MapR Technologies Inc. is one of the top “big three” vendors for Hadoop-based commercial distributions. They have added new offerings to the Big Data Test Drive program at Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS). AWS test drives are a technology partnership initiative that provides preconfigured, preintegrated solutions to help enterprises explore Big Data analytics. The solutions…
Month: October 2022
AWS Big Data Service Now Supports More Apache Tools
Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), announced that its Big Data processing service now supports additional tools from the open-source Apache ecosystem. According to a recent AWS blog post, the Amazon Elastic MapReduce Web service now supports Apache Tez. This is described by AWS as a dataflow-driven data processing task orchestration. Apache Phoenix provides “fast SQL…
AWS Big Data News: DynamoDB NoSQL Service, Expanded Schema Conversion Tool. Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), a major player within the Big Data space, announced recently a new auto scaling feature and expanded Schema Conversion Tool. Let’s take a look at them both:
Amazon DynamoDB Auto Scaling This fully managed cloud database is described as a “fast, flexible NoSQL service for any size” and provides both key-value and document store models with consistent, single-digit millisecond latency regardless of its scale. This service was redesigned to make it easier for users to manage the resources they use. Previously, this…
AWS offers a discount on upfront reserved instances payments
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc. has offered two new payment options to its EC2 Reserved Instances users this week. Reserved Instances was launched in 2009 to allow users to lock down guaranteed EC2 capacities for one- or three year periods. Users had to pay upfront when Reserved Instances first launched. Prices start at $325 for…
AWS beefs up developer training
Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), has enhanced its three-day developer training classes. This includes support for more programming languages and coverage of AWS services that are dev-oriented. AWS executive Mike Stroh wrote in a blog post Friday, “Whether you’re moving apps to AWS or creating cloud-specific applications, this course can teach you how to use…
AWS boosts Database Services Amidst the constant stream of cloud service and product announcements from Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), there have been a few database-related items that have come to light recently. A wide range of data-related offerings are available in AWS cloud. These include relational offerings like Amazon Aurora (MySQL and PostgreSQL), Amazon RDS [MySQL and PostgreSQL], MariaDB, Oracle and SQL Server (data warehouse), key-value Amazon DynamoDB(NoSQL), and document-oriented Amazon DocumentDB with MongoDB compatibility). Here’s a summary of the most recent data-related news published in the last week.
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), is now compliant with SOC 1, 2 and 3. These reports are often used by diverse industries such as technology, banking, and financial services and used for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance (SOX). Learn more. Amazon RDS for SQL Server increases the database limit per instance up to 100: “Existing databases can support…
How do you plan for failures in contingency planning?
Despite every effort to avoid downtime and avoid any compromises, sometimes failures can still occur. Robert Mueller, ex-FBI Director, stated that only two types are possible: those that have been hacked and those that will be. “Even that is merging in to one category: those who have been hacked again. What is your organization doing…
Conflict 101 [Book Review]
(This post contains affiliate hyperlinks. Please read my full disclosure. Everyone has to deal with workplace conflict. Conflict 101: A Manager’s Guide to Resolving Problems so Everyone Can Get Back to Work is the guide you need for addressing conflicts on projects. Susan H. Shearouse covers everything, from why we are bad at managing conflict…
Configuring and Deploying a Private cloud with System Center 2012
CBT Nuggets introduces “Configuring and Deploying Private Clouds with System Center 2012” as a new series. Greg Shields, a globally-recognized cloud expert and virtualization expert, explains what the “Create Cloud” button in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 does and what you need before you click it. Learn how to make your Microsoft Private Cloud…