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Lower Your Google Cloud Costs with These 5 Google Dataproc Best Practices

Thinking about using Google Dataproc as your cloud vendor? We can see why. Google Dataproc is a powerful tool for analytics and data processing, but to get the most out of it you have to ensure you use it properly. We’re going to explore five best practices you can use to lower your Google cloud costs while maximizing efficiency: Following these tips will ensure the best performance and help keep your cloud costs in line.

Meet the Data Manager for Splunk Cloud

Sometimes "getting data in” (or GDI) can be just as complicated as managing the data itself. From the early days of Splunk, getting data in has been a critical aspect of delivering the right data for visibility, investigation, and action. As data locality proliferates, formats evolve, and volumes grow, customers need easy access to their data, in the right place, in the right shape, and at the right time.

Real Time eCommerce Analytics: The Only Solution for the Holiday Season

Digital trade and eCommerce companies are generating transactions in more significant quantities than ever before. In 2020, eCommerce sales made up 19% of all worldwide retail transactions, representing $26.7 trillion in revenue. The cornerstone of any eCommerce company is providing a seamless, reliable experience where customers can log into a clean interface, browse products, and make purchases quickly and on-demand. Increased digitization after the pandemic has only heightened the stakes.

How to Monitor Your Internet Speed with Telegraf & InfluxDB Cloud

Complaining about your crappy internet speed is a tale as old as time. Given the rapid shift for so many of us to work from home, our internet speed now affects us on a daily basis. Where in my house should I avoid taking Zoom meetings because of low download speed? Does my internet speed actually get worse in the evenings, or am I just paranoid? How far away from the microwave do I really need to be to ensure that my wifi isn’t impacted?

InfluxDB and GeoData - Emergency Generators

With the widespread use of LTE (Long Term Evolution), we are seeing more IoT devices come online in remote regions of our planet. Picture this scenario: A country is currently experiencing a national emergency due to an electrical grid failure. To mitigate the power shortage the government has deployed generators in the remote regions of their country to power the most remote villages. The problem? The villages are still reporting outages due to the emergency generators running out of fuel.

Snowflake vs Redshift: Which is the Right Data Warehouse for You

A plethora of surveys has shown that there is significant growth in the digital data that enterprises generate every day and it is becoming difficult for traditional on-premise systems to cope up with the enormous amounts of data. Also, the old methods require huge capital and resources. Therefore, Cloud-based Data Warehouses are taking the place of traditional ones to collect, store and analyze data coming from multiple sources.

Building a unified analytics platform for ServiceDesk Plus, Desktop Central and OpManager

It's no secret that data-driven IT management can put your organization light years ahead of its peers. The challenge is, how can you bring in data from several IT applications and services into one console for analysis? Analytics Plus, ManageEngine's flagship IT analytics software, has introduced blended analytics that enables users to automatically blend data from ServiceDesk Plus, Desktop Central, and OpManager, and gain a unified view of the IT environment.