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Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Manikandan Srinivasan, Sr. Director, Products. Our mission at DataStax is to deliver strong value to our customers by providing advanced tools and solutions to manage and monitor DataStax Enterprise (DSE) with ease. With complex applications deployed across different environments, sending DSE diagnostic metrics to a centralized, unified, scalable, and flexible monitoring solution that provides a fast and accurate problem resolution is critical to helping administrators troubleshoot problems. Furthermore, to troubleshoot production slowdowns, it is vital to be able to correlate application and network activity with the impact on the database from a ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Kavya Sinha. V3 is the latest upgrade for Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS). Azure Backup Server can now be installed on Windows Server 2019 with SQL 2017 as its database. MABS V3 brings key enhancements in the areas of storage and security. Security Preventing critical volumes’ data loss While selecting volumes for storage that should be used for backups by MABS, user may accidently select the wrong volume. Selecting volumes containing critical data may result in unexpected data loss. With MABS V3 you can prevent this by disabling these volumes to be available for backup ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Gaurav Malhotra. Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that enables you to run code on-demand without having to explicitly provision or manage infrastructure. Using Azure Functions, you can run a script or piece of code in response to a variety of events. Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a managed data integration service in Azure that allows you to iteratively build, orchestrate, and monitor your Extract Transform Load (ETL) workflows. Azure Functions is now integrated with ADF, allowing you to run an Azure function as a step in your data factory pipelines. Simply drag an ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Mine Tokus. We are excited to share that a new, automated way to configure high availability solutions for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) is now available using our SQL VM resource provider. To get started today, follow the instructions in the table below. High availability architectures are designed to continue to function even when there are database, hardware, or network failures. Azure Virtual Machine instances using Premium Storage for all operating system disks and data disks offers 99.9 percent availability. This SLA is impacted by three scenarios – unplanned hardware maintenance, unexpected downtime, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Koichi Hirao. For over three years, we have helped customers find devices that work with Azure IoT technology through the Azure Certified for IoT program and the Azure IoT device catalog. In that time, our ecosystem has grown to one of the largest in the industry with more than 1,000 devices and starter kits from over 250 partners. Today, we are taking steps to further to grow our device partner ecosystem with the release of Azure IoT certification service (AICS), a new web-based test automation workflow, which is now generally available. AICS will significantly reduce ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Microsoft Azure. This blog post was authored by Peter Cooper, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft IoT. It’s 1882. Thomas Edison has just surpassed his breakthrough invention—the first incandescent lightbulb—by collaborating with J.P. Morgan to open the first industrial-scale power station in the United States. Flash forward to today: Power generation, distribution, transmission, and consumption now drive business and modern life around the globe. The industry operates on a vast scale, with a complex web of relationships and technology that enables instant, reliable delivery throughout much of the developed world. And that grid that got its start ... Read More

Feed: Databasejournal.com - Feature Database Articles. Author: . Occasionally a join using primary key columns in a query can be eliminated because of the data involved. If Oracle determines that all of the 'required' data is available in a single table, then the optimizer will rewrite the query to eliminate the 'unnecessary' join. Oracle has been doing this for years with the limitation that the primary keys involved were single-column keys. In versions 12.2 and later, multi-column primary keys can be used, however there are cases where the join elimination isn't complete depending upon table order in the FROM clause ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Christine Alford. 1 Week CIO Assessment: CrucialLogics will perform an assessment to determine the current IT landscape and generate an executive deliverable with action plans and next steps for the IT road map on your Microsoft platform (Office 365, Azure, Dynamics). Accelerating Digital Transformation Assessment: In this one-day workshop, sopra steria will assess your technology and application transformational journey in line with your business strategy, then provide a report advising either rebuilding, rehosting, or refactoring your apps. Azure & Microsoft 365 Security:2-Wk Implementation: Protect your business data, operational infrastructure, and business identity against cyber threats ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Xuedong Huang. Applying the latest in deep learning innovation, Speech Service, part of Azure Cognitive Services now offers a neural network-powered text-to-speech capability. Access the preview available today. Neural Text-to-Speech makes the voices of your apps nearly indistinguishable from the voices of people. Use it to make conversations with chatbots and virtual assistants more natural and engaging, to convert digital texts such as e-books into audiobooks and to upgrade in-car navigation systems with natural voice experiences and more. This release includes significant enhancements since we first revealed Neural Text-to-Speech at Ignite earlier this year. Enhanced ... Read More

Feed: CDH – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Tom Wheeler. For a user-facing system like Apache Impala, bad performance and downtime can have serious negative impacts on your business. Given the complexity of the system and all the moving parts, troubleshooting can be time-consuming and overwhelming. In this blog post series, we are going to show how the charts and metrics on Cloudera Manager (CM) can help troubleshoot Impala performance issues. They can also help to monitor the system to predict and prevent future outages. CM provides a comprehensive suite of time-series and pre-aggregated metrics and charts at varying levels of ... Read More