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Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Simon Ball. With the increases in data volumes, explosion in number of devices and sophistication of attackers, current cybersecurity tools are challenged processing the millions of events and providing insights fast enough. Cybersecurity teams spend hours analyzing threat events by going from one tool to the next.  We are pleased to announce the general availability of Hortonworks Cybersecurity Package (HCP) that provides a single pane of glass view into threat events across your entire landscape. The package offers full Hortonworks support for the Apache Metron project, which is an open source cyber security platform ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. At a live event today, Oracle Executive Chairman of the Board and CTO Larry Ellison announced new programs that lower costs by delivering increased automation and flexibility, and enable customers to get more value from their existing Oracle software investments. The new Oracle Cloud programs include Bring Your Own License to PaaS and Universal Credits. “We are completely transforming the way all companies buy and use cloud by providing flexibility and choice,” said Ellison. “Today, we combined the lowest prices with the highest performance and more automation to deliver a lower total cost of ownership ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Bhanu Prakash. Azure HDInsight is the only fully-managed cloud Hadoop & Spark offering that gives you optimized open-source analytic clusters for Spark, Hive, MapReduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka, and Microsoft R Server backed by a 99.9% SLA. You can deploy these big data technologies and ISV applications as managed clusters with enterprise-level security and monitoring. Given the broad scope of open source technologies on big data, we have received many requests for a detailed guide around HDInsight. This post outlines the key areas covered by the guide and also outlines some other options for learning on ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Corey Sanders. Just one month ago, we announced our increased investment in Terraform. It is amazing to see the progress we have already made together with HashiCorp and the Terraform community. In the last month alone, we added support for Azure Container Instances and Azure Event Grid to the Terraform provider. Today at HashiConf, I announced native Terraform support built-in to the Azure Cloud Shell. I also announced 8 verified Azure Modules as part of the Terraform Module Registry launch. Now is a great time for you to try Terraform on Azure. Terraform Module Registry ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Microsoft Azure. This blog post was authored by Erich Andersen, Corporate Vice President and Chief IP Counsel, Microsoft Intellectual Property.  Cloud-fueled digital transformation enables companies around the world to create new products and services, and engage with their customers at an unprecedented pace and scale. As they become digital businesses, companies need to address legal challenges which come with participating in the digital economy. Microsoft has developed strategies and assets to manage the intellectual property infringement risks that come with digital transformation. As our customers and partners become digital businesses, we are using our IP ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Matt Spillar. Lloyds Banking Group has been awarded this year’s data accolade for its Digital Analytics System Delivery (DASD) project. The goal was to build a data environment that could be used to derive predictive models for fraud detection. Lloyds Banking Group partnered with Hortonworks to create a data analytics platform and integrated a data science toolkit suite. The DASD platform infrastructure and application components enable improved ingestion, transformation and processing of data via distribution and storage of multiple sources. By partnering with Hortonworks, the Group was able to put into place an integrated ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Press blog. Author: Kim Spilker. Save 50%! Buy here. This offer expires on Sunday, September 24 at 7:00 AM GMT. Apply best practices for capturing, analyzing, and implementing software requirements through visual models—and deliver better results for your business. The authors—experts in eliciting and visualizing requirements—walk you through a simple but comprehensive language of visual models that has been used on hundreds of real-world, large-scale projects. Build your fluency with core concepts—and gain essential, scenario-based context and implementation advice—as you progress through each chapter. Learn more Terms & conditions Each week, on Sunday at 12:01 AM PST / ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: Nailah Bissoon. There are several ingestion techniques that can be used to add data to Big SQL and Hive. This blog will give an overview of the various flavors of adding files or appending to files already in HDFS and the commands to execute from either Hive or Big SQL. The technique of adding files directly to HDFS can offer one of the fastest ways to ingest data into Hadoop. Create External Hadoop Tables If files already reside on HDFS, Big SQL tables can be created with the location of these files specified. These tables are ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sam George. At the IoT Expo in Taipei, we were excited to announce our contribution of an open-source, cross-platform OPC UA Global Discovery Server (GDS) to the OPC Foundation. As we have done with our UA-.Net Standard cross-platform reference stack contribution, we will check it in to the OPC Foundations’ GitHub in the next couple of weeks. While an OPC UA GDS also manages OPC UA server configuration and handles centralized discovery, the greatest value of a GDS deployment is its certificate management capability and is described here. The most important aspect of the digital ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle today announced its eighth generation SPARC platform, delivering new levels of security capabilities, performance, and availability for critical customer workloads. Powered by the new SPARC M8 microprocessor, new Oracle systems and IaaS deliver a modern enterprise platform, including proven Software in Silicon with new v2 advancements, enabling customers to cost-effectively deploy their most critical business applications and scale-out application environments with extreme performance both on-premises and in Oracle Cloud. SPARC M8 processor-based systems, including the Oracle SuperCluster M8 engineered systems and SPARC T8 and M8 servers, are designed to seamlessly integrate with existing infrastructures ... Read More