. Flexibility – ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; by Jenelle Kemp, Technical Product Manager, Logicworks Everyone wants to keep their information safe. How can you make certain that the files you or your company have uploaded to the cloud are protected? The need for encryption has become foundational as companies move from private data centers to the cloud. It is a requirement for most compliance standards and may provide legal cover if there is a breach in security. However, many organizations run into trouble when their cloud storage contains a confusing mix of unencrypted and encrypted files – and no idea how they ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. You probably already know that leading analyst firms have been quoting data lake failure rates of 85% for some time now. You may not be aware that one of those same leading analyst firms are now also forecasting that, by 2020, 30% of data lakes will be built on standard relational DBMS (database management system) technology “at equal or lower cost than Hadoop” because – and I quote - “application performance is superior” and “most data going into data lakes is relational.” Put those two things together and you start to understand why MapR has recently gone to the ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: Nagapriya Tiruthani. Announcing the immediate availability of Db2 Big SQL on Cloudera platform.  Extending the support on Hadoop platforms, Db2 Big SQL will now add support to Cloudera Distributed Hadoop (CDH) v5.x platform along with Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) v2.6 & v3.1 Db2 Big SQL is an advanced SQL engine optimized for advanced analytics in a Big Data environment. IBM infuses the power of industry leading Db2 in open source technologies for machine learning, interactive and batch analytics use cases. With Big Data, there is overwhelming amount of data but unless you plan and execute the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Arpan Shah. Customers such as Allscripts, Chevron, J.B. Hunt, and thousands of others are migrating their important workloads to Azure where they find unmatched security. While understanding cloud security is initially a concern to many, after digging in, customers often tell us the security posture they can set up within Azure is easier to implement and far more comprehensive than what they can provide for in other environments. Azure delivers multiple layers of security, from the secure foundation in our physical datacenters, to our operational practices, to engineering processes that follow industry standard Mitre guidelines ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: bluemedora_editor. So, you’re considering migrating from on-prem to the cloud? You’ve probably heard about people’s success in doing so and are now deciding that it might be time for you to join them. Good news—no matter what problem you’re facing, Google has built a world-class platform that you can be successful on. This post helps to identify what possible solutions Google Cloud has for you, all while trying to lay out a general map of what to look for in migrating to the cloud. What is Google Cloud Platform (GCP)? You’re probably here because you’ve heard ... Read More