Category: MongoDB

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; Matillion Data Loader is now available to download! This new Matillion product is designed for all data professionals regardless of coding capabilities. Like Matillion ETL, Matillion Data Loader is built to leverage the simplicity, speed, and scale of the cloud. Of course, with new products come new questions, and with that in mind, here a sampling of questions we’ve received. Learn more about Matillion Data Loader.  I’m not a super technical user. Will there be tooltips?  The good news is, it’s fairly simple to build a pipeline in Matillion Data Loader. But we will also ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; If you are a Google Analytics 360 (GA 360) user, you can definitely enjoy the conveniences of having everything under the Google umbrella, including Google Big Query. With GA360, you can export sessions and bring data from a Google Analytics 360 account into Google BigQuery, and then use a SQL-like syntax to query all of that analytics data.  But often, you need to get that GA 360 data into a different cloud data warehouse (CDW) if you have a different primary cloud data warehouse, or if you need that analytics data for an application running ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: Jackie Fekeci; More Than 33 Billion Records Exposed in Last Two Years ARLINGTON, Va.–Feb. 19, 2020–DivvyCloud, the leading provider of security and compliance automation for cloud and container environments, today released its 2020 Cloud Misconfigurations Report, which substantiates the growing trend of data breaches caused by cloud misconfigurations and quantifies their impact on companies and consumers around the world. DivvyCloud research found that nearly 33.4 billion records were exposed in breaches due to cloud misconfigurations in 2018 and 2019, amounting to nearly $5 trillion in costs to enterprises globally. Year over year from 2018 to 2019, the number ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Erik’s extensive marketing experience in the technology industry, along with his strong leadership values, make him an outstanding chief marketing officer to build upon the great success Puppet has had to date and lead us forward in our next chapter of growth. Erik comes to us from VMware where he was senior vice president of Cloud, Product and Integrated Marketing. In this role, he led VMware’s cloud marketing initiatives, developing integrated marketing campaigns and product marketing for VMware’s solutions. Earlier at VMware, Erik led the marketing efforts for VMware's End-user Computing division where ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Happy New Year! (Okay, it's February — we're a little behind.) It's time for another edition of our regular What’s new in Puppet modules feature. Due to the lull that accompanies the holidays, we decided to roll up December and January into one post. We’re looking forward to another great year of module development, but let’s start by looking back on what we’ve done in the last few months.As of 1 February, we have 4,743 modules on the Forge.puppetlabs-mount_providers-1.0.0Provides the mounttab and mountpoint resource types.2017-01-27 - Release 1.0.0Bug fixesSets ensure on the mountpoint ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; This post, written by LogicMonitor’s Director of Tech Ops, Jesse Aukeman, originally appeared on HighScalability.com on February 19, 2013. It has been reprinted with permission on our blog. If you are like us, you are running some type of linux configuration management tool. The value of centralized configuration and deployment is well known and hard to overstate. Puppet is our tool of choice. It is powerful and works well for us, except when things don’t go as planned. Failures of puppet can be innocuous and cosmetic, or they can cause production issues, for ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; A long time ago (well, June of this year) the Puppet Forge was running without a leader. In my role as community manager, I saw the Forge as having this awesome potential to be the resource for user-generated content surrounding the Puppet community. I knew it was getting more attention, but that was mostly anecdotal. My next step was to find some data that could tell a good story. Puppet Modules are often the first way people learn and start using Puppet. We’ve had our Puppet Forge for a while, but I didn’t ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Purpose Razor Provisioning Software Module puppetlabs/razor Puppet Version 2.7+ Platforms Ubuntu Precise Razor is next generation provisioning software that handles bare metal hardware and virtual server provisioning with inventory discovery and tagging, rule-based policy management, and extensible broker plugin integration. The usage of Razor for provisioning is discussed briefly in this blog, and additional information is available on a separate post by Nick Weaver, one of authors of the Razor project. Broker handoffs will be discussed in a follow up article. Razor is currently released as a beta for preview, so there are ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Indeed uses puppet in testing, integration, staging and production environments. Puppet has enabled Indeed Operations to scale to hundreds of servers across multiple datacenters with differing infrastructure while maintaining configuration consistency in testing, integration, staging and production environments. Our new Vice President of Marketing, Scott Johnston, was recently poking around on Indeed.com and discovered the trend feature. He did a quick search: In an email to all, our CEO proclaimed: "Pretty sweet." What can only be described as a the virtual equivalent of the Ninja Turtles signature jumping group high five quickly followed ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: Anna Mulamba; Someone forgot to close the figurative “door.” A third-party vendor affiliated with CenturyLink misconfigured a MongoDB database leaving it open and accessible to the public for about 10 months.  CenturyLink, a Fortune 500 technology company, was alerted by a security research firm that approximately 2.8 million records were left unprotected and vulnerable to potential misuse. Included in the affected database were API logs containing multiple pieces of personally identifiable information (PII), including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses, along with account-specific information. While CenturyLink has stated that they found no evidence that its records ... Read More