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Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. The FinCEN Files InvestigationThe International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has recently exposed a vast network of industrial-scale money laundering running through Western banks and generally ignored by U.S. regulators – and they used Neo4j to help crack the case wide open.The global investigation, dubbed the FinCEN Files, reveals how money launderers move their dirty money. From drug cartels and corrupt regimes to arms trafficking and other international crimes, these global banks have turned a blind eye – or even straight up refused to stop – as they earn huge profits from ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Continuent; Cloud-Based Active/Active Tungsten MySQL Clusters @ Bluefin Payments Please join us on Wednesday September 30th at 10am PT for a discussion about geo-distributed active/active MySQL replication for Financial Services SaaS Providers based on a case study of Continuent customer Bluefin Payments, and on how to guarantee credit card transaction availability with geo-distributed Tungsten MySQL clusters. Financial Services typically require two or more active data centers to provide their customers with continuous availability along with quick response times. Bluefin Payments uses co-located data centers with active/active replication between each MySQL cluster, which provides a complete, local ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: James Phillips. This morning, Alysa Taylor and I are welcoming the global community of technology professionals to Microsoft Ignite in two key segments streaming live and rebroadcast throughout the event.This community will play a leading role in realizing the vision and priorities we're discussing at Microsoft Ignitesolutions to help build resiliency into every layer of business and that help you weather today's challenges so you can proactively get ahead of tomorrow's opportunitiesto reimagine tomorrow. Today, we are announcing new capabilities across Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 to help deliver this vision, including:Low code ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Starting this month, we have merged the Power BI Desktop, Service and Mobile blogs, so there is one overview of everything that is new in this month. Many thanks to Sujata and Nikhil for owning the Desktop and Service/Mobile blogs! We are planning several other changes to the blog, so stay tuned. After 10 years, support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020. In line with this, we will be stopping support for Power BI Desktop on Windows 7 on Jan 31st 2021. After that, Power BI Desktop ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Many times we see users use PowerPoint, text boxes, interactive headers, or custom visuals to add narrative to their data.  All these options either lack interactive data, interactive and customizable text, or useful automatic insights. We are very excited to announce the preview of Smart narrative visual which can help you with this. The Smart narrative visualization helps you quickly summarize visuals and reports by providing relevant out-of-the-box insights that are customizable. Using this feature creators can add narratives to their report to address key takeaways, point out trends, edit the language, and format ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Néstor Gándara. By Néstor Gándara, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Piyush Agarwal, AWS Ambassador at VirtusaVirtusa recently assisted a provider-sponsored health insurance company that insures 1.2 million members in New York City and downstate New York in migrating their Pega 7.2 environment on Pega Cloud to Pega 8.4 on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Over the past several years, Virtusa’s client has been leveraging Pega’s cloud services to develop and operate production Pega applications. With the continued development and growth of the applications and data in a large single environment, it became overly difficult ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Nick Campbell; Is your business protected from the next ransomware attack? There is danger in ransomware attacks, as well as in ransomware variants that keep emerging to target servers, websites, and specific organizations such as local municipalities. Ransomware maintains its position as one of the most profitable business models in cybercrime. Recent figures show that ransomware has filled hackers’ pockets with $11.5 billion in 2019, compared to $5 billion in 2017. In the first half of 2019 alone, Sodinokibi (REvil) ransomware strains claimed 23 municipal governments in Texas, while two small cities in Florida were scared ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an important aspect of today’s technology world, and processing data in compliance with GDPR is a necessity for those who implement solutions within the AWS public cloud. One article of GDPR is the “right to erasure” or “right to be forgotten” which may require you to implement a solution to delete specific users’ personal data.In the context of the AWS big data and analytics ecosystem, every architecture, regardless of the problem it targets, uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as the core storage service. Despite its versatility and ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Continuent; Large Number of On-premises Tungsten MySQL Clusters @ Marketo Thanks to those who could join us this week for our High Volume MySQL HA use case webinar on how to guarantee continuous operations for a SaaS provider with billions of daily transactions and terabytes of data using Tungsten MySQL Clusters. If you missed the webinar or would like to see it again, the replay is now available to watch at your convenience.  In this webinar, Continuent CEO Eero Teerikorpi discussed some common challenges SaaS providers face, such as having to provide 24/7/365 operations with zero ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Customers use AWS Lambda and AWS Step Functions together to build scalable serverless applications, where Lambda provides serverless compute and Step Functions orchestrates functions into workflows that process data, handle business transactions, or drive long-running processes. Now you can visualize where and how your functions are composed into serverless workflows without leaving the Lambda console. You can navigate with ease between your functions, the workflows they are involved in, and workflow executions, making it easier to develop your serverless applications. AWS Step Functions is a serverless orchestrator that makes it easy to sequence AWS Lambda functions and ... Read More