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Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R/exams. [This article was first published on R/exams, 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. Resources and experiences shared by the R/exams community for supporting distance learning in different learning management systems. Motivation The COVID-19 pandemic forced many of us to switch abruptly from our usual teaching schedules to distance learning formats. Within days or a couple of weeks, it was necessary to deliver courses in live streams or ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . As we enter the seventh month of the COVID-19 crisis in Australia, businesses are continuing to manage through the tough rules impacting the economy with so much uncertainty hanging over their heads. While the economy and business environment have made some structural shifts in the way organisations operate, what will be the new reality moving forward is still being determined.Despite this backdrop, we’re starting to see so many great achievements among Gartner’s CIO clients in Australia, irrespective of where their company landed on the COVID-19 hierarchy, whether they’re making money, breaking even or downscaling. In the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Edwin Galang. By Edwin Galang, Cloud Solutions Architect at CohesityBy Girish Chanchlani, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSIt’s no secret that data is growing at a staggering rate, and the challenge for enterprises is how to manage this growth in a cost-effective manner. According to IDC’s Data Age 2025 whitepaper, published in late 2018, data will grow to 175 ZB by the year 2025, with an annual growth of over 60 percent per year. In addition to managing the data, CIOs are looking for ways to get insights out of the data so their ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Elaine Perales. By Elaine Perales, Manager, Global Programs at AWSThe APN Ambassador Program is a vibrant worldwide community of technical experts from AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners. APN Ambassadors are prominent leaders who are passionate about sharing their Amazon Web Services (AWS) technical expertise. They author blogs and whitepapers, create and deliver public presentations, and contribute to open source projects. APN Ambassadors evangelize AWS via social media and facilitate peer-to-peer learning by presenting at conferences, leading workshops, and hosting user group events. As a result of their membership in the APN Ambassador ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Microsoft previewed Project Cortex, a suite of cloud-based AI-powered services designed to understand content and help users automate processes with it, at its Ignite developer conference in Orlando last year.The first of those services to go on sale, SharePoint Syntex, will be revealed at this year’s Ignite, a virtual event taking place in your browser this week.The content management tool learns to extract important or relevant semantic information from documents for use in workflows or for enforcing policies. Enterprises might use it to automate the processing of requests for proposals (RFPs) or service contracts to filter ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. Tuesday, September 22, 2020 is National Voter Registration Day, a nonpartisan civic holiday in the United States celebrating democracy with a mission to create broad awareness of registration opportunities for voters. On National Voter Registration Day and throughout the election cycle, nonprofit civic organizations use the cloud to meet their mission in a secure, scalable, and cost-effective way. With the support of election administrators, civic organizations encourage voters to verify their registration, register to vote, learn about early voting, find their polling place, request ballots, sign-up for election reminders, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Percy Mohale. T-Digital, a division of Tshwane University Technology Enterprise Holding (TUTEH) in South Africa, built TRes, a digital platform for students living in student housing and for accommodation providers. TRes connects students with available housing and verified and authorized property owners. It addresses student accommodation needs and helps verified and approved property owners fully allocate their residences, while alleviating administrative burden. The platform aims to create ongoing interaction between students, accommodation providers, and university administrators.With help from Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional Services, T-Digital experienced flexibility, agility, and realized cost savings. Read on ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. With the global shift to remote learning during this year’s back-to-school season, the need for flexible and comprehensive learning tools is more important than ever. To help, AWS Educate introduced new features including the Cloud Builder Badge for students and no-cost learning content and professional development for educators.K12 educators doing blended or remote learning have a new option to introduce their students to cloud concepts with the recently launched new and improved Cloud Builder Badge. The Cloud Builder badge helps students learn about the AWS Management Console and AWS ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Bill Tarr. By Bill Tarr, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect, AWS SaaS FactoryMany software-as-a-service (SaaS) organizations leverage AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) as the backbone of their tenant isolation strategy. IAM enables organizations to define a series of policies and roles that can be used to ensure tenants are not allowed to cross tenant boundaries when accessing resources. The challenge here is that, to make this work, many organizations have to create separate policies for each tenant. This often creates an explosion of tenant policies which, in turn, can push the account limits ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Néstor Gándara. By Néstor Gándara, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Piyush Agarwal, AWS Ambassador at VirtusaVirtusa recently assisted a provider-sponsored health insurance company that insures 1.2 million members in New York City and downstate New York in migrating their Pega 7.2 environment on Pega Cloud to Pega 8.4 on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Over the past several years, Virtusa’s client has been leveraging Pega’s cloud services to develop and operate production Pega applications. With the continued development and growth of the applications and data in a large single environment, it became overly difficult ... Read More