Businesses striving to increase their competitive advantage with big data analytics can do so with help from Pentaho Business Analytics 5.0, a completely redesigned data integration and analytics platform. The result of many years of intensive planning, research and conversations with customers and industry experts, Pentaho 5.0 provides a full spectrum of analytics for today's big data-driven businesses regardless of data type and volume, IT architecture or analysis required. The new, modern interface simplifies the user experience for all those working to turn data into competitive advantage. Highlights of Pentaho's 250+ new features and improvements include blended big data for more accurate insights, simplified analytics and user experience and enterprise-ready big data integration. These features are targeted at five key analytic personas in the enterprise, says Pentaho, and Pentaho 5.0 offers benefits to all these roles and includes functionality to help eliminate many of the common pain points that are holding back big data initiatives in companies of all sizes.
If Crucial could tell you one thing about its new 64GB DDR3L Load-Reduced DIMMs (LRDIMMs) for servers, it would be that they enable more DIMMs per channel for up to twice the installed memory capacity per server. By enabling high-end server environments with demanding workloads to reach the maximum amount of installed memory possible, dramatic performance gains in memory bandwidth and overall server productivity are possible, all while reducing power costs relative to adding additional servers. Utilizing 1.35V (vs. 1.5V) for optimal energy efficiency, Crucial LRDIMMs offer up to a 35% increase in memory bandwidth compared to standard registered DIMMs and eliminate the channel ranking limitation of standard DDR3 registered DIMMs. These new memory modules also are compatible with OEM servers and warranties, allowing users to upgrade their existing server infrastructures without having to purchase an entirely new system. Crucial LRDIMMs fully support the latest Intel Xeon processor E5 family.
Perl one-liners are small, super-nifty Perl programs that fit in one line of code and do one thing really well. Peteris Krumins' new book Perl One-Liners: 130 Programs That Get Things Done showcases short and compelling lines of code that do all sorts of handy, geeky things like numbering lines in a file; generating random passwords; encoding, decoding and converting strings; calculating factorials; and even checking to see if a number is prime with a regular expression. Krumins' dissections of each bit of code will help readers gain a deeper understanding of the Perl language, and the Perl one-liners contained herein are sure to save time and sharpen skills.
Android devices are becoming ever more established in the mobile device market. With the release of Android 4, they are moving beyond consumer applications into corporate/enterprise use. Developers who want to build data-driven Android applications that integrate with enterprise systems will want to investigate the new Wrox book titled Enterprise Android: Programming Android Database Applications for the Enterprise, authored by Zigurd Mednieks, G. Blake Meike, Laird Dornin and Zane Pan. In the tradition of Wrox Professional guides, Enterprise Android thoroughly covers sharing and displaying data, transmitting data to enterprise applications and much more. Additional topics include collecting and storing data using SQLite, sharing data using content providers, displaying data using adapters, data migration, transmitting data with Web services and more.
Our community is packed with power citizens, from free speech advocates to Second Amendment gurus and civil rights activists. To inform your activism, or simply to live up to Thomas Jefferson's ideal of an informed citizenry, the Library of Congress has a new resource for you. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation, popularly known as the “Constitution Annotated” is now available as a free app and Web publication. The resource, formerly difficult to access by the general public due to its size and update cycle, makes analysis and interpretation of constitutional case law accessible to anyone with a computer or mobile device. The Web publication consists of digitally signed, searchable PDF documents. Meanwhile the app, which adds a wealth of interactive features, is available for the iOS platform; an Android version is currently under development.
As the OpenStack cloud computing platform infiltrates data centers worldwide, the demand for educated administrators and users to manage these clouds grows in tandem. To help developers and operators gain the valuable skills they need to exploit the burgeoning opportunities, the OpenStack Foundation and its ecosystem partners have responded with the Training Marketplace. The on-line “course catalog” features dozens of courses across 10 countries and 25 cities, from providers at launch time as varied as Aptira, hastexo, The Linux Foundation, Mirantis, Morphlabs, Piston, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE and SwiftStack. In addition to paid and free training courses, many community efforts are available to produce helpful documentation, how-to information and new Operations and Security guide books.
In midst of a cloud push, Zentyal Linux Small Business Server 3.2 represents a drop-in alternative to existing SMB solutions for companies seeking a choice in how to manage their network infrastructure. The all-in-one IT backoffice, which can be set up in less than 30 minutes, is an integration of the complex Samba technologies that provides native interoperability with Microsoft Active Directory and a range of other services. The solution speaks to customers who have logistical, security and connectivity concerns about moving to the cloud. The single most important improvement that Zentyal Server 3.2 introduces, according to its developer, is greater integration of the Samba technology, meaning that it is now possible to introduce Zentyal Server transparently on a Windows environment, migrate network services and users to Zentyal and then turn off unneeded Windows servers without causing inconvenience to users. Zentyal Server 3.2 also supports Group Policy Objects and Organizational Units and secures mobile communications to the private company resources out of the box.
The headlining new feature of SUSE Cloud 2.0 is the capacity for setting up a mixed-hypervisor private cloud environment that can be deployed rapidly and managed easily, helping enterprises increase business agility and reduce IT costs. SUSE Cloud 2.0 supports KVM and Xen hypervisor environments and is the first OpenStack distribution (namely Grizzly) to add full support for Microsoft Hyper-V. VMware ESXi integration also is included as a technical preview. Other advances in v2.0 include a more robust installation process, integration with the Crowbar deployment framework, all of the features and fixes of OpenStack Grizzly, improved integration with SUSE Studio and SUSE Manager for building and managing cloud-based applications and a broader ecosystem of partner solutions to configure private clouds based on unique IT infrastructure requirements.
