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Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: David Dennis. To show you the latest capabilities of using Linux and Azure—and share some exciting announcements—we will be hosting Azure Open Source Day on Tuesday, February 15, 2022, from 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM Pacific Time. Push your apps and data to the next level by using Azure, open source, and Linux together. Join this free digital event to learn how to natively run your open-source workloads on Azure, expand their capabilities, and innovate in new ways using Azure services. At this event, you’ll learn how Microsoft is committed to open source and works ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Chances are, if your kid likes computer games, they’re one of Roblox’s 43 million daily users, or have at least checked the game out. Of course, as with anything online, this may have made you wonder: Is Roblox safe for kids? In this guide, we’ll give our take and explain what to look out for when your child regularly plays it. Key Takeaways: Roblox is a massive gaming platform where kids can make and play games.Roblox shares revenue with players, but only under punitive conditions.Roblox’s moderation functions also leave much to be desired, leaving children ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: Shaun Ahmadian. Posted in Technical | January 25, 2022 6 min read The start of a new year is a perfect time to reflect on what was accomplished and look forward, re-evaluate what we can do better.  Change, although difficult at first, can also be very rewarding. That’s why I was excited to see similar sentiments shared at Thoughtspot beyond.2021 to move beyond the traditional dashboards of the past. As roles within organizations evolve (as seen by the growth of citizen scientists and analytics engineers) and as data needs change (think schema changes and real-time), we ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Dan Ginn; You’ll seldom see GoodSync in a roundup of the best cloud storage providers. It has yet to go mainstream — and if it doesn’t improve its general usability, it likely never will. However, it does have some decent features, all of which we’ll explore in this GoodSync review. Key Takeaways: GoodSync offers block-level sync and plenty of automation for easy backups.Users can use GoodSync to share and sync files between different storage services.GoodSync’s pricing is inconsistent and ranges from affordable to far too expensive. The design of all GoodSync apps is dated and doesn’t offer a ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Jon Gitlin; Your order processing workflow can take various forms, depending on the types of products you offer, the maturity of your business, the apps you use, the locations of your clients, and so on. Despite the multitude of factors that shape the process, automation can benefit every organization’s approach.  Using automation, your goods and services can be delivered faster; your invoices can be paid sooner; and your employees can spend less time on mundane, error-prone tasks.  We’ll cover a few of the ways you can automate the workflow, but before we do, let’s ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Alethea Toh. This blog post was co-authored by Anupam Vij, Principal PM Manager, and Syed Pasha, Principal Network Engineer, Azure Networking In the second half of 2021, the world experienced an unprecedented level of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) activity in both complexity and frequency. The gaming industry was perhaps the hardest hit, with DDoS attacks disrupting gameplay of Blizzard games1, Titanfall2, Escape from Tarkov3, Dead by Daylight4, and Final Fantasy 145 among many others. Voice over IP (VoIP) service providers such as Bandwidth.com6, VoIP Unlimited7, and VoIP.ms8 suffered outages following ransom DDoS attacks. In India, we ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Diana Gao. If you are running on-premises servers, chances are that you utilize a fraction of your overall server cores most of the time but are forced to over-provision to handle peak loads. Moving those workloads to the cloud can greatly reduce cost by “rightsizing” server capacity as needed. Rightsizing is one of the key levers you have for controlling costs and optimizing resources. By understanding cloud economics, and using what Azure provides, you can identify the smallest virtual server instances that support your requirements and realize immediate savings by eliminating unused capacity. Many industries ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Jon Gitlin; An organization’s net retention rate (NRR) is increasingly seen as their north star of success—and for good reason. It reveals the value your product provides; it demonstrates the quality of your success team; it underscores your position in the market; and it highlights the confidence in your product roadmap. Improving this critical business metric requires each of your customer-facing teams—from your sales reps to your customer success managers to your marketers—to receive timely and actionable insights based on product usage data. In other words, it requires leveraging product intelligence.  We’ll explain why ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Miranda Yeo; The Expert Series explores common automation challenges faced by businesses and offers perspectives from our in-house automation experts on how to approach these issues. In the first installment, Ken Ng, our Director of Solutions Consulting (APJ), explains how companies can successfully scale IT operations with automation. As the Director of Solutions Consulting at Workato, one of my key responsibilities is supporting business and IT teams with their day-to-day automation and integration challenges. This involves working alongside IT teams as they adapt to the new demands of a post-pandemic work environment, preparing their ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Blog. Author: Arielle Diamond. Posted in Business | January 24, 2022 3 min read Many organizations initiate data projects because they want to increase revenue, but a select few tackle projects that truly transform society.  This year, Cloudera is recognizing three organizations as finalists in the Data for Good category of its annual Data Impact Awards: Union Bank of the Philippines, Keck Medicine of USC, and the National Bone Marrow Donor Program. In order to be considered for the Data for Good category, submissions must have addressed some of the most challenging issues affecting society and the planet, ... Read More