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GCP – Physicians say better data interoperability will save lives
COVID-19 affirmed the importance of data in healthcare, as the world rose to the challenge of understanding and fighting the pandemic. For decades, patient data has been stuck in silos, forcing physicians and caregivers to hunt across multiple sources for various bits of information to create a complete picture of a patient’s health. This lack […]
GCP – Advancing our trusted cloud with engineered-in, invisible security
Security has risen to the forefront of concerns for enterprises and governments around the globe. Attacks ripping across the software supply chain, zero-day issues in widely used email services, and ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure industries all provide evidence that adversaries are getting bolder, more successful and more prevalent. Despite these increasing risks, many security […]
GCP – Extending our Trusted Cloud: Introducing Cloud IDS for Network-based Threat Detection
Every day, Google Cloud helps customers around the world stay ahead of evolving threats and keep their workloads safe. Today, we’re advancing these efforts with Cloud IDS, our new network security offering, which is now available in preview. With Cloud IDS, we’re extending our trusted cloud with native network-based threat detection capabilities to help you […]
Azure – Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the Canada East region
Azure VMware Solution has expanded availability to Canada East. With this release Canada East is now the second region within the Canadian sovereign area to become available (joining Canada Central). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports streaming transcription in Amazon Web Services China
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. We are excited to announce streaming transcription support in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD. Read More for […]
GCP – Scaling deep learning workloads with PyTorch / XLA and Cloud TPU VM
Introduction Many deep learning advancements can be attributed to increases in (1) data size and (2) computational power. Training deep learning models with larger datasets can be extremely beneficial for model training. Not only do they help stabilize model performance during training, but research shows that for moderate to large-scale models and datasets, model performance […]
AWS – AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Volumes
Today AWS announced general availability of io2 Block Express volumes that deliver up to 4x higher throughput, IOPS, and capacity than io2 volumes, and are designed to deliver sub-millisecond latency and 99.999% durability. io2 Block Express refers to io2 volumes running on the EBS Block Express architecture, and supports standard io2 features such as Multi-Attach […]
Azure – Public preview: IoT Edge Metrics Collector module 1.0.1 release
This update provides security and reliability improvements, and support for government and regional clouds. Read More for the details.
Azure – Shared disks on Azure Disk Storage are now generally available on all Premium SSD and Standard SSD sizes
Shared disks can now be leveraged on smaller Premium SSDs from 4GiB to 128 GiB and all Standard SSDs from 4 GiB to 32 TiB. This expands shared disk support to Ultra Disk, Premium SSD, and Standard SSD enabling you to optimize for different price and performance options based on your workload needs. Read More […]
Azure – Public preview: Scan and view lineage of data stored in Erwin Mart, Google BigQuery and Looker using Azure Purview
Azure Purview now supports automated scanning from Erwin, BigQuery and Looker soureces to extract schema and lineage between data. Read More for the details.