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Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Robert Cull; Pretty much everyone is familiar with some form of cloud storage. It lets you easily store and access your files over the internet. Aside from just storing your content online, many providers also let you sync content directly between your desktop and cloud storage service. This lets you keep exact copies of your files both in the cloud and on your device. Although this handy feature can boost your productivity, unfortunately not all cloud storage providers offer the best security or sync features. Finding the best cloud storage with sync can be daunting, so we’ve ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Ben Stockton; The internet has changed the way that we work as individuals, making it far easier for us to collaborate on projects as a team. Cloud storage is a powerful way for a group of like-minded people to access the same files, whether they’re for business or personal use. Many cloud storage services are designed with individual users in mind, but that doesn’t make them a good solution for multiple users. Although some providers allow you to share files with other users, they’re not always the perfect solution for collaboration. To help you find the best ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Jon Gitlin; As an employee, you likely make a variety of requests over time. Planning a vacation? You’ll need to request PTO from your employer. Purchasing something that’s relevant to your work? You can submit it as an expense. Negotiating a deal that requires internal sign off? You’ll need to ask the appropriate colleague to review and approve it. In each of these cases—among many others—you’ll need to establish a well-run approval workflow process. This type of process should allow an employee to submit a request with ease, while allowing the appropriate colleagues to ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Platform teams deliver on DevOpsOur 2020 State of DevOps Report focuses on two areas that can help organizations scale their DevOps initiative: a platform approach to software delivery and applying DevOps principles to change management. We found that internal platform usage is widespread — 63 percent of respondents report their company has at least one self-service internal platform. The teams that build, govern, and maintain these platforms are dedicated, cross-functional subject matter experts and they are called — to no one’s surprise — platform teams.Our new platform team blog series features people who ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Ashley Lozito; Data migration — the process of selecting, preparing, extracting, and transforming data, then permanently transferring it from one computer storage system to another — is an important step in breaking down silos and giving companies a single view of data.To be truly data-led in every decision, enterprises need all data available to make decisions. But many businesses still lag behind. In a recent IDG survey, 40 percent of data professionals cited lack of visibility and control of data silos as a challenge when collaborating with business users.Data portability tops the list of platform requirements needed ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Samson Max; The Android TV box has access to a wider variety of entertainment services than a regular TV. However, since it uses the internet to unlock these services, it’s vulnerable to the same cyber threats as your other Android devices. Because of this, you have to install the best VPN for Android TV box to enjoy your favorite shows securely. Finding a VPN for your Android TV box can be a challenge. You have to consider many factors, such as features, usability and price to find a virtual private network that best meets your needs. We ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Cloud storage has been at the core of business for years, serving as a way for smaller teams to share and collaborate in the office and around the globe. The best cloud storage for teams makes sharing and collaborating easy, and in this guide, we’re going to count down our top five picks.  Key Takeaways: Each of the services below are built to make working with your team easy, from Huddle’s real-time document management tools to pCloud’s dense user control. Out of all our picks, though, Egnyte Connect stands out. Although other services may beat ... Read More

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. I sometimes get asked from customers if they should use a star schema or should they use one large single table/flatfile for their dataset in Power BI. The answer is almost always star schema, and Patrick LeBlanc does a great job explaining what a star schema is and why star schemas are so important for Power BI in his video Why Power BI loves a Star Schema. I wanted to list out his four reasons: Usability: If you have just one large table with all the data, when creating a report it is ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . The growing numbers of European businesses leveraging hybrid multicloud environments are often watching costs spiral beyond expectations and sooner rather than later must face the reality that they are spawning new types of data silos.During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, organisations were focused foremost on enabling remote workers and quickly spinning up services in the cloud to ensure continuing operations. Now, planning for a post-pandemic world, they are struggling to come to grips with the inefficiencies that can accompany use of multiple public clouds.Public cloud providers tend to have specific strengths for particular workloads, ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Melanie Purkis; Eyeing migrating to cloud computing for your business and wondering what the trends around cloud services, platforms, and infrastructure are for 2021? If you’ve been watching the IT Industry over the past few years, you’ve witnessed an unprecedented growth in public cloud services and cloud usage across all business sectors. With that, there are now lots of new market opportunities and challenges — all of which will have a significant effect on long-term strategies and roadmaps of nearly every company. What can you expect to see from the most popular cloud computing trends in ... Read More