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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

CTOvision

By Bob Gourley Note: we have been tracking Cloudant in our special reporting on Analytical Tools , Big Data Capabilities , and Cloud Computing. a privately held database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider that enables developers to easily and quickly create next generation mobile and web apps. . . – bg.

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Better Together: Why Datavail is Partnering with Continuent for MySQL and MariaDB Database Solutions

Datavail

With the volume and velocity of big data increasing every year, however, in-house IT teams may not be able to achieve these ideals on their own. By spinning up database clusters in the cloud or in private data centers, users can guarantee the availability of their data, even in the event of a system failure.

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Operational Database Security – Part 1

Cloudera

Combined with other AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Audits) controls available for our platform, in a CDP Data Center deployment our OpDB can fulfill many of the requirements of PCI, HIPAA, ISO 27001 and more. Database Administrator Authorization. For more information, see Operational Services.

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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background

Altexsoft

Companies often take infrastructure engineers for sysadmins, network designers, or database administrators. The hardware layer includes everything you can touch — servers, data centers, storage devices, and personal computers. Infrastructure is quite a broad and abstract concept. How is it possible?

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Are You Agile Enough for Polyglot Programming?

CTOvision

It was spread across 3 data centers and 2000 nodes; it consumed 180 TB of data and supported 10,000 requests per second. Your database administrators, who know SQL, will feel right at home with JSON, and pick it up in a heartbeat. An interesting case study in Polyglot Programming is the Obama re-election campaign.

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Q&A with Greg Rahn – The changing Data Warehouse market

Cloudera

So, that’s kind of how I got introduced to databases and SQL systems. I then ended up working for a travel company and did database administration there. After having rebuilt their data warehouse, I decided to take a little bit more of a pointed role, and I joined Oracle as a database performance engineer.

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Comparing Database Management Systems: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL Server, MongoDB, Elasticsearch and others

Altexsoft

Being a part of the consistent Microsoft ecosystem, MSSQL can be integrated with Microsoft cloud, Azure SQL Database or SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines. The solutions allow shifting the database administration to the cloud if your business software database becomes really overwhelming and hard to administer.