AWS Database Migration Service and AWS Schema Conversion Tool continue to simplify the migration of relational databases, NoSQL databases and data warehouses to the cloud. You can now convert your schemas, extract your data and migrate it from additional data warehouses to Amazon Redshift, a data warehouse designed for the cloud from the ground up.
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President Trump plans to sign an executive order on Tuesday, dubbed “Buy American, Hire American,” that will call for a rethink of the visa system that brings skilled foreign workers into the United States.
The administration argues the existing H-1B visa system lowers wages for American workers by allowing businesses to hire foreigners who will accept lower salaries. “About 80% of H-1B workers are paid less than the median wage in their fields,” a senior administration official said in a briefing on Monday.
Trump plans to call for a system that prioritizes visas for highly-paid workers, the official said. A limit of 85,000 H-1B visas are made available each year, and the government is typically flooded with more than 200,000 applicants. Successful applicants are currently chosen via a lottery; Tuesday's order will call for a new system that selects the highest skilled and highest paid candidates.
The program “is supposed to be a means for bringing in skilled labor,” the official said. Currently, outsourcing firms snap up large numbers of the limited supply of visas, leading to complaints that the system is being abused. As part of Tuesday&039;s order, agencies will be told to prioritize enforcing the rules of the current system, which requires employers to pay the prevailing local wage to foreign employees.
The order is planned to be announced by Trump as he visits the headquarters of Snap-on Tools, a manufacturer based in Kenosha, Wisconsin, senior administration officials said during a briefing on Monday.
Silicon Valley giants like Google and Facebook, along with many others in the US tech industry, have complained that they can&039;t recruit sufficient numbers of highly-skilled engineers using the current H-1B lottery system. Reforms that prioritize the highest-paid applicants could be good news for companies that pay generously.
“In some sense these changes could benefit companies who use the H-1B to fill highly skilled jobs,” immigration attorney Sam Adair, of the firm Graham Adair, told BuzzFeed News. “Not having to rely on the lottery system will be a benefit. It will be a pain point to many companies, but some employers will benefit from this.”
While the coming changes to the visa program could be a boon for major tech companies, outsourcing firms could suffer. When rumors of the order first circulated in January, the three biggest Indian outsourcing firms lost billions in market value.
The administration plans to release a fact sheet and guidance on what exactly will change following the order. Already, an announcement from the US Citizen and Immigration Services in April indicated the administration would be cracking down on abuse of the system; it set up an email hotline for reporting fraud and said it would “continue random and unannounced visits” to workplaces with high numbers of H-1B holders.
The “Buy American” portion of the order will ask the U.S. Trade Representative and Commerce Department to increase America-based production and to reduce the number of waivers and exceptions to existing Buy American laws in international trade agreements.
“It will be interesting to see how Congress reacts to this and whether there is broad support for it,” said Adair.
Caroline O&039;Donovan and Adrian Carrasquillo contributed reporting to this article.
Quelle: <a href="Trump&039;s "Hire American" Order Could Be Good News For Silicon Valley“>BuzzFeed
Was macht die US-Regierung eigentlich mit dem Geld der Steuerzahler? Um diese Frage zu beantworten, hat der frühere Microsoft-Chef Ballmer viel Geld ausgegeben. (Steve Ballmer, Microsoft)
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Verwandte und Bekannte aus der Timeline von Facebook können sich nun in Spaces virtuell treffen – und weitere Kontakte per Messenger-Videotelefonat einladen. Auf der Entwicklerkonferenz F8 hat Mark Zuckerberg außerdem Neues zum Thema Augmented Reality angekündigt. (Facebook, Soziales Netz)
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Imagine if you could get a dynamic, end-to-end view of your IT environment, and respond to issues as they arise. You could see how your applications, services, and workloads are connected, and how your servers interact with the networks. You could see connections turn red if they fail, view cascading alerts, and see rogue clients that could be causing problems. Not only that, but with just a tap of a button you could fix the issue, and see the red alerts go away. Bringing together your data from workloads, applications, and networks help you start to see the big picture. However, when you apply machine learning and crowd-sourced knowledge from around the globe, suddenly you can visualize and act on your data in a way that you never have before.
To help get this visibility into your cloud and on-premises environment and make it actionable, we are introducing today new monitoring and diagnostics capabilities in Azure:
Visibility
Map out process and server dependencies with Service Map, a new technology in Azure Insight & Analytics, to make it easier to troubleshoot and plan ahead for future changes or migrations.
Use DNS Analytics, a new solution in Azure Insight & Analytics, to help you visualize real-time security, performance, and operations-related data for your DNS servers.
Action
Remediate issues right away with a new option in Azure Insight & Analytics to Take Action and resolve an issue directly from a log search result.
Use the Smart Diagnostics functionality in Azure Application Insights to diagnose sudden changes in the performance or usage of your web application.
In addition, expanded support for Linux has been added to monitoring tools and capabilities in Azure Automation & Control, including Linux patching and Linux file change tracking. You can also now ingest custom logs into Azure Application Insights for more powerful data correlations and analytics.
Visualize dependencies in your environment
A big part of what makes you successful is how quickly you can resolve issues. We take the hard part out of data collection and insights, so you can analyze the issues and resolve them more quickly. The Service Map technology, now generally available, allows you to automatically discover and build a common reference map of dependencies across servers, processes, and 3rd party services, in real-time. This helps you to isolate problems and accelerate root-cause analysis, by visualizing process and server dependencies. In the same dashboard, you can see prioritized alerts, recent changes, notable security issues, and system updates that are due.
