Category: Online Training

Feed: Blog. Author: Joy Ruff; On December 19th, 2017, Ron Huizenga presented a DATAVERSITY webinar on the importance of organizational maturity. His experience with manufacturing flows and Six Sigma standards provides him with a unique perspective, which is enhanced by his years as an enterprise architecture consultant. This blog captures some of the key points from the session.The Data Maturity Model, based on the Capability Maturity Model developed by IBM’s Watts Humphrey, provides a guideline for understanding what level an organization has achieved across several categories, such as data quality and data governance. Businesses must transition incrementally between the levels ... Read More

Feed: Severalnines. Nginx is well-known for its ability to act as a reverse-proxy with small memory footprint. It usually sits in the front-end web tier to redirect connections to available backend services, provided these passed some health checks. Using a reverse-proxy is common when you are running a critical application or service that requires high availability. It also distributes the load equally among the backend services. Recently, nginx 1.9 introduced support for TCP load balancing - similar to what HAProxy is capable of. The one major drawback is that it does not support advanced backend health checks. This is required ... Read More

Feed: Severalnines. Choosing your HA topologyThere are various ways to retain high availability with databases. You can use Virtual IPs (VRRP) to manage host availability, you can use resource managers like Zookeeper and Etcd to (re)configure your applications or use load balancers/proxies to distribute the workload over all available hosts. The Virtual IPs need either an application to manage them (MHA, Orchestrator), some scripting (KeepaliveD, Pacemaker/Corosync) or an engineer to manually fail over and the decision making in the process can become complex. The Virtual IP failover is a straightforward and simple process by removing the IP address from one ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: James Konik; There are many tools out there for project management and Asana is one of our favorites; it even made the top five in the roundup of the best project management software. Getting started with new software is easier if you have a few pointers, so we’ve put together this Asana beginner’s guide to help you on your way. If you prefer Trello over Asana, check out our Trello beginner’s guide, instead. If you want to see how the two stack up, read our Trello vs Asana comparison review. Asana gives you a simple way to ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jennifer Bourn; If you’re not using content marketing to expand your brand reach, increase your visibility, and connect with ideal clients and your greater audience, you’re already behind because your competitors are and it’s helping them win business that could be yours.Take a look at these stats:From social media posts, live videos, podcasts, and YouTube channels, to blog posts, white papers, ebooks, and articles, content marketing has taken over and it’s not going anywhere. The problem is content marketing isn’t easy, there isn’t one clear roadmap to follow, and most businesses who are trying to make ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a leading designer, developer, and global supplier of digital and analog semiconductor connectivity solutions. Their products power a wide range of technologies, from enterprise-grade networking hardware to the smartphones we use every day. Named a Forbes 100 Digital Company in 2018, Broadcom has over 14,000 employees and 16 offices worldwide. As businesses like Broadcom continue to push towards digital transformation, IT’s role within the organization changes dramatically. In fact, more than 75% of IT professionals say that pressure on their processes is increasing (according to a Freeform Dynamics ... Read More

Feed: Blog – OrientDB. Author: Luca Garulli. If you’re familiar with “the three Vs” of data (volume, variety, and velocity) then you’re also probably aware that all three Vs are increasing exponentially.  There’s more data out there than ever before. There are more types of data out there than ever before. And data is moving at faster speeds than ever before.And we shouldn’t forget the fourth V: value.  Indeed, data is also more valuable than ever before. Last year, The Economist called it the new oil.  With data being so valuable, you need a database capable of handling the massive ... Read More

Feed: OrientDB Distributed Multi-Model Graph Database » Blog. Author: Paolo Puccini. Neo4j vs OrientDB.  Which is the Best Graph Database? Selecting the right graph database to power your application is no easy task. Competitors such as Neo4j* offer pricey licensing models with a limited array of features for their Community Editions.  Join us in our free “Neo4j vs OrientDB” webinar and learn how OrientDB, a 2nd generation multi-model database, provides a feature-rich open source offer as well as a robust set of Enterprise tools. Power your application with OrientDB and make the most of its native Graph & Document capabilities! During this webinar ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. The University of Arizona addressed the challenge of creating a more efficient and agile IT operation by deciding to go all-in on the cloud. After initial success in migrating their Kuali Research Administration system, they created a roadmap and began migrating their PeopleSoft application environments, including Enterprise Learning (EL), Human Resources (HR), and Student Administration (SA) to AWS.The University of Arizona has 42,000 students with more than 300 majors. To be responsive to their students, they are in the process of migrating over 95 enterprise services to the cloud. “We decided ... Read More

Feed: IDERA Community Blog; Author: Zoe Bell; SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IDERA, (a division of Idera, Inc.), a provider of powerful database productivity tools, today announced an SQL Server performance presentation and the 2018 members of its Advisors and Community Educators (ACE) program at the annual PASS Summit 2017, the world’s largest gathering of SQL Server professionals. At IDERA’s PASS Summit booth (#112), the company will feature the following tools: SQL Diagnostic Manager - helps database administrators (DBAs) easily monitor and view the performance of their physical and virtual server environments. ER/Studio 17 - includes significant enhancements to ER/Studio Business Architect for business process modeling ... Read More