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vForum Online Spring 2018 Wednesday, April 18th, 2018 9:00 am – 2:30 pm PDT 12:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT View: Agenda-at-a-Glance vForum Online is a must-attend event for IT professionals who are driving their digital transformation and building a hyper-converged IT infrastructure that: Modernizes Data Centers Integrates Public Clouds Transforms Networks and Security Secures […]
If you build (or want to build) data-driven web and mobile apps and need real-time updates and the ability to work offline, you should take a look at AWS AppSync. Announced in preview form at AWS re:Invent 2017 and described in depth here, AWS AppSync is designed for use in iOS, Android, JavaScript, and React […]
A free, open-source platform, OpenStack was created with the ambitious target of giving infrastructure-as-a-service to consumers in a rapid, self-serve manner. It is now one of the most popular open-source cloud projects with the likes of eBay and Walmart relying on its framework. Speed and simplicity were essential throughout OpenStack’s development, with users now easily […]
If you are responsible for meeting strict Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) for your business, snapshots are the technology you need. Snapshots are appealing because you can make quick, point-in-time copies of your data, with little-to-no impact on production storage. This allows you to take multiple snapshots throughout the day. One of the key players in […]
Machine learning is one of the most innovative and interesting fields of modern science around today. Something that you probably associate with things such as Watson, Deep Blue, and even the infamous Netflix algorithm. However, as sparkly as it is, machine learning isn’t exactly something totally new. In fact, the concept and science of machine […]
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 […]