In addition, you can use this new capability to make sure nothing is left behind during migrations with the help of the detailed process and server inventory, or identify servers that need to be decommissioned. InSpark uses Service Map to help customer plan and execute migrations to Azure. “Before Service Map, we had to rely on customers to provide information about their servers’ dependencies, and that information was error prone in and incomplete,” says Maarten Goet, Managing Partner. “Now, with Service Map, we immediately see all of their dependencies and we can build an accurate plan for moving business services into Azure.”
See across network devices
Modern businesses are powered by apps that have fast, reliable and secure network connections. Domain Name System (DNS) server is a core component of an organization’s IT infrastructure, that enables such network connections. So, the visibility into operations, performance, and audit of DNS servers is critical for businesses.
You can use DNS Analytics, a solution now in public preview in Azure Insight & Analytics, to get visibility into your entire DNS infrastructure. This solution helps you visualize real-time security, performance, and operations-related information of your DNS servers through real-time dashboard views. You can drill-down into the dashboard to gain granular details on the state of your DNS infrastructure, create alerts, and remediate DNS server issues. “DNS Analytics provided us with the in-depth information I have been missing,” says Marius Sandbu, cloud architect for Evry, “both to be able to troubleshoot DNS registrations from clients and servers, but also to detect traffic to malware domains.”
Take action to remediate
Turning insights into action is made easier with the ability to create alerts if something is out of the norm and connecting alerts with workflows to remediate automatically. Now it’s even easier in Azure with the capability to perform in-line remediation using the Take Action button in Azure Insight & Analytics. In the Log Search view, you can now choose to take action from a search result to immediately address whatever was detected by the log. This functionality fixes your log issue by selecting a runbook, previously scripted or leveraged from the runbook gallery in Azure Automation, and deploying it. You can solve your problem right away, eliminating extra work and time during an already pressing situation.
Diagnose application issues on the spot
You can now diagnose sudden changes in your web app’s performance or usage with a single click, powered by Machine Learning algorithms in Azure Application Insights Analytics. The Smart Diagnostics feature is available whenever you create or render a time chart. Anywhere it finds an unusual change from the trend of your results, such as a spike or a dip, it identifies a pattern of dimensions that might explain the change. This helps you diagnose the problem quickly. Smart Diagnostics can successfully identify a pattern of property values associated with a change, and highlight the difference between results with and without that pattern, essentially suggesting the most probable root cause leading to an anomaly.
Get started today
Azure management and security services help you to gain greater visibility into your environment with advanced data analysis and visualization, and make it easy to turn insights into action. Learn more about the capabilities of Azure Insight & Analytics, Azure Automation, and Azure Application Insights.
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Facebook baut seinen Messenger weiter zur Anwendungsplattform aus. Nutzer sollen Bots künftig leichter finden und sie auch in Gruppen-Chats einbinden können. So hören Nutzer gemeinsam Songs etwa von Spotify.
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You can now use Caffe2 with the AWS Deep Learning AMI for Ubuntu, available on the AWS Marketplace. The addition of Caffe2, a project led by Facebook, allows developers another choice of deep learning frameworks on the AWS platform. To learn more about Caffe2, you can check out the GitHub repository.
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You can now use Caffe2 with the AWS Deep Learning AMI for Ubuntu, available on the AWS Marketplace. The addition of Caffe2, a project led by Facebook, allows developers another choice of deep learning frameworks on the AWS platform. To learn more about Caffe2, you can check out the GitHub repository.
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The direct messaging app is used by 1.2 billion people each month.
Those bots are apps inside the Messenger app. Facebook calls them “chat extensions” when they integrate into your messages.
For example: You can send songs via Spotify and play them within Messenger. (You can already send Spotify links to people, but the bot makes it a lot more seamless and keeps you in the Messenger app even while you&039;re listening to the song.) The NBA, Food Network, and others have also made bots.
The Discover tab strongly resembles Snapchat&039;s identically titled Discover tab. Facebook has also mimicked another signature Snapchat feature, Snapchat Stories, in all its social apps: WhatsApp, Instagram, the Facebook app, and Messenger.
David Marcus, vice president of messaging at Facebook, said that the company developed the Discover page within the app to help with recommending relevant bots to users, something both developers working with Messenger and users have repeatedly asked for.
In fact, there&039;s a whole new games tab, and you can now play turn-based games like Words With Friends within the app. The Messenger games before now were live-action games like Galaga or Pac-Man.
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It&039;ll now play a bigger role in your messages. Facebook says the virtual assistant will recognize when you&039;re talking about specific tasks like meeting up at a certain time or picking a dinner spot. In response, M will offer suggestions like calendar reminders or food delivery options, which will be created by Facebook partners.
Think easy-to-answer questions like “What are your business hours?” or “Where are you located?” and other basic information.
According to Marcus, if the AI-powered business replier doesn&039;t have an answer to a question, it will respond with “Let me get you someone who can help you” and alert the business&039;s owners of the request. When the owners reply, Marcus said, the bot will digest the reply text and use it to reply to similar questions in the future.
Alex Kantrowitz contributed to this report.
Quelle: <a href="Facebook Just Added A Bunch Of New Features To Messenger“>BuzzFeed
Auf seiner Entwicklermesse f8 hat Facebook seine VR-Spaces als Betaversion für die Allgemeinheit freigegeben. Anwender können sich damit via Oculus Rift oder Messenger gemeinsam in virtuelle Szenerien treffen.
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