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Note – All sessions are free and in Pacific Time. April & early May — 2018 Schedule Compute April 30, 2018 | 01:00 PM – 01:45 PM PT – Best Practices for Running Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with Amazon EMR (300) – Learn about the best practices for scaling big data workloads as well as […]
If you have logged into MongoDB Atlas recently – and you should, the entry-level tier is free! – you may have noticed a strange new syntax on 3.6 connection strings. MongoDB Seed Lists What is this mongodb+srv syntax? Well, in MongoDB 3.6 we introduced the concept of a seed list that is specified using DNS […]
At the back end of 2017, Veeam released the Universal Storage API with Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 update 3. This framework offers built-in integrations with storage systems to help decrease impact on the production environment and significantly improve RPOs. Today Veeam announces Pure Storage as the next storage vendor to arrive onto this integration framework. […]
As enterprises continue to invest heavily in public cloud technology, experts now agree that the market is entering a second wave, as we take a look at public cloud security threats. Cloud uptake will accelerate faster in 2018, according to a report by Forrester. ‘Enterprises with big budgets, data centres, and complex applications are now […]
The open source Git project just released Git 2.17.0, with features and bugfixes from over 60 contributors. Here’s our look at some of the most interesting new features from the last few versions of Git. Coloring moved code When you’re reviewing a commit that moves some code, its diff will show a big chunk of […]
Matt Wood, AWS’s general manager for deep learning and AI. (AWS photo) Developers using Amazon SageMaker to build machine-learning applications will now be able to take advantage of new computing resources and experiment with their models on local machines, Amazon Web Services announced Wednesday at the AWS Summit in San Francisco. SageMaker, introduced last year […]
Today AWS is launching a new feature for AWS Certificate Manager (ACM), Private Certificate Authority (CA). This new service allows ACM to act as a private subordinate CA. Previously, if a customer wanted to use private certificates, they needed specialized infrastructure and security expertise that could be expensive to maintain and operate. ACM Private CA […]
Empowering customer service agents with new technology is the key to great customer interactions, leading to an increase in repeat business. This approach is often overlooked when compared with other customer service pain points, such as increasing customer satisfaction or decreasing operation costs, but in reality, these objectives are all interlocked. Agent attrition impacts businesses […]
By now, it’s no secret that the IT Resilience Platform that Zerto has come to be known as offers complete flexibility when it comes to multi-cloud agility. This agility allows businesses to accelerate their digital transformation and truly take advantage of what the public cloud platform offers – ensuring even more freedom to choose your […]
Previously, we’ve gone over design, performance and backup target considerations. Let’s continue our discussion with thoughts on network and restore targets. Network consideration The next thing to look at is the network. Ideally, you’ll have 10 Gbps or better in your backup targets (I normally leverage dual 10 Gbps). On the backup source, you can […]