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GCP – The State & Local Government tech tightrope: Balancing COVID-19 impacts and the road ahead
State and local government (SLG) agencies are reeling from a combination of unbudgeted COVID-related expenses and reduced tax revenue caused by unemployment and business closures. Any way you look at it, the situation is challenging. To understand how SLG agencies are coping, Google Cloud collaborated with MeriTalk to survey 200 SLG IT and program managers, […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio: Interactively query data streams and develop stream processing applications powered by Apache Flink
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio is now available, enabling you to interactively query data streams in real time, and easily build and run stream processing applications using SQL, Python, and Scala. With a few clicks, you can launch a serverless notebook to perform ad hoc querying and live data exploration on data streams, and get […]
AWS – Amazon Lightsail DNS now supports pointing root domains to Lightsail Container Services
You can now route traffic from your custom root domains (such as example.com) to your Lightsail container services using Lightsail DNS. Lightsail DNS already supported creating CNAME records mapping to your container services. With this launch, Lightsail DNS supports aliasing your custom root domain to your container service’s default domain which was not possible before. […]
GCP – Analyze your logs easier with log field analytics
We know that developers or operators troubleshooting applications and systems have a lot of data to sort through while getting to the root cause of issues. Often there are fields like error response codes that are critical for finding answers and resolving those issues. Today, we’re proud to announce log field analytics in Cloud Logging, […]
GCP – Never miss a tapeout: Faster chip design with Google Cloud
Cloud offers a proven way to accelerate end-to-end chip design flows. In a previous blog, we demonstrated the inherent elasticity of the cloud, showcasing how front-end simulation workloads can scale with access to more compute resources. Another benefit of the cloud is access to a powerful, modern and global infrastructure. On-prem environments do a fantastic […]
GCP – How to leverage global address resolution using Cloud DNS in Google Cloud VMware Engine
Following up our previous deep dive about multi-VPC networking in Google Cloud VMware Engine and in keeping with the objective of integrating more and more native Google Cloud services, we now support across-the-board global name resolution for the Google Cloud VMware Engine management components, namely vCenter, NSX Manager and HCX Manager. Customers desire the ability […]
GCP – Using New WebGL-powered Maps Features
At Google I/O 2021, we announced the beta release of Tilt and Rotation, and Webgl Overlay View, which give you a fundamentally new way to build mapping experiences. You may be familiar with the existing Overlay View feature of the Maps JavaScript API that lets you render in a transparent layer that sits on top […]
GCP – Introducing Datashare solution for financial services for licensed market data discovery, access and analytics on Google Cloud
Access to the cloud has advanced the distribution and consumption of financial information on a global scale. In parallel, the global financial data landscape has been transformed by an influx of alternative data sources, including social media, meteorological data, satellite imagery, and other data. Exchanges and market data providers now find they need to include […]
GCP – Google Cloud for financial services: driving your transformation cloud journey
When I reflect back on the past year and the pandemic, I’m struck by how the reliance on remote work and operations has changed the fundamentals of business forever. For the financial services industry, this rings particularly true. Many conversations I’m having right now with organizations revolve around embracing a transformation cloud, and thinking of […]
Azure – Azure Storage Blob inventory public preview is now available in all public regions
Blob inventory allows you to get a full listing of all blobs within a storage account or container. This can be used in conjunction with Synapse to calculate per container metrics such as capacity and count. Read More for the details.