The Rockwell hardness number is expressed as a combination of the measured numerical hardness value and the scale letter preceded by the letters, HR. For example, a hardness value of 80 on the Rockwell A scale is reported as 80 HRA. Regular Rockwell Hardness Testing- Measures the bulk hardness of the material.
What is aPaaS? aPaaS is an acronym for application Platform-as-a-Service. According to Gartner, aPaaS is a cloud service that offers development and deployment environments for application services. Platform as a service (PaaS) is defined as application infrastructure functionality enriched with cloud characteristics and offered as a service.
What is the Microsoft Analytics Platform System (APS)? Analytics Platform System (APS) is simply a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW). It is not really a new product, but rather a name change due to a new feature in Appliance Update 1 (AU1) of PDW. That new feature is the ability to have a HDInsight region (a Hadoop cluster) inside the appliance. Think of APS as the âevolutionâ of Microsoftâs current SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse product. Using PolyBase, it now supports the ability to query data using SQL across the traditional data warehouse, plus data stored in a Hadoop region, whether in the appliance or a separate Hadoop Cluster.