5 ways to lower your IT Operations budget
Date: November 18 2020
Running a successful IT operation is always a tradeoff between delivering exceptional service and keeping everything within budget. Here are five ways to help IT leadership and CIOs lower their costs without reducing services. From lowering personnel costs to better managing contractors and consultants, to increasing the use of the cloud, to decommissioning software and adding automation,
The Growing Impact of AIOps in Financial Services
Date: November 11 2020
It has been called ‘The next big thing in IT operations’ and AIOps might prove to be that rare case of hyperbole actually meeting reality. Gartner coined the term ‘AIOps’ in 2017 and it is a combination of AI and operations or Ops. It refers to the way data within an IT environment is managed by an IT team, specifically with the utilization of machine learning and deep learning tools.
How Natural Language Processing (NLP) works
Date: November 04 2020
According to SAS, “Natural language processing (NLP) is a branch of artificial intelligence that helps computers understand, interpret and manipulate human language. NLP draws from many disciplines, including computer science and computational linguistics, in its pursuit to fill the gap between human communication and computer understanding.”
How Automation and AIOps Improves Network Performance
Date: October 29 2020
For Gartner, AIOps is “the application of machine learning (ML) and data science to IT operations problems. AIOps platforms combine big data and ML functionality to enhance and partially replace all primary IT operations functions, including availability and performance monitoring,
Five latest AIOps trends you should know for 2021
Date: October 21 2020
Today’s IT systems are incredibly complex, with distributed architectures, multi-cloud containers, microservices, apps, Big Data, in-memory systems, and real-time streaming. It is almost impossible to keep up with it all, but technologies like Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Business Process Management (BPM) have evolved from the early generation of IT Operations Management tools into AIOps,
5 Reasons to invest in AIOps
Date: October 08 2020
According to Gartner, AIOps is “the application of machine learning (ML) and data science to IT operations problems. AIOps platforms combine big data and ML functionality to enhance and partially replace all primary IT operations functions, including availability and performance monitoring, event correlation and analysis, and IT service management and automation.”
Top practices while migrating applications to the cloud
Date: October 01 2020
No one should be fooled into thinking a cloud migration is a simple process. It is anything but. However, as with most things in life, a well-structured and sensible plan that can remain flexible and adjusts with the facts on the ground, implemented by a team of well-trained staff can ensure a cloud migration will help businesses reach their true potential.
5 Benefits of AIOps Every IT Leader Should Know
Date: September 21 2020
Gartner claims that AIOps is “the application of machine learning (ML) and data science to IT operations problems. AIOps platforms combine big data and ML functionality to enhance and partially replace all primary IT operations functions, including availability and performance monitoring, event correlation and analysis, and IT service management and automation.”
Atlas Systems Expands Partnership With Snowflake
Date: September 10 2020
Snowflake is an analytic data warehouse provided as the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that runs completely on cloud infrastructure. Snowflake architecture allows storage and computes to scale independently and provides a lot of flexibility for companies to reduce operational costs.
Date: August 25 2020
AWS Lambdas are easy to design and develop in a short span of time. In order to manage the code and promote it through your deployment pipeline stages, there are several approaches and tools that can be used. We will discuss one approach to implement this.
Date: August 12 2020
MongoDB, the document-oriented NoSQL database company, has announced on July 30, 2020, that MongoDB 4.4 release is now Generally Available (GA) with new features and improvements intended to bolster the database’s ability to work reliably at scale.
Date: August 04 2020
While C# 9 is taking its shape before it gets officially gets into Developer's hands. Let’s take a glance at what are the new features in C#9. With every version of C#, we see the strive for greater clarity simplicity in common coding scenarios, and C# is no different from that. This time the focus is more on the terse and immutable representation of data shapes.
Atlas Systems Press Release – July 2020
Date: July 29 2020
Atlas Systems Inc. (Atlas) is pleased to announce that it has now made remote working for all its employees permanent through the end of 2020. The company's new resource strategy will emphasize a global approach that is unconstrained to a fixed location. The company is taking a cautious approach and allowing employees to work from home much longer than government guidelines recommend
Date: July 14 2020
This is the major release from Google, that spans from the entire Platform including the Framework, Angular Material, and the CLI. In this Release, applications are switched to Ivy Compiler by default during runtime and it helped to introduce a lot of improved ways of testing components
Event-Driven AWS Serverless Implementation
Date: July 01 2020
In the current Demanding world, we see there are 3 top Deep Learning Frameworks. However, still, there is a confusion on which one to use is it either Tensor Flow/Keras/Pytorch. So, let’s go little into details of each of these Frameworks in the below factors and see which one suits your needs and who stands at the top.
Tensorflow vs Keras vs Pytorch: Which Framework is the Best ?
