Tag: streaming

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: bharath-chari; Let’s say you’re the Chief Technology Officer of a bank or retailer struggling to infuse AI that aims to improve customer experiences. You likely face three main challenges:Data sprawl: Your customer data is currently on multiple clouds, including on-premises and a cloud data lake storage repository. But the data often exists in different formats in Db2, Oracle and other databases—and those databases are being used by transactional systems in different departments. Data latency across clouds and systems can be a serious concern in a multicloud environment, specifically when ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AppStream 2.0 is a fully managed, secure application streaming service that allows you to stream desktop applications to users without rewriting applications. AppStream 2.0 provides users with instant-on access to the applications they need with a responsive, fluid user experience on the device of their choice.  AppStream 2.0 offers pay-as-you-go pricing. See Amazon AppStream 2.0 Pricing for more information. If you are new to AppStream 2.0, you can try already-installed applications by visiting the AppStream 2.0 website. Or, follow our Getting Started Guide to configure your own applications for streaming ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. With improvements to “Single-Pass HQ” and “Multi-Pass HQ” using AVC (Advanced Video Coding), better video quality (VQ) can be achieved compared to previous outputs without increasing the peak bitrate, or the same VQ can be achieved with a lower peak bitrate. Greater compression efficiency reduces storage and delivery costs, and improved VQ increases viewer satisfaction. Accelerated Transcoding has two new features. First is the ability to frame capture JPEG files for jobs with Accelerated Transcoding enabled, generating thumbnails for video outputs that can be used for metadata or other purposes with the benefit of faster turnaround times ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. You can capture, transform, and load streaming data into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and Splunk, enabling near real-time analytics with existing business intelligence tools you are already using today.  With Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, you don't need to write applications or manage resources. You configure your data producers to send data to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, and it automatically delivers the data to the destination that you specified. You can also configure Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL 12 can be considered revolutionary considering the performance boost we observe with partitioning enhancements, planner improvements, several SQL features, Indexing improvements, etc. You may see some of such features discussed in future blog posts. But, let me start this blog with something interesting. You might have already seen some news that there is no recovery.conf file in standby anymore and that the replication setup (streaming replication) has slightly changed in PostgreSQL 12. We have earlier blogged about the steps involved in setting up a simple Streaming Replication until PostgreSQL 11 and also about using replication slots ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksander Hougen; Web browsers are perhaps the most crucial piece of software in our everyday lives, with the exception of the operating system itself. Pretty much anyone with a computer uses a browser to access the worldwide web on a daily basis, so choosing one to use can be a complicated decision. In this article, we’ll tell you which are the best web browsers. Vivaldi is the clear winner of this comparison. Despite being packed with features, it has excellent performance. The customization options are almost endless, and since it’s based on Chromium, the Vivaldi browser can ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Melanie Purkis; Almost all businesses rely on online services for critical business processes, if not directly for revenue.Downtime and performance disruptions represent lost productivity and sales, along with mitigation, reputation, and other costs.The real cost of tech glitches and outdated technology could mean millions.For this reason, a large and growing number of businesses make a modest investment in upgrading their infrastructure to an architecture based on server clusters.What is a Server Cluster?A server cluster is a unified group of servers, distributed and managed under a single IP address, which serves as a single entity to ensure ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. You can capture, transform, and load streaming data into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and Splunk, enabling near real-time analytics with existing business intelligence tools you are already using today.  With Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, you don't need to write applications or manage resources. You configure your data producers to send data to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, and it automatically delivers the data to the destination that you specified. You can also configure Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksander Hougen; Set in the 1980s, The Americans follows a seemingly traditional nuclear family living in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. However, all is not as it seems. That’s because the parents in the family are actually secret Soviet spies in deep cover. So deep, in fact, that their two children have no idea of their real identity. In this article, we’ll show you how to watch The Americans online so you can find out if it all catches up to them. Watching the show, you’re plunged into a world of intrigue, spycraft and high-stakes tension. The ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Vorhies. Summary:  Here’ a proposal for real ‘zero touch’, ‘set-em-and-forget-em’ machine learning from the researchers at Amazon.  If you have an environment as fast changing as e-retail and a huge number of models matching buyers and products you could achieve real cost savings and revenue increases by making the refresh cycle faster and more accurate with automation.  This capability likely will be coming soon to your favorite AML platform. Is there a future in which we can really ‘set-em-and-forget-em’ machine learning?  So far Automated Machine Learning (AML) is delivering on ... Read More