Tag: storage

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: karan-sachdeva; The business that gets there first won’t necessarily win digital and AI game. It will be the one that ingrains digital and AI in its business as much as possible. Starting from applying intelligent data science where it matters most and progressively using it in every aspect of the business. In the modern banking environment, consumers are well informed. They expect intuitive, engaging and informative experiences when they bank. Banks need solutions that can help them delight their customers with personalized experiences, empower their workforce to provide differentiated ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Today, Amazon Lightsail announces the addition of managed databases to its easy-to-use cloud platform, allowing you to create a fully configured database in minutes for a low, predictable price. Lightsail databases bundle together a database instance, SSD-backed storage, a data transfer allocation, and management tools, starting at $15/month ... Read More

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: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. At Microsoft Ignite, one of the announcements was for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, which was made available in public preview October 1st, 2018 in 12 different Azure regions.  SQL Database Hyperscale is a new SQL-based and highly scalable service tier for single databases that adapts on-demand to your workload’s needs.  With SQL Database Hyperscale, databases can quickly auto-scale up to 100TB, eliminating the need to pre-provision storage resources, and significantly expanding the potential for app growth without being limited by storage size.  Check out the documentation. Compared to current Azure SQL Database service tiers, Hyperscale provides ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Nandakishor Basavanthappa. A few months ago, we released a significant update to the Azure IoT Reference Architecture, a downloadable resource that aims to accelerate customers building IoT solutions on Azure by providing a proven production ready architecture and technology implementation choices. Today, we are happy to release updated version 2.1 of the Azure IoT Reference Architecture. The document offers an overview of the IoT space, recommended subsystem factoring for scalable IoT solutions, prescriptive technology recommendations per subsystem, and detailed sections that explore use cases and technology alternatives. This latest version of the guide includes four ... 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: Cloud Data Integration Software | Matillion. Author: Ed Thompson, CTO; The latest release of Matillion ETL for Amazon Redshift version 1.35, includes a whole host of enhancements, new features and new components to make Matillion better than ever before!What’s new in Matillion ETL for Amazon Redshift version 1.35?You can also find the full release notes and upgrade instructions on our Amazon Redshift Support Center.New Data Connector ComponentsNew/Updated ComponentsNew “Data Transfer” Component that boasts all the functionality of the existing S3 Get, S3 Put, and Cloud Storage Put components, plus additional source and target destinations (Azure Blob Storage).‘Extract To New Job’ function available by ... Read More

Feed: Cloud Data Integration Software | Matillion. Author: Ed Thompson, CTO; The latest release of Matillion ETL for BigQuery version 1.35, includes a whole host of enhancements, new features and new components to make Matillion better than ever before!What’s new in Matillion ETL for BigQuery version 1.35?You can also find the full release notes and upgrade instructions on our BigQuery Support Center.New Data Connector ComponentsNew/Updated Components “Data Transfer” Component that boasts all the functionality of the existing S3 Get, S3 Put, and Cloud Storage Put components, plus additional source and target destinations (Azure Blob Storage).New ‘Extract To New Job’ function available by right-clicking a selection of ... Read More

Feed: Cloud Data Integration Software | Matillion. Author: Ed Thompson, CTO; The latest release of Matillion ETL for Snowflake version 1.35, includes a whole host of enhancements, new features and new components to make Matillion ETL better than ever before!What’s new in Matillion ETL for Snowflake version 1.35?You can also find the full release notes and upgrade instructions on our Snowflake Support Center.New Data Connector ComponentNew/Updated Components and FeaturesNew “Data Transfer” Component that boasts all the functionality of the existing S3 Get, S3 Put, and Cloud Storage Put components, plus additional source and target destinations (Azure Blob Storage).Support for running on Azure platformSupport for Snowflake’s AUTOINCREMENT option in the ... 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