Tag: Technical

Feed: CIO. Author: . “COVID-19 has escalated digital initiatives into digital imperatives,” analyst firm, Gartner, noted in describing how leaders need to rethink how an organisation approaches the years ahead.It’s true that enterprises are having to rapidly grapple with this issue; KPMG has noted that by 2022, 80 per cent of revenue growth will depend on digital offerings and operations. For CIOs, the need to undertake digital transformation is a challenge that they face in the immediate term; not just for “keeping the lights on” and allowing work to continue through the pandemic, but rather to also drive competitive advantage ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. And why is it better than a Data Lake or an Analytics Hub? In the opening installment of this blog series—Data Lakes, Data Warehouses and Data Hubs: Do we need another choice?  I explore why simply migrating these on-prem data integration, management, and analytics platforms to the Cloud does not fully address modern data analytics needs. In comparing these three platforms, it becomes clear that while all of them meet certain critical needs, none of them meet the needs of business end-users without significant support from IT. What we in fact need is a platform ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce the launch of the updated AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials digital course on Coursera and edX. If you’re new to the cloud or in a technical or non-technical role such as finance, legal, sales, or marketing, this course provides you with an understanding of fundamental AWS Cloud concepts to help you gain the confidence to contribute to your organization’s cloud initiatives. After completing the course, you’ll understand the benefits of the AWS Cloud and its global infrastructure. You’ll also be able to describe core AWS services, including compute, network, database, ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Andrew Grinaker. It’s our privilege to announce the 2021 Tableau Zen Masters. We’ve selected 14 new community leaders who represent the tenets of the Zen program: teacher, master, and collaborator. Following a decision to invite all 2020 Zen Masters to return for another year as we addressed the needs of our community, these new leaders join the existing 29 for Tableau’s largest, most regionally and linguistically diverse group to date! When we come together as a community, we’re able to showcase the best of what we can be, and the Tableau Zen Master program illustrates this at ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Allison Wu. Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Corey Clawson at NODES 2019 in October 2019.Project GoalsThis project is an outgrowth of my graduate studies, which looked at archipelagic and archive studies, and analyzed what they have in common. Initial goals for this project included the following: Offer a means of considering/modeling artistic influence. Consider the cultural flows of concepts of sexuality and gender as well as artistic strategies. Map artistic communities’ formation via processes of migration and urbanization. Eventually, what I arrived at is that the connectedness and dispersion of those ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Investing time, effort and money in technology certifications to improve understanding and competency across a range of technical skills certainly adds value from a personal development perspective but what does it actually mean in terms of job prospects and salary increases? Are all certifications equal or are some more valuable than others? The 2021 IDG Insider Pro and Computerworld IT Salary Survey of 1,172 IT professionals tried to understand current thinking on certifications and to garner some real-world experiences on how they are viewed by employers. With IT skills shortages rife – recruiter Hays claims that ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Jeremy Winter. Migrating to the cloud is an evolution, and it's important to think differently about how you consume resources. As you're building a business case in your organization, it's critical to step back and understand the cloud's key constructs and transform your mindset. It starts by having a conversation about today versus tomorrow and what is possible in the cloud, as with this migration, you will get instant access to innovative technologies and several new options that do not exist on-premises. Azure is here to help you start your cloud journey strong with key financial and technical guidance ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Benjamin Smith. [This article was first published on r – bensstats, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Its been a while since I last posted anything on my blog, so I thought I would share an update. Recently, I had the opportunity to present for my midterm examination a deep learning framework of my choosing. I chose to give a talk on (you guessed it!) convolutional neural networks ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Customers needing to keep an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instance stopped for more than 7 days, look for ways to efficiently re-stop the database after being automatically started by Amazon RDS. If the database is started and there is no mechanism to stop it; customers start to pay for the instance’s hourly cost. Moreover, customers with database licensing agreements could incur penalties for running beyond their licensed cores/users. Stopping and starting a DB instance is faster than creating a DB snapshot, and then restoring the snapshot. However, if you plan to keep the Amazon ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Jon Gitlin; A number of your organization’s apps offer pre-built integrations. Your CRM may offer native integrations with Slack, Quickbooks, and MailChimp; your marketing automation tool may provide integrations with Salesforce, On24, and Gmail; your business communications platform could have integrations with Zoom, Google Drive, Salesforce—and so on, and so forth. As you review the variety of native integrations your apps provide, you should stop to consider whether they’re worth implementing versus those provided by a middleware, 3rd-party platform. To help guide you in your decision, we’ll walk you through the pros and cons ... Read More