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Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now integrated with AWS CloudFormation and HashiCorp Terraform which allows customers to describe and provision Amazon MSK resources using code. These services make it easy to provision and configure Amazon MSK clusters in a repeatable, automated, and secure manner.  ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Digital transformation examples can be found almost anywhere, in almost any industry. Its past successes – and future potential – are well documented, chronicled in the billion-dollar valuations of the frontrunners in the practice.Amazon began as a disruptor to brick-and-mortar bookstores, eventually becoming one of the most obvious digital transformation examples as it went on to revolutionize online shopping. Netflix’s origins were similar – annihilating its former rival Blockbuster and the entire DVD rental market to become a dominant streaming platform and media publisher. Disruption is the common theme. Netflix ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; If you want to watch Dutch television from outside the EU, you’ll find that your usual websites, such as NPO Start and Uitzending Gemist, aren’t accessible. In this article, we’ll show you how to circumvent these geoblocks — and save yourself some annoyance — by getting a Dutch IP address. It’s not just entertainment websites that are blocked, either. Government websites can be reached from inside the EU, but if you’re outside it, get ready to answer a dozen security questions that may culminate in a mailed letter that’ll, unhelpfully, be sent to your home ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; The Netherlands is a flat land, much of it below sea level, and the home of tulips, wooden shoes and semi-legal marijuana. It’s not all good, though. Besides the pollen and poor weather, the Dutch have to contend with being the most wire-tapped nation in Europe, which is why we’ve put together this list of the best VPNs for the Netherlands. Our top pick is ExpressVPN, thanks to its many Dutch servers, fantastic speeds and large worldwide network, but none of our other four contenders are slouches by any means. After all, if the government ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Jaishree Subramania. If you want to solve a business problem using a computer, you have to connect to it. The furthest point at which you can connect the “edge” has always been a major frontier of computing. In the 1950s, the edge was where you were close enough to feed punch cards into a computer. As computers got smaller and cheaper, networking expanded access, and the edge spread beyond centralized computing hubs. Today, mobile connectivity and the cloud have pushed the edge further. Consumers and businesses have anytime access to virtually unlimited computing power. We ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Vikram Singh. It is easy to ingest device data directly from connected IoT devices as they are integrated with AWS IoT Core. However, AWS IoT Analytics also provides a public BatchPutMessage API action to allow you to inject data from other data resources.In this post, I show how to inject data into AWS IoT Analytics from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams by using an AWS Lambda function. AWS Services Used This solution uses the following AWS services: Amazon Kinesis Data Streams—Enables you to build custom applications that process or analyze streaming ... Read More

Feed: Mr. Fox SQL. For those not aware there’s some excellent local SQL events coming up here in Melbourne and Sydney… SQL Saturday 769 (Sat 30 Jun 2018) Melbourne.  SQL Saturday 771 (Sat 07 Jul 2017) Sydney.  For those looking for some great free local SQL / Azure / BI / etc learning, you simply cannot go past a SQL Saturday anywhere in the world!  And this one right here in Melbourne will again be no exception.  There is a lineup of fantastic local speakers including Microsoft and MVP’s as well as international speakers too. SQL Saturday Pre-Con Training (Fri 29 Jun 2018).  Melbourne.   Leading ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: James Konik; There are all sorts of streaming services competing for your attention and offering the best movies, TV and music. DAZN targets sports fans by offering a wide selection of programs to viewers around the world. If you’ve ever wondered how to watch DAZN, this is the article for you. DAZN is relatively new, but it has gained a lot of traction since it launched in 2016. It’s based in the UK, despite not being available there. In many places DAZN is the only way to watch particular tournaments or matches legally. It was the only ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Vorhies. Summary:  Despite our concerns about China taking the lead in AI, our own government efforts mostly through DARPA continue powerful leadership and funding to maintain our lead.  Here’s their plan to maintain that lead over the next decade.  Think all those great ideas that have powered AI/ML for the last 10 years came from Silicon Valley and a few universities?  Think again.  Hard as it may be to admit it’s the seed money in the billions that our government has spent that got pretty much all of these breakthroughs ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Sampa Choudhuri. 2019 is becoming an exciting year for the data management community. Many of the trends of the past few years have successfully made the transition from emerging concepts to mainstream solution approaches.While trends are important building blocks about how companies approach their data management today, they are also providing insights into future capabilities to incorporate the individual pieces into a holistic, integrated solution. The cloud is becoming the first choice for new IT systems Companies have been moving applications and IT components to the cloud for a few years to save costs, improve performance and ... Read More