Date: June 25 2020
In the current Demanding world, we see there are 3 top Deep Learning Frameworks. However, still, there is a confusion on which one to use is it either Tensor Flow/Keras/Pytorch. So, let’s go little into details of each of these Frameworks in the below factors and see which one suits your needs and who stands at the top.
PostgreSQL 13 Beta 1 Released for Testing
Date: June 18 2020
PostgreSQL 13 Beta 1 was released on 21 May 2020 and is available for download for evaluation. This is the first beta release of version 13 and PostgreSQL Project will release additional betas as required for testing, followed by one or more release candidates, until the final release in late 2020.
Date: June 10 2020
Atlas Systems and Couchbase are hosting a live webinar On June 16, Tuesday. The topic for this 60 minutes session is Advanced Resilient Data Architecture in 2020. Rick Jacobs – Technical Product Marketing Manager at Couchbase will be the guest speaker.
Date: May 27 2020
Logs produced by various monitoring tools and other software components are simply too many to scan through to make any sense for the IT Services professionals. It takes a very long time to sift through them, making them difficult to use or redundant when trying to resolve service issues.
Couchbase is now a fullyAutonomous Database Management Platform
Date: May 14 2020
Couchbase achieved another significant milestone by announcing the general availability of Couchbase Autonomous Operator 2.0 which promotes Couchbase as a cloud-native fully autonomous database platform.
Couchbase Cloud - Fully Managed Database Service
Date: May 11 2020
Couchbase became the first SQL-on-NoSQL DBaaS that supports multiple cloud providers by announcing the launch of Couchbase Cloud.
Couchbase-released-first-maintenance-release
Date: May 05 2020
The first maintenance release in the 6.5.x series for Couchbase Server is released by Couchbase in April 2020.
Many sought-after relational capabilities were bought by Couchbase Server 6.5 to the NoSQL world.
Couchbase Server 6.5 seeks to improve developer agility, reduce total cost of ownership, enhance manageability, and provide more enterprise-grade security and performance.
Date: April 28 2020
Business Intelligence is the process of analyzing the data and presenting the data in actionable information to help end-users to make informed business decisions.
Power BI is a cloud-based data analysis tool that is used for reporting and data analysis from a wide range of data sources (Excel, SQL, Oracle).
What’s new in Oracle Database 20c
Date: April 21 2020
Oracle Database 20c introduces key new features and enhancements that further extend Oracle’s multi-model converged architecture with the introduction of Native Blockchain Tables and more performance enhancements such as Automatic In-Memory (AIM) and a binary JSON datatype.
Enterprise IT Service Automation - The CIO Watchlist
Date: March 2 2020
Automation is increasingly acquiring a silver bullet status by virtue of the large number of solutions it has delivered, across industries.
Enterprises Still Use Relational Databases?
Date: February 5 2020
Do you think the pendulum of the database industry is starting to swing away from NoSQL and back towards relational databases?
What's new with SQL Server 2017?
Date: June 2017
Community Technology Preview (CTP) 2.0 is the first production-quality preview of SQL Server 2017, and it is available on both Windows and Linux.
SQL Server 2016 Dynamic Data Masking
Date: May 2017
Dynamic Data Masking is a new feature introduced in SQL 2016. This feature helps you to protect your sensitive data from unauthorized access.
SQL Server 2017 Hidden Gems – Part 1
Date: April 2017
In this, the first in a series of blogs, we will be covering salient new features and enhancements in Microsoft SQL Server 2017.
Best Practices for Managed 3rd Party InfoSec Assessment
Date: April 2017
What is Managed 3rd party Assessments? Let’s scope out the best practices over Pre Execution or Planning
Date: Feb 2017
DBAs who used to work on improving performance & fixing backup problems, recover and restoring data, design physical databases etc are expected to take on additional technical responsibilities.
The Top 7 Cloud Delusion & Advice
Date: December 2016
Cloud computing is uniquely susceptible to the confusion and hype that surrounds it. Delusion is sometimes harmful and they do have an effect on how we approach solutions. Here is the list of top 7 common misconceptions that CIOs should look out for.
How to secure your database server
Date: December 2016
The increasing pressure of compliance regulations and security policies makes the deployment of high-level database protection a must-have for any organization. For those looking for ways to advance database security, here are some best practices to secure your database server.
Top Trends in Database Management for next year
Date: November 2016
Concepts in database management hardly fall in the category of come-and-go, as the cost of shifting between technical approaches control managers and designers. What are the current trends in database management?
Date: March 15 2016
Most people purchase Software as a Service (SaaS) applications with the same expectations as purchasing a new car. Just like the new car, the application should be sleek and clean, and drive effortlessly off the lot.
SQL Server Dedicated Admin Connection - What’s that? How do I use it?
Date: October 15 2015
Dedicated Admin Connection is a back door connection to SQL Server Instance which should be used ONLY when your SQL instance run is in serious problem. Dedicated Admin Connection has a dedicated scheduler with a worker thread and a memory node.