Tag: streaming

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Saša Vujnović. Accessing the web via VPN is as popular as ever.  This trend gives users access to geo-blocked websites and more content at reduced rates. Apart from this, users can access services without the worry that their sessions will be tracked.  However, like every other service, VPNs have their downsides, and it’s important to do your research before deciding which one to subscribe to. In this guide, we’ll take a look at the many pros and cons of VPNs, and we’ll give some tips on how to pick the best VPN for your ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Shadow is one of the largest names in cloud gaming, and for good reason. Outfitted with a full Windows 10 desktop and support for every game that runs on Microsoft’s OS, it’s the closest thing we’ve found to local gaming in the cloud.  Microsoft’s yet-to-be-released cloud gaming service, Project xCloud, is competent in its own right, though it struggles when it comes to game support and performance. In this Shadow vs Project xCloud matchup, we’re going to compare the two in features, pricing, ease of use, coverage, game support, platform support and performance to see ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has resources and tools to make remote work and e-learning as easy as possible customers during this unprecedented time.AWS solutions include remote desktops and applications, tools for communication and collaboration, and contact center solutions. Employees, contact center agents, and students can work remotely and learn more easily with Amazon Connect, Amazon WorkSpaces, and Amazon AppStream 2.0, among others. For customers, AWS contact center solutions and remote desktop and application services can be deployed quickly and scale globally with the help of AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners. In ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Apache Kafka enables you to perform real time analytics on your data to get insights faster than you would normally see with other data stores. With DMS adding support for Apache Kafka as a target, you don’t need a self-managed streaming data connector and your software development teams can focus more on innovation. For example, you can use DMS to aggregate ongoing change logs and metrics from applications that use multiple data stores such as Oracle, SQL Server, Aurora, MongoDB and many more to produce centralized operational data feeds and monitor everything in one place ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Vorhies. Summary:  An interesting documentary about the earliest days of AI/ML and my alternate take on how we should really be describing the development of our profession to the newly initiated. What could be more natural in these days of the Corona Virus than binge watching great videos.  I was intrigued by a recent offer from Futurology who has sponsored “The History of Artificial Intelligence” on YouTube for free viewing.  The two-and-a-half-hour video is described as "the culmination of documentaries that cover the history and origins of computing-based artificial intelligence." ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Google Stadia and Shadow are two of the biggest names in cloud gaming. Both offer excellent remote gaming experiences, earning spots in our best cloud gaming guide. In this Google Stadia vs Shadow comparison, however, only one can emerge victorious.  We’re going to compare the services in game support, device support, coverage, performance, pricing, ease of use and features to see which is the better option for your money. Google Stadia and Shadow take very different approaches to cloud gaming, and we’ll be taking into account all of those differences throughout this guide.  Still, you ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Peter Skomoroch and Mike Loukides. Edit note: The increasing push to adopt AI into product, across many industries, puts the intersection of AI and product management into sharp focus. Challenges abound: non-deterministic outcomes, uncertainty (schedule, accuracy, relevance), opacity (models can be difficult to understand and explain), fairness issues, and other factors make AI a difficult sell to decision-makers and upper management. Here, Pete Skomoroch and Mike Loukides layout, in detail and with helpful supporting examples, what makes AI different, how to address those differences, and how product managers can better align their efforts in pragmatic support of ... Read More

Feed: Blog – Hazelcast. Author: Vladimir Schreiner. Tech conferences and meetups have been canceled or postponed across the world. To make the situation a little bit more pleasing for everybody who misses them, Hazelcast has started a series of virtual tech meetups. Please join us on Thursdays, starting April 2nd. Always at 3:30pm CET/ 7:30am PDT / 10:30am EDT / 2:30pm GMT. The list of topics: Streaming in the world of legacy applications (Vladimir Schreiner) Date: Thursday, April 2, 2020 Join: https://hazelcast.com/resources/tech-talk-streaming-in-the-world-of-legacy-applications/ A practical introduction to CDC (Change Data Capture). Architecture, trade-offs, tooling, and demos. There are common themes when ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. CloudWatch Metrics and object groups enable customers to easily create an operational dashboard for channels, and attach alarms specific to a channel. This provides a simple monitoring solution with just a few clicks. For information on how to use Media Store CloudWatch metrics support, see the documentation pages here. For deeper monitoring, MediaStore access logs provides the ability to dive into individual requests. AWS Elemental MediaStore is a video origination and storage service that offers the high performance, predictable low latency, and immediate consistency required for live streaming media combined with the security and durability AWS offers ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; With the recent releases and updates to multiple cloud gaming platforms, two of the top dogs in the space are Google Stadia and Nvidia GeForce Now. The former offers a console-esque take on cloud gaming, while the latter is a basically a gaming PC in the cloud. We’ll determine which is the better option in this Google Stadia vs GeForce Now comparison.  If you’re looking to play games in the cloud, both are competent services, though there are a plenty of differences between the two. We’re going to compare them in game support, platform support, ... Read More