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Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Here’s a snapshot of what you can do with Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise:Visually build continuous delivery pipelines for your infrastructure code in minutes with an intuitive web UI and automatically promote infrastructure code across environments based on your desired approval workflows and criteria.Automate the way you test and promote changes to control repos and modules, so you can deliver infrastructure changes faster and with more confidence.Get full visibility into changes with activity histories and audit trails to align teams and managers on every deploy, and to help triage things quickly when the ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Andrés Osorio. Aunque el costo exacto es incalculable, las pérdidas por fraude representan aproximadamente el 5% de los ingresos anuales de una organización, según la Asociación de Examinadores de Fraude Certificados (ACFE). Se calcula que diariamente son saqueados más de 11 mil millones de dólares a la economía global producto de robos, estafas o usurpaciones, entre otros delitos. Uno de los principales sectores afectados por fraudes es el financiero. Según el FMI, las pérdidas por los ataques cibernéticos (una de las más frecuentes modalidades de fraude en esta era digital) podrían costar a los bancos alrededor ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. repmgr is an open-source toolset from 2ndQuadrant, a leading specialist in PostgreSQL-related technologies and services. The product is used to automate, enhance, and manage PostgreSQL streaming replication.Streaming replication in PostgreSQL has been around since version 9.0. Natively setting up and managing streaming replication involves a number of manual steps which includes: Configuring replication parameters in both primary and each standby node Backing up primary node data with pg_basebackup from each standby node and restoring it there Restarting the standby node(s) From an operational side, a few tasks include: Checking replication status using SQL statements Promoting a standby ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Todd Wright. A long-held belief in the field of analytics is that only 20% of a person’s time is spent analyzing data – the remaining 80% is devoted to preparing data. It's a sobering statistic to say the least. Even more so as the need to get insights from data in real time rises in importance. To fight fraud, understand customers and evolve to using artificial intelligence, organizations can no longer afford to rely on the IT department to handle data preparation as business users sit and wait. Enter self-service data preparation Thus has been the ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; On 8 November, Puppet is kicking off a brand new webinar series called Talking Tech, where we’ll host discussions about exciting new technology that’s driving the industry forward. Join our industry experts, partners and customers as we dive deep into topics that matter to IT and answer your biggest questions.Our first three sessions of the series are:Delivering Infrastructure and Security Policy as Code with Puppet and CyberArk Conjur on 8 NovemberLearn how to safeguard your corporate secrets and deliver applications faster with Puppet and CyberArk Conjur.Manage F5 BIG-IP Infrastructure with Puppet on 14 ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. The hybrid cloud is not just a consideration, but for our customers, especially our larger customers, already a reality. To understand what we mean when we say hybrid cloud, we first need to define two terms: Hybrid Cloud: Uses mix of on-premises and one or more clouds. Multi-cloud: Uses two or more clouds. Typically, companies are using both hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. When we talk to our customers about hybrid cloud and or multi-clouds, we often hear the following: We want to use the best-of-breed cloud for a workload. We want to be cloud agnostic. One cloud provider does ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Today we are thrilled to announce, alongside our friends at Google, a new project between Google and Puppet to make it easy to manage Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services with Puppet. To learn more, register for the webinar with me and Nelson Araujo from Google on 13 September 2017.The initial release includes five open source Puppet Approved modules for managing GCP services, using the Puppet DSL. All are available from the Puppet Forge.The modulesThere is also one additional helper module that provides a single unified authentication mechanism for all modules that is available ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Recently there were some complaints about the behaviour of the jsonb_set function. Specifically, the complain was that if the value argument of the function is null the result is null. This happens because the function is declared STRICT, like many PostgreSQL functions. STRICT is in fact another way of spelling RETURNS NULL ON NULL INPUT.There are numerous advantages to having functions with this behaviour. It makes the code simpler and thus more efficient if it doesn’t have to worry about NULL arguments, and can just assume that they are not NULL. This function has been in PostgreSQL ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Leo Sadovy. Where in your business process can analytics and AI play a contributing role in enhancing your decision making capability?  At the information interpretation stage.  As a framework for understanding where analytic and AI opportunities may arise, the simple diagram below illustrates the relationships between data, information and knowledge, and how you get from one end to the other.  The key is how you come to understand the arrows (the verbs)  that link the three primary concepts (the nouns). Information is organized data.  The same data can be organized differently to yield different information sets ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. United Arab Emirates-based global EdTech Alef Education is on a mission to digitally transform the education sector to support its most valuable resource: teachers. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics estimates that the world needs almost 69 million new teachers by 2030 to meet the deadline of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal for quality education. But according to latest projections, the world will fail its education commitments without addressing the teacher shortage. Overwhelming teacher workload is a major contributor to ... Read More