Tag: storage

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Don Philip Faithful. A theme in my blogs is how the "structure" of data - rather than just the "content" - affects what that data can say and is capable of doing. In particular, I suggest that certain structures tend to reinforce certain contents; this means that a structural imposition can have an effect similar to a contextual imposition. Structure is an interesting conversation because, at first glance, arguably data has none. Structure is something that is attributed to physical things. But data normally has no physical existence - at least ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Feed. Author: itsing. Business intelligence (BI), which is one of the oldest concepts in data processing, is undergoing a radical reinvention.The concept has already evolved considerably since it first gained popularity in the early 1990s (and particularly since its first mention in the Cyclopædia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes in 1865!). In fact, the quest to mine transactional data for business insight has gone on since the earliest days of computing. Decision-support systems were deployed on mainframes in the 1960s. So-called “executive information systems” enjoyed a brief period of popularity in the 1980s, when IBM also coined ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL. Author: MySQL Performance Blog. Jon Tobin  | October 19, 2016 |  Posted In: Docker, Hardware and Storage, MySQL PREVIOUS POST Containers like Docker and Rocket are getting more popular every day. In my conversations with customers, they consistently ask what containers are and how they can use them in their environment. If you’re as curious as most people, read on. . . How did this happen? From what I understand, containers grew out of Google’s (and others’) need for massive horizontal scale. Now, this is hardly a unique problem. At the time there were several different solutions out there that could help ... Read More

Feed: SQL Server Customer Advisory Team. Author: Dimitri Furman. Reviewed by: Steven Green, Peng Song, Xiaochen Wu, Kun Cheng, Sanjay Mishra Introduction Database migration from SQL Server to Azure SQL Database is a process that many organizations must implement as they move to Azure public cloud. This article is a guide that describes one specific implementation path for the migration process, that has been commonly used by Microsoft customers. To aid others in the same task, in this article we present lessons learned, recommendations, examples, caveats, potential issues, solutions, and workarounds. A sample PowerShell script that automates some migration steps ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL. Author: MariaDB. The following is a guest blog post from Sven Franck, marketing manager at Nexedi, one of the largest OSS publishers in Europe with most solutions based on prior research projects. Headquarters are located in Lille, France with Nexedi offices serving clients around the world in Germany, Japan and China.In this blog post, we’ll show why we chose MariaDB as a core component of the NEO system architecture. NEO is our distributed, redundant and transactional storage system, designed to be an alternative to ZEO and FileStorage. The volume of data we’re seeing is growing across the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Aaron Friedman is a Healthcare and Life Sciences Solution Architect with Amazon Web Services The healthcare and life sciences landscape is being transformed rapidly by big data. By intersecting petabytes of genomic data with clinical information, AWS customers and partners are already changing healthcare as we know it. One of the most important things in any type of data analysis is to represent data in a cost-optimized and performance-efficient manner. Before we can derive insights from the genomes of thousands of individuals, genomic data must first be transformed into a queryable format. This ... Read More

Feed: Databasejournal.com - Feature Database Articles. Author: . To err is human, or so the saying goes.  Unfortunately, in the world of IT, innocuous mistakes made early on can lead to really daunting problems down the road. While you can never eliminate human error or bad decisions, there are steps that you can take to minimize the likelihood of finding yourself in a pickle due to a hasty decision arrived at in the spur of the moment or a mistake made early on in design.  In today’s article, we’ll go over a few of the most common DBA mistakes to ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. Cyberattacks happen. How can you recover quickly? If you are in IT management, everywhere you turn, you see warnings of malicious forces working diligently with the one aim of compromising your security and eating your data for lunch. It’s not a question of if anymore but rather of when. Many times the cyber security tools will not prevent the break-in, but only alert you of the compromise.Over the past year, the number of ransomware attacks has grown dramatically and it is safe to say that this is the highest priority item on CIO lists and is ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. There is a tug-of-war of sorts going on in organizations today. On one hand, there is pressure on IT staff to maintain systems’ uptime and availability along with a growing focus on data security, while dealing with the multitude of maintenance-level tasks, such as applying upgrades, fixes, and patches. But on the other hand, there is a growing requirement for IT to support the business as it seeks to use data in new ways for strategic benefit. What’s needed now are more efficient approaches to data management so that greater time, budget, and ... Read More

Cloud uses multi-tenancy to share IT resources, software and services in a cost efficient and secure way. Ever wondered what it takes to achieve multi-tenancy in a hybrid cloud? This intrigued me until I was involved in designing multi-tenant cloud solutions. Multi-tenancy is not new. We have been using it in various forms, one common example is public transit. From an IT perspective, multi-tenancy has two aspects: Internal: A company treats its departments as different tenants. This demands a logical isolation of applications and infrastructure while sharing the physical infrastructure. External: A service provider’s environment in which each tenant is ... Read More