Tag: storage

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. Greg Wilson is a data scientist and professional educator at RStudio. As a newcomer to R who prefers to read paper rather than pixels, I’ve been working my way through a more-or-less random selection of relevant books over the past few months. Some have discussed topics that I’m already familiar with in the context of R, while others have introduced me to entirely new subjects. This post describes four of them in brief; I hope to follow up with a second post in a few months as I work through the backlog on my desk ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Bojana Dobran, Senior Marketing Specialist at phoenixNAPThe growing need for business agility has redefined IT at the organizational and infrastructure levels. Building an agile IT architecture that can quickly adapt to business needs and support dynamic teams has become a critical focus in most modern organizations. An agile infrastructure is fast, robust, and easily scalable. Its creation usually involves collaboration between NetOps, DevOps, and SecOps teams—all of whom need to ensure the infrastructure is capable of handling bandwidth-heavy workloads, delivering uninterrupted connectivity, and transferring data quickly and safely. As a ... Read More

Feed: Blog – OrientDB. Author: Leann. The power of graph database solutions means that creating data and finding relationships between data sets is not constrained by defined data classifications, formats, storage locations or original data structure.By storing and monitoring relationship data, graph solutions enable organizations to act on changes to their data model without the limitations of a set database structure, known as schemas. A database that isn’t limited to one schema type also simplifies data modeling and querying of connected data. Although graph solutions support schema-less use, you might still want to use a schema to enforce some structure ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Companies continue to move business critical workloads and their most sensitive data to the cloud, yet security challenges remain, according to the second annual Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report 2019 released today. The report found that 72 percent of respondents feel the public cloud is more secure than what they can deliver in their own data center and are moving data to the cloud, but visibility gaps remain that can make it hard for businesses to understand where and how their critical data is handled in the cloud. The survey also found a projected ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. First off – not trying to kindle any flame wars here, just trying to broaden my (your) horizons a bit, gather some ideas (maybe I’m missing out on something cool, it’s the most used Open Source RDBMS after all) and to somewhat compare the two despite being a difficult thing to do correctly / objectively. Also I’m leaving aside here performance comparisons and looking at just the available features, general querying experience and documentation clarity as this is I guess most important for beginners. So just a list of points I made for myself, grouped in no ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Severalnines; Migrating from Oracle to MySQL/Percona Server is not a trivial task. Although it is getting easier, especially with the arrival of MySQL 8.0 and Percona announced Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 GA. Aside from planning for your migration from Oracle to Percona Server, you must ensure that you understand the purpose and functionality for why it has to be Percona Server. This blog will focus on Migrating from Oracle to Percona Server as its specific target database of choice. There's a page in the Oracle website about SQL Developer Supplementary Information for MySQL Migrations which ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. In many organisations, IT security and data governance processes can be complex since data is stored across multiple environments and applications. Data privacy, including data classification, is now a core component of security requirements. Organisations need an easier and more pragmatic approach in administering their data assets to mitigate operational risk.Mandatory data privacy regulations, including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and Information Security Manual (ISM) data stores were administered by IT security based on their environment, application, group of users, and/or use cases. Now, ... Read More

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 was made generally available on February 7th.  In short, ADLS Gen2 is the best of the previous version of ADLS (now called ADLS Gen1) and Azure Blob Storage.  ADLS Gen2 is built on Blob storage and because of that it is a “ring 0” service and is available in all regions.  To create an ADLS Gen2 account, see Quickstart: Create an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 storage account.  Note that creating Blob storage or ADLS Gen2 both follow the same process, which is to create a storage account.  The ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jake Fellows; Organizations of all types and sizes use VMware virtualization, and quality managed services make VMware private cloud a cost-effective upgrade for many small and medium-sized businesses. VMware private cloud is a premium solution with particular benefits for a certain range of workloads. Popular uses include backups, disaster mitigation, test and development environments, devops, and handling sensitive or regulated data.Organizations considering deploying a private cloud or hybrid cloud solution should take their time and plan their environment carefully, as getting maximum value from any kind of architecture requires getting the details right. A managed service ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Bahram Banisadr. We have been incredibly excited to be a part of the rise of event-driven programming as a core building block for cloud application architecture. By making the following features generally available, we want to enable you to build more sophisticated, performant, and stable event-driven applications in Azure. We are proud to announce the general availability of the following set of features, previously in preview: Dead lettering Retry policies Storage Queues as a destination Hybrid Connections as a destination Manual Validation Handshake To take advantage of the GA status of the features, make sure ... Read More