Category: MongoDB

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; Database technology has changed and evolved over the years. Relational, NoSQL, hierarchical…it can start to get confusing. Storing data doesn’t have to be a headache. If you’re trying to pick the right database for your organization, here’s a guide to the properties and uses of each type.What are the types of databases?1. Relational databases Relational databases have been around since the 1970s. The name comes from the way that data is stored in multiple, related tables. Within the tables, data is stored in rows and columns. The relational database management system (RDBMS) is the program that ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: Wight Goforth; Any organization that is transitioning to public cloud and using one or more cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), should immediately consider shifting toward a new model of security focused on continuous control and enforcement of secure configuration of cloud services. Importantly, this cannot be a one-time event, but must be monitored and enforced continuously, as the software-defined nature of cloud leads to frequent changes. Misconfiguring a cloud database, storage asset, or search engine can have massive consequences, especially if these items contain proprietary data ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; We’re proud to announce a new set of database services to help companies modernize their database and data analytics platforms on the cloud. Data transformation is a key component of any cloud project, and Logicworks is now ready to help any company upgrade their legacy database platform or build a cloud-native data solution. Our new capabilities include:  Database Platform Migration: Move your legacy or end-of-life database to AWS or Azure so you can take full advantage of the scalability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness of the cloud. Source platforms include: Oracle Databases, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: Jamie Gale; ZDNet recently reported that hackers held approximately 23,000 unsecured MongoDB databases ransom, wiping the data and demanding the bitcoin equivalent of 140 USD in exchange for safely restoring access. Incredibly, the 23,000 breached databases, which account for an astounding 47 percent of all MongoDB databases accessible online, were hacked because they lacked basic password protection. The hackers also threatened to report the negligent parties to local GDPR enforcement authorities, adding another layer of concern to the victims. While paying 0.015 bitcoin to a hacker in exchange for your data may not seem like a major ... Read More

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