Category: Cloud Offerings

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; We won! Really, we’re winning just being at AWS re:Invent. We’ve had a great week meeting attendees from all across industries and use cases to talk about cloud data transformation. But the AWS sponsor team bestowed an official honor on us today, awarding us Best in Swag for the show. We take our swag very seriously here at Team Green, so we couldn’t be more pleased. We’d like to thank the Academy, our swag distributors, and the thousands of people who stopped by to make tiny Team Transform members “for their kids” (ahem) for making ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: John Mount. [This article was first published on R – Win-Vector Blog, 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. Practical Data Science with R 2nd Edition is now in-stock at Amazon.com! Buy it for your favorite data scientist in time for the holidays! Related If you got this far, why not subscribe for updates from the site? Choose your flavor: e-mail, twitter, RSS, or facebook ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: EverSQL; Right-sizing database instances is the process of adjusting your database instances’ size to match the workload generated by the application. In most cases, the incentive to right-size your database instances will be to lower the cloud infrastructure’s costs, ideally without compromising on performance. In this post we’ll guide you through how to analyze the instance’s used resources, in an effort to identify opportunities to save on your RDS costs. How to identify memory related down-sizing opportunities MySQL has a lot of “moving parts” which may contribute to the amount of memory it needs to operate ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mike Loukides. Each month, Mike Loukides creates a list of things he finds interesting or important in the technology world. Some items are personal observations or summaries of interesting conversations. Most items on the list have links to media sources—some original sources, some from other reporting, whichever is more informative. Privacy and security trends DNS over HTTPS is rolling out in all major browsers. This is important. Although there are some security concerns, and opposition from ISPs, DNS over HTTPS makes it much more difficult for ISPs (and others) to track and resell your internet usage habits ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. re:Invent 2019 Nonprofit Hackathon for Good finalists At the re:Invent 2019 Nonprofit Hackathon for Good, more than 150 re:Invent attendees put their minds together to develop solutions for real-world challenges from four nonprofits: Best Friends Animal Society, SkyTruth, Urban Institute, and Vibrant Emotional Health. The winning team pitched a solution on how to build personalized safety plans for people calling Vibrant Emotional Health’s Lifeline, a national suicide prevention help line. Winning team members Edward Fox, Hamid Jizan, Joe Hillhouse, Rick Hoxie, and Vinit Patankar built a solution ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Peter Guagenti. MemSQL’s breakthrough new “SingleStore” data management, enhanced system of record capabilities, time series enhancements, and more, are now available instantly and on demand with MemSQL Helios. You can try MemSQL 7.0 and Helios for free, instantly. MemSQL is proud to announce the general availability of MemSQL 7.0, available first on MemSQL Helios, the company’s elastic cloud database available on public cloud providers around the globe. Fully managed and available on demand, MemSQL Helios delivers instant, effortless access to the world’s fastest, most scalable data platform for operational analytics, machine learning and AI. MemSQL 7.0 ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Eric Hanson. MemSQL is uniquely suited to real-time analytics, where data is being ingested, updated, and queried concurrently with aggregate queries. Real-time analytics use cases often are based on event data, where each separate event has a timestamp. It’s natural to interpret such a sequence of events as a time series. Prior to the 7.0 release, MemSQL delivered many capabilities that make it well-suited to time-series data management [Han19]. These include: a scaled-out, shared-nothing architecture that supports transactional and analytical workloads with a standard SQL interface, fast query execution via compilation and vectorization, combined with scale ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. Thorn’s child sex trafficking investigations tool, Spotlight, gathers information from escort sites to provide law enforcement with a tool to help find trafficked children, fast. (A Special Agent for the Wisconsin Human Trafficking Task Force describes Spotlight this way: “It is the greatest tool we have in the fight against human trafficking.“) And using MemSQL is one of the ways they do it. MemSQL is a powerful solution that meets Thorn’s requirements, including SQL support; fast query response time; support for machine learning and AI; a large and scalable number of simultaneous users; and ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle today filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. challenging the legality of the system of enforcement and adjudication established by the U.S. Department of Labor and its Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) for discrimination claims against government contractors. The complaint alleges that this system was not authorized by Congress or the President and contravenes statutory authorities.  Oracle’s complaint states that under the current system, claims against government contractors are not prosecuted in federal courts with a federal jury. Instead, the Department of Labor itself serves as investigator, prosecutor, judge, ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. We created Teradata Vantage to address the challenges of some of the world’s largest and most data-rich companies. We want to empower these enterprises to take full advantage of the best data analytics with all the benefits of the cloud. In my last post, "Data Analytics in the Cloud: It's not Just Lift and Shift," we discussed the challenges these businesses face in designing a cloud architecture. In their rush to retool themselves into cloud-forward companies, enterprises often make the same mistakes and stumble over the same roadblocks that ultimately delay their transformation. In this post, we’ll ... Read More