Category: Azure

Feed: Redis. Author: John Noonan. What is high availability architecture? A high available architecture is when there are a number of different components, modules, or services that work together to maintain optimal performance, irrespective of peak-time loads. In its purest sense, this system allows businesses to work continuously without failure over a given period of time. Many businesses can’t afford even a minute of downtime. Considering that data is the lifeblood of many businesses, even just a short period of downtime can be incredibly costly.  In certain real-life scenarios, lives may depend on a database built for high availability. When ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Pippa White. Research, supply chain, manufacturing, and sales increasingly depend on partnerships in a digital ecosystem. Cloud-based analytics makes it possible to collaborate intelligently at scale. For years, life sciences companies have been justifiably cautious about moving their data science functions into the cloud. Although the industry’s central purpose is to accelerate innovation in science and healthcare, companies are conservative when it comes to data—and with good reason. Regulatory scrutiny and reputational risk mean that information security is paramount where patient medical records are concerned, and the results of clinical trials are commercially sensitive too. The ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft SQL Server Blog. Author: Bob Ward. Introducing a new blog post series to highlight new features and enhancements available with SQL Server 2022. SQL Server 2022, now in public preview, is our most Azure-enabled release yet, with continued innovation across performance, security, and availability. With connections to Azure Synapse, Microsoft Purview, and Azure SQL Managed Instance, it is a key offering within the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform, which fully integrates databases, analytics, and governance, enabling organizations to move beyond fragmentation and unlock new capabilities.  In our upcoming SQL Server 2022 blog series, you will learn about new innovation, ... Read More

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. With Power BI continuing to get many great new features, including the latest in Datamarts (see my blog Power BI Datamarts), I’m starting to hear customers ask “Can I just build my entire enterprise data warehouse solution in Power BI”? In other words, can I just use Power BI and all its built-in features instead of using Azure Data Lake Gen2, Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure Synapse, Databricks, etc? The short answer is “No”. First off, as far as Datamarts, I do not recommend using this new capability as a compete or replacement ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Takuto Higuchi. The capacity of a system to adjust to changes by adding or removing resources to meet demand is known as scalability. Here are some tests to check the scalability of your model. System testing System tests are carried out to test the robustness of the design of a system for given inputs and expected outputs (for example, an MLOps pipeline, inference). Acceptance tests (to fulfill user requirements) can be performed as part of system tests. A/B testing A/B testing is performed by sending production traffic to alternate systems that will be evaluated. Statistical ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS SSO is where you create, or connect, your workforce identities in AWS once and manage access centrally across your AWS organization. You can choose to manage access just to your AWS accounts or cloud applications. You can create user identities directly in AWS SSO, or you can bring them from your Microsoft Active Directory or a standards-based identity provider, such as Okta Universal Directory or Azure AD. With AWS SSO, you get a unified administration experience to define, customize, and assign fine-grained access. Your workforce users get a user portal to access all of their assigned ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Michael Flanakin. Whether you're a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you're spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Microsoft Cost Management comes in. We're always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Microsoft Cost Management can help you better understand where you're accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower you to do ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Manuel Wimmer. By Manuel Wimmer, Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect – T-Systems International GmbH T-Systems With AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a central way to manage user identities and permissions. However, creating and managing the lifecycle of IAM users in AWS can be time-consuming. Each time an employee joins a company, moves departments, or leaves a company, IAM users have to be created, permissions have to be changed to grant or remove access on AWS services, and finally, IAM users have to be removed to revoke access. Many ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Ashley Lozito; The Matillion ETL data integration platform received another round of incremental improvements with the release of Version 1.64! Keep reading below for the highlights included in this newest version.Summary of Releases: 3 new connectors 1 enhancement 2 new features added New and Updated Source ConnectorsWe’ve updated 3 connectors in the 1.64 release. With these updates, we are expanding our support for data ecosystems that are ever-growing in size and complexity. API Extract ConnectorWe have fixed the issue in our API Extract connector with the Bearer Token  in Matillion ETL 1.64.4.The component was not passing the configured ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning (ML)-powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud that supports identity federation in both Standard and Enterprise editions. Organizations are working towards centralizing their identity and access strategy across all their applications, including on premises, third-party, and applications on AWS. Many organizations use identity providers (IdPs) based on OIDC or SAML-based protocols like Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) or Okta to control and manage user authentication and authorization centrally. If your organization uses such IdPs for cloud applications, you may want to enable federation ... Read More