Squid Proxy is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Squid has a variety of uses and advantages such as speeding up web browsing for the end user, reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. It also can work as web filtering and can control the browsing traffic. Squid is based on the Harvest Cache Daemon developed in the early 1990’s. It was one of two forks from the codebase after the Harvest project ran to completion. In this …
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Databases form root to all service sectors in this digital era. Facilities to manage these databases have taken different forms in the long run and have eventually reached up to the Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) age. DBMS (Database Management System) is mainly using for only retrieving data in a database. These Softwares include MySQL, Oracle Database, Microsoft Access, PostgreSQL, etc. Major hosting control panels like cPanel, Plesk, Direct Admins have inbuilt provision for above services. Further, maintaining a VPS or a dedicated server for each purpose remains a choice of the clients …
Data analysis is a difficult task, which has seen an attempt to make things simple, forever. Amazon Athena is a data analysis platform that allows you to perform complex queries in a short amount of time. It employs no servers, which makes the setup simple. It is not a database management system. As a result, you get charged for the queries you run. Simply point your data into S3, define the required schema, and you’re ready to go with a typical SQL query. An introduction to AWS Athena Amazon Athena …
The AWS Systems Manager’s capability provides secure, encrypted storage for configuration data management and Credentials/Security management. We can store passwords, database strings, Amazon Machine Image IDs, and license codes as parameter values. We can store values as plain text and encrypted data. You can reference Systems Manager parameters in your scripts, commands, SSM documents, and automation workflows by using the unique name you specified when you created a parameter. It is integrated with the secret manager, which manages the passwords and password policy. To access the open system manager console …
Due to the fact that MariaDB SkySQL is a DBaaS offering, it is a fully-managed database service that is administered via a cloud service using the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Keep in mind that the database MariaDB offers is not the community edition. In actuality, MariaDB Enterprise Server and MariaDB ColumnStore are involved (or both). The advantages of adopting this solution over Amazon RDS or Microsoft Azure Database’s MariaDB services offerings are versioning (SkySQL assures users are on the most recent product release), as well as having analytics, and transactional …
SNI ( Server Name Identification) allows you to host multiple SSL certificates on a single IP address. Although, hosting several sites on a single virtual private server is possible with the use of virtual hosts, providing separate SSL certificates for each site traditionally required separate IP addresses. The process has now been simplified through the use of Server Name Indication (SNI), which sends a site visitor the certificate that matches the requested server name. Requirements to setup Multiple SSL Domain names should be registered in order to serve the certificates …
Wazuh is a complete and open-source platform for threat detection, security monitoring, incident response and regulatory concurrence. This process describes how to construct and use each of the Wazuh components, which consist of the Wazuh server, the Wazuh agent, and Elastic Stack
AWS Cloud infrastructure management can be defined as setup, optimization of components, monitoring and configurations under the cloud infrastructure. It works through a web-based interface. Mainly cloud infrastructure management provides an enterprise with some level of consolidated IT resources and scalability. The users can share the exact infrastructure without compromising the data of each other.
Amazon S3 Glacier, which is also known as Amazon Glacier is considered one of the most durable, secure and cost-effective storage classes for long term data backup and archiving. S3 Glacier is one of the storage classes within the multiple storage options available in Amazon S3.
It’s time to take a quick look into the not-so-distant future. New technologies around cognitive systems and artificial intelligence (AI) are already impacting organizations in a variety of industries. According to IDC, widespread adoption of cognitive systems and AI across a broad range of industries will drive worldwide revenues from nearly $8.0 billion in 2016 to more than $47 billion in 2020. “Software developers and end user organizations have already begun the process of embedding and deploying cognitive/artificial intelligence into almost every kind of enterprise application or process,” David Schubmehl, …