Category: IDERA

Feed: IDERA Community Blog; Author: Zoe Bell; Applications for the 2017 IDERA ACEs are now open! The search has begun for the 2017 IDERA ACEs. Do you have a passion in helping the community and sharing your knowledge? Then apply today! We help the IDERA ACEs pursue their passion by sponsoring travel to select events, offering guidance for soft skill training, and providing access to our extensive portfolio of database lifecycle management products. This program encourages communication, facilitates participation, and enables education within the community. WHO: Industry experts (such as database administrators, data modelers/architects, database developers, or consultants) who want ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Severalnines; MySQL is easy to install and use, it has always been popular with developers and system administrators. On the other hand, deploying a production-ready MySQL environment for a business-critical enterprise workload is a different story. It can be a bit of a challenge, and requires in-depth knowledge of the database. In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the steps which have to be taken before we can consider our MySQL deployment production-ready. High Availability If you belong to those lucky ones who can accept hours of downtime, you can stop reading here and skip ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Mike Boyarski. Data growth and diversity has put new pressures on traditional data warehouses, resulting in a slew of new technology evaluations. The data warehouse landscape offers a variety of options, including popular cloud solutions that offer pay-as-you-go pricing in an easy-to-use and scale package. Here are some considerations to help you select the best cloud data warehouse. A cloud data warehouse support numerous use cases for a variety of business needs. Here are some common use cases along with the notable capabilities required for each.   Ad Hoc Analysis Ad hoc analysis provides guided or ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. on 29 JUN 2017 | in Education, government | Permalink |  Share Cloud procurement presents an opportunity to reevaluate existing procurement strategies so you can create a flexible acquisition process that enables your public sector organization to extract the full benefits of the cloud. Download the whitepaper for “10 Considerations for a Cloud Procurement” for the public sector. Are you ready to move to the cloud but looking for practical guidance? The following are key components to help streamline your cloud procurement strategy. Take a look at the tips below and ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Hadoop. Author: Jeff Bean. Just today we heard another question about integrating Apache Hadoop with Business Intelligence tools. This is one of the most common questions we receive from enterprises adopting or evaluating Hadoop. In the early stages of their projects, customers are generally not sure how to connect their BI tools to Hadoop, and when it makes sense to do so. As I wrote in BI Considerations and Hadoop Part 1, Cloudera encourages you to use your existing infrastructure wherever possible, and this includes your investments in Business Intelligence. BI tools traditionally were designed ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Cloud. Author: Justin Kestelyn. The benchmark testing results detailed below can help you make an informed decision about AWS storage options for Impala. In a recent post, you learned how Impala 2.6 on S3 delivers cloud-native features unmatched by other analytic databases in the cloud. With support to read/write data from Amazon S3, Impala provides cloud capabilities such as direct querying of data from S3, elastic scaling of compute, and seamless data portability and flexibility not found on other cloud-based analytic databases, such as Amazon Redshift. Although S3 provides simple storage at relatively affordable prices, it’s important ... Read More

Author: . The following is an excerpt from a new eBook published by Tech-Clarity, “Cloud Considerations for the PLM ISV.” In my last post, I highlighted the business ramifications and high-level technical considerations for PLM vendors moving to a cloud model. In this post, I’ll talk about some of the deeper considerations - specifically around the database and architecture - that impact success. Technical Considerations Delivering PLM on the cloud obviously brings about technical issues. PLM vendors have had to deal with some unique challenges in their traditional software to support scalability and distributed solutions. Delivering the full stack in ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Cloudera Manager. Author: Justin Kestelyn. Learn how replication functionality for Apache Hive metadata and consistency benefits from automated HDFS snapshots benefit production environments. A robust backup solution that is both correct and efficient is necessary for all production data management systems. Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) is a Cloudera Manager feature in Cloudera Enterprise that allows for consistent, efficient replication and version management of data in CDH clusters. Cloudera Enterprise BDR can be used for creating efficient incremental backups of HDFS and Hive data from multiple clusters, within or between data centers and across wide ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Sireesha Allaparthi. Moving your legacy application to SaaS is not easy as you think; you have to take various aspects into consideration. And, with the proliferation of cloud solutions, making choices has become more difficult. Making wrong choices would leave an adverse affect on performance and reputation and makes you take a downturn in the competitive marketplace. So, the following are a few things you should consider when evaluating your cloud solutions: Public and private cloud services Firstly, you have to consider what level of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is required for you. For ... Read More

Feed: SQL Server Release Services. Author: Parikshit Savjani. With cloud first strategy, the SQL Product Team has observed great success and adoption of SQL Server 2016 compared to any previous releases. Today, we are even more excited and pleased to announce the availability of SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (SP1). With SQL Server 2016 SP1, we are making key improvements allowing a consistent programmability surface area for developers and organizations across SQL Server editions. This will enable you to build advanced applications that scale across editions and cloud as you grow. Developers and application partners can now build to ... Read More