Tag: Updates

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. Thales, a provider of cyber security and data protection, is now supporting Google Cloud Platform’s Customer-Supplied Encryption Key (CSEK) functionality and will provide key management services for Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365.By offering support for Google Cloud platform, users can now generate, protect, and supply their encryption keys to the cloud using an on-premise, FIPS-certified nShield hardware security module (HSM) from Thales.The new CSEK support empowers enterprise customers who want to move workloads and data to the Google Cloud Platform, but need to retain control of their key material on-premise.“They now ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sarah Fender. While the cloud may have initially raised some security concerns among enterprises, Microsoft is changing those dynamics. By tapping into the collective power of millions of cloud customers, Microsoft can help each customer more effectively defend against the increasing volume and sophistication of attacks. Azure Security Center has released a number of new capabilities that leverage this collective intelligence to not only detect threats, but also do a better job of preventing them. Advanced cloud defenses   Some traditional security controls deliver important protection from threats, but have proved to be too costly to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Marley Gray. Anatomy of a Smart Contract The concept of a Smart Contract has been around for awhile and is largely attributed to Nick Szabo’s work in the late 1990s. However, it remained an abstract concept until the summer of 2015 with the Frontier release of Ethereum as its first implementation. The promise of Smart Contracts is sprawling and has gotten the attention of every industry as a revolutionary disrupter that can change the way business is done forever. That remains to be seen, but like most first implementations of significantly important technology, there are ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sam George. As part of Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to open source and interoperability in IoT, I’m pleased to announce the release of a new open source project to enable devices that are connected to Azure IoT Hub to store data in a Cassandra database. The code can be found on GitHub. With this new Cassandra connector, developers can easily build solutions that harness IoT-scale fleets of devices and store data from them in Cassandra tables for later analysis. The library can also be fully customized, if needed. Developers can define the schema of Cassandra tables ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We have an exciting release of Power BI Desktop this month. It includes several formatting features that have been top asks and new Quick Calcs for your measures. We also have several updates to data connectors and two new query editing options. Here’s the complete list of February updates: Report view Analytics Data connectivity Query editing improvements Other For a summary of the major updates, you can watch the following video: Last month, we added word wrap for table headers, and this month we are extending that support to ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL. Author: Geir Hoydalsvik. There are several advantages to keeping up to date with the latest major versions of MySQL. To provide a short example using MySQL 5.7: Let application developers benefit from new functionality, e.g. JSON in 5.7 Use your hardware infrastructure more efficiently with parallel slaves in 5.7 Improve monitoring or management for DevOps with more performance schema instrumentation in 5.7 Improve security by using features like  transparent data encryption, firewall, auditing, and sha256 authentication in 5.7 Keep within the EOL window for access to maintenance releases and support This blog post explains general activities in an upgrade ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL. Author: MySQL High Availability. In this blog post, we will describe our Paxos-based solution, named eXtended COMmunications, or simply XCOM, which is a key component in the MySQL Group Replication. XCOM is responsible for disseminating transactions to MySQL instances that are members in a group and for managing their membership. Its key functionalities are: Ordered Delivery: Guarantees that messages (i.e. transactions) are delivered by the same order at all members Dynamic Membership: Provides functionalities to manage the set of MySQL Server instances belonging to the group Failure Detection: Along with Dynamic Membership, decides upon the fate of failed ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Manling Zhang. We are very excited to let you know that this feature is now available with Azure CDN from Verizon. The end-to-end workflow to enable HTTPS for your custom domain is simplified via one-click enablement, complete certificate management, and all with no additional cost. It's critical to ensure the privacy and data integrity of all your web applications sensitive data while it is in transit. Using the HTTPS protocol ensures that your sensitive data is encrypted when it's sent across the internet. Azure CDN has supported HTTPS for many years, but was only supported when you ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Venkat Gattamneni. We strive hard at Azure to offer you the best value in one of the most cost effective ways in the public cloud. We believe in providing a comprehensive cloud platform that not only enables customers to innovate rapidly, but to also do so at the best possible prices. To that end, today we are happy to announce significant price reductions on several Azure Virtual Machine families and Storage types. We hope this will further lower the barrier to entry for our customers and accelerate cloud transformation. Azure Virtual Machines: We have reduced ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. SAP is enhancing its enterprise information management portfolio with updated support and connectivity for big data sources, improved data stewardship and metadata management capabilities.“We are introducing new innovations from the SAP enterprise information management portfolio that helps our customers deliver information excellence for their digital enterprise,” said Philip On, vice president, product marketing of SAP.SAP Data Services offers extended big data support and connectivity for integrating and loading large and diverse data types. The latest version includes a patent-pending data extraction capability providing fast data transfer from Google BigQuery to any data ... Read More