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10 essential tips for bolstering cloud security in your business

CIO

Privileged Access Management (PAM) System and database administrators are likely targets for cyber-attacks as they have access to sensitive data and applications. Secure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is widely used to access cloud resources from remote locations.

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Cloud Migration Will Disrupt Ops as You Know It

Xebia

IT Operations Tasks Made Obsolete by the Cloud Once you have executed a redesign or re-platformstrategy, the following tasks will have disappeared from the IT operations task list: Hardware-related tasks: Since the entire data center in the Cloud is software-defined, there are no more hardware-related tasks to perform.

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OtterTune, which taps AI to optimize databases, raises $12M

TechCrunch

In conversations with executives, he was surprised at how much the company was paying administrators to do what he considered to be basic maintenance database tasks. “The database administrators were almost boasting about how much they were getting paid to do trivial things to keep their databases running,” Pavlo said.

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Which Is Best for Your MariaDB Cloud Migration: Azure or an Azure VM?

Datavail

The pricing model for this service is pay-as-you-go, and you’re able to scale your resources easily based on your current demand. You have high availability databases right from the start of your service, and you never need to worry about applying patches, restoring databases in the event of an outage, or fixing failed hardware.

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Building a SQL Server Virtual Lab in Windows: Virtualization Concepts

Datavail

Just like pilots have flight simulators, SQL Server Database Administrators (SQL DBAs) can build their test network environments to simulate the production environment for SQL Server High Availability and Disaster (HADR) testing purposes. Software and hardware requirements. These machines are known as flight simulators.

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Upgrade Journey: The Path from CDH to CDP Private Cloud

Cloudera

The customer had a few primary reasons for the upgrade: Utilize existing hardware resources and avoid the expensive resources, time and cost of adding new hardware for migrations. . The customer team included several Hadoop administrators, a program manager, a database administrator and an enterprise architect.

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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. Provisioning is about setting up IT resources and making them available to users.