Tag: Virtual Machine

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Sanjay Nighojkar. By Suraj Nathani, Sr. Solutions Architect at Mactores CognitionBy Anil Patel, Data Engineer at Mactores CognitionBy Sanjay Nighojkar, Manager, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSSeagate Technology is a United States-based data storage company with worldwide manufacturing facilities that generate huge amounts of manufacturing and testing data. With petabytes of data accumulated over 20 years, and more being generated each day, it was imperative for Seagate to have systems in place to ensure the cost of collecting, storing, and processing data did not exceed their return on investment (ROI). Seagate’s on-premises big data ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Frederic Descamps; My previous post related on how to install WordPress on Oracle Cloud seemed to be very popular. To continue the exploration of OCI, today we will install Drupal. This time, even if it’s possible to use the Free Trier like in the WordPress post, I will use a pay account to have the possibility to split the Web Server and the Database into two different subnets. Both instances will have their own subnet and only the Webserver will be reachable directly from the Internet. MySQL will be installed on a private subnet that could ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Raman Kumar. Today, we're announcing the general availability for server-side encryption (SSE) with customer-managed keys (CMK) for Azure Managed Disks. Azure customers already benefit from SSE with platform-managed keys for Managed Disks enabled by default. SSE with CMK improves on platform-managed keys by giving you control of the encryption keys to meet your compliance need. Today, customers can also use Azure Disk Encryption, which leverages the Windows BitLocker feature and the Linux dm-crypt feature to encrypt Managed Disks with CMK within the guest virtual machine (VM). SSE with CMK improves on Azure Disk encryption by enabling ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; We’ve updated all of our Matillion ETL base operating systems on your virtual machine (VM) to use a CentOS Operating System, Apache Tomcat version 8.5.51 and an internal Postgres database. This will be available for all new spin-ups of Matillion ETL across all platforms and products from version 1.44 onwards. In-place upgrades, that is, updates performed either using the ‘Update’ button from the Admin Menu or manually via ‘yum’, will mean the VM will remain on your existing Operating System and version of Tomcat. Therefore we recommend that you spin up a new instance and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Yuemin Lu. Today marks the general availability of new Azure disk sizes, including 4, 8, and 16 GiB on both Premium and Standard SSDs, as well as bursting support on Azure Premium SSD Disks. To provide the best performance and cost balance for your production workloads, we are making significant improvements to our portfolio of Azure Premium SSD disks. With bursting, even the smallest Premium SSD disks (4 GiB) can now achieve up to 3,500 input/output operations per second (IOPS) and 170 MiB/second. If you have experienced jitters in disk IOs due to unpredictable load and spiky ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Service Catalog allows organizations to create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on AWS. These IT services can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. AWS Service Catalog allows you to centrally manage commonly deployed IT services, and helps you achieve consistent governance and meet your compliance requirements, while enabling users to quickly deploy only the approved IT services they need.Learn more about the AWS GovCloud (US) ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Service Quotas helps you to view and manage service quota information centrally for your AWS services. Now, you can use the Service Quotas console, AWS Command Line Interface, and AWS SDK to view service quota information for AWS Service Catalog, such as the number of products per portfolio and the number of product versions per product. There is no additional cost to view AWS Service Catalog quota information in Service Quotas. AWS Service Catalog allows organizations to create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on AWS. These IT services can include everything ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Raman Kumar. We're announcing the general availability of incremental snapshots of Azure Managed Disks. Incremental snapshots are a cost-effective, point-in-time backup of managed disks. Unlike current snapshots, which are billed for the full size, incremental snapshots are billed for the delta changes to disks since the last snapshot and are always stored on the most cost-effective storage, Standard HDD storage irrespective of the storage type of the parent disks. For additional reliability, incremental snapshots are stored on Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) by default in regions that support ZRS. Incremental snapshots provide differential capability, enabling customers ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Ziv Rafalovich. Late last year, we’ve announced the general availability of Azure Dedicated Hosts. This blog provides an update regarding the new and recently added capabilities since we introduced Azure Dedicated Hosts in preview. Azure Dedicated Host provides a single-tenant physical server to run your Azure Virtual Machines for Windows Server and Linux. With Azure Dedicated Host, you can address specific compliance requirements while increasing visibility and control over your underlying infrastructure. What’s new Save costs with Azure Dedicated Hosts reservations We recently introduced the ability for you to purchase Azure reservations for Dedicated Hosts ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Jameson Haas. The machine that runs your instance of Elasticsearch will indicate vital signs of performance. Eyes on the CPU, memory usage, and disk I/O will ensure optimal Elasticsearch node performance in production. Elasticsearch node | CPU Performance You may notice that your Elasticsearch instance can easily eat up CPU. CPU peaks are expected but underlying issues could be lurking. Whether it is clear performance issues or not, there will certainly be an opportunity for performance optimization. The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) indicators will likely coincide with the spikes in CPU you see in your Elasticsearch ... Read More