Tag: use case

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Understanding Windows system and service health on a global scale is challenging. You capture server log data, and then analyze and manipulate the data in real time to create actionable telemetry insights. Amazon Kinesis Agent for Microsoft Windows makes it efficient to ingest Windows server log data into your AWS ecosystem for analysis. This blog post discusses using Kinesis Agent for Windows to capture and aggregate Windows Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server logs. Then turning that data into service health graphs in Amazon CloudWatch.How do you quantify network access metrics of a team across ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. re:Invent 2018 is around the corner! This year, data and analytics tracks are bigger than ever.This blog post highlights the data and analytics sessions at re:Invent 2018. If you’re attending this year, you want to check out the sessions, workshops, chalk talks, and builder sessions that we have at the conference. As in previous years, you can find these events in various topic categories, such as Analytics, Deep Learning, AI Summit, Serverless, Architecture, and Databases. We have great sessions from Intuit, Nike, Intel, WuXi NextCODE, Warner Brothers, AutoDesk, NFL, SendGrid, McDonald, AirBnB, Hilton, Guardian Life, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Tom Tasker, EMEA Storage Partner Solutions Architect at AWSThe most commonly used file shares have traditionally taken the form of dedicated and special purpose hardware in the datacenter, managed by storage specialists. The files are hosted, secured, and delivered either via Network File System (NFS) exports for Unix or Server Message Block (SMB) shares for Windows. In this post, we’ll take a look at a solution from SoftNAS, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner with the AWS Storage Competency. Their solution can consolidate file shares onto Amazon Web ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: James Staten. Every company needs edge computing on its technology road map starting in 2019. While many of you may see edge as exclusive to IoT, its value is much wider and will prove as critical to driving up customer experience as content delivery networks (CDN) were in the early days of the web . . . . . . which explains why you are now seeing edge compute and AI services from all the major cloud vendors and on the road maps of the leading telecom companies. Twenty-seven percent of global telecom decision makers, ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. This blog is about my work on the Postgres open source database, and is published on Planet PostgreSQL. PgLife allows monitoring of all Postgres community activity. Optimizer Hints Wednesday, December 12, 2018 You might know that Postgres has optimizer hints listed as a feature we do not want to implement. I have covered this topic in the past. This presentation from Tatsuro Yamada covers the trade-offs of optimizer hints in more detail than I have ever seen before. Starting on slide 29, Yamada-san explains the number-one reason to use optimizer hints — as a short-term fix for ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sujay Talasila. Azure offers built-in disaster recovery (DR) solution for Azure Virtual Machines through Azure Site Recovery (ASR). In addition to the broadest global coverage, Azure has the most comprehensive resiliency strategy in the industry from mitigating rack level failures with Availability Sets and data center failures with Availability Zones to protecting against large-scale events with failover to separate regions with ASR. A common question we get is about costs associated with configuring DR for Azure virtual machines. We have listened and prioritized. Configuring disaster recovery for Azure VMs using ASR will incur the following ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Baiju NT. We recently interviewed Pankaj Rai, a well-known expert in analytics and banking and is currently the Senior Vice President Strategy at Wells Fargo. The former Analytics Director at Dell International Services, Pankaj shared his views on some of the hot topics in the financial & banking sector right now – digital transformation, innovation in fintech, new regulations, and blockchain to name a few. Read the complete interview below: What does your day typically look like at Wells Fargo? How do you start and end your day? (Laughs) My days are quite straightforward ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Anna Thomas. I’m Anna Thomas, an Applied Data Scientist within Microsoft Engineering. My goals are to enable the field and partners to better integrate various AI tools into their applications. Recently, my team reached out to Microsoft News to see how they’re analyzing their data, and how our services may be able to help. Microsoft News ingests more than 100,000 articles and videos every day from various news providers. With so many different aspects such as classifying news topics, tagging and translating content, I was immediately interested in understanding how they process all of that ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Henry Axelrod, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSThe ability for modern organizations to share information and documents is more important than ever. In today’s global environment, having file sharing that is limited to a single datacenter is no longer sufficient for many companies. IT administrators need to provide business-efficient ways to share those documents. File sync and share platforms allow companies to share files within their organization, beyond the boundaries of their own datacenter. Instead of accessing all files from a single location, with sync and share the files can be ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. In this blog entry we’ll talk about logical replication in PostgreSQL: its use cases, general information on the status of this technology, and a special use case in particular on how to setup a subscriber (replica) node of the primary server in order to function as the database server for the testing environment, and the challenges met. Intro Logical replication, officially introduced in PostgreSQL 10, is the latest replication technology offered by the PostgreSQL community. Logical replication is a continuation of the legacy of physical replication with which it shares a lot of ideas and code. Logical ... Read More