It was always known that memory management was a challenge in the traditional systems where a few data points are in the play slowing down the process; this challenge becomes insurmountable when one deals with Big Data. MIT has recently announced a new programming language – MILK, which increases the speed of the common algorithms by 4x. This […]
Container technology is making rapid strides with some recent reports putting the adoption rate as high as 5x times in one year. But surprisingly not many are aware of Container technology and how exactly it is different from virtual machines. In the last decade, due to the rapid advancement in server technology the bare metal applications i.e. applications […]
Progressive Web Apps (PWA) are making a silent march onto users mobile with space constricting for native mobile apps. Even with a worldwide download of 102,062m apps in 2016, is mobile web making a comeback? Probably yes, if you believe this story by BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms briefing. Surprisingly, the foremost reason given by users for […]
Writing on the occasion of Amazon web services completing 10 years this March, Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, shared few important lessons Amazon learnt on its way to build a secure, scalable and reliable services. Amazon Web Services, a cloud services platform which today is the foundation of IT infrastructure of majority of business, be it a startup, […]
At the recently concluded Docker 16 event at Seattle WA, Microsoft, which in the last couple of years has been working closely with container technology leaders like Docker and Mesosphere, demonstrated new capabilities to enhance the running and managing of containers in cloud. Mark Russinovich – CTO, Microsoft Azure in a blog published shortly after demonstrating these […]
MySQL for Excel is an application plug-in enabling data analysts to very easily access and manipulate MySQL data within Microsoft Excel. It enables you to directly work with a MySQL database from within Microsoft Excel so you can easily do tasks such as: * Importing MySQL Data into Excel * Exporting Excel data directly into […]
Big Data and Machine Learning are the two buzz words in the industry today. The way companies in various sectors are adopting data science approach to improve their top line and bottom line numbers has been phenomenal. With the huge popularity that the data science has achieved in the recent past, it’s high time to […]
Do you have an old Windows laptop lying around that you refuse to touch because of how slow it runs Windows (Vista/7) today? If so, a new product called Neverware CloudReady may be able to help. CloudReady is FREE for Home use. Neverware’s CloudReady will help you repurpose that laptop into a Chromebook that your young child […]
SQL Server Integration Services offers a useful tool to analyze data before you bring it into your Data Warehouse. The Profile Task will store the analysis in an XML file, which you can view using the Data Profile Viewer. Before we review how to use the Profile Task, let’s take a look at the eight […]
Securing your data is very important and database encryption is just part of that landscape. Taking advantage SQL Server database encryption can be a daunting task but once it is configured it is also important to monitor it. This query is intended to allow the database administrator to gain information about the status of encryption on their systems. […]