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GCP – 12 third-party apps for Google Workspace we recommend you try
Google Workspace brings together the communication and collaboration apps you use every day into a seamlessly integrated workspace. To extend and customize these collaboration experiences, users and organizations can leverage third-party apps available on the Google Workspace Marketplace or build their own apps and share them privately on the Marketplace. The thousands of secure third-party […]

GCP – SAG moves to the cloud with Chrome OS devices for Switzerland contact centers
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Marc Fischer, Head of IT Services, Switzerland, of Swiss Automotive Group (SAG), one of the largest suppliers of automotive spare parts in Europe. SAG, based in Cham, Switzerland, serves customers in 10 European countries through over 200 branches. SAG has equipped 450 Swiss employees with Chrome OS devices. In […]

GCP – Celebrating the winners of the 2021 Google Cloud Customer Awards
We’re excited to announce the winners of our second annual Google Cloud Customer Awards, celebrating organizations around the world that adapt to the demands of today and tomorrow, turning inspiring ideas into exciting realities. From healthcare startups like Cue Health, to established global brands like Vodafone, to environmental leaders like Mahindra and Mahindra Limited, to […]

AWS – Announcing support for cross-region search in Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports cross-cluster search across regions, enabling you to perform searches, aggregations, and visualizations across multiple domains in different regions with a single query. Read More for the details.

GCP – Unveiling the 2021 Google Cloud Partner of the Year Award Winners
It’s time to celebrate! Join us in congratulating the 2021 Google Cloud Partner of the Year Award winners. As cloud computing and emerging technologies improve how we connect, share information, and conduct business, these partners helped customers turn challenges into opportunities. We’re proud to work alongside our partners and support customers as they innovate their […]

GCP – Measuring climate and land changes with AI
Imagine what could be possible if we had a dataset that could automatically and in near real-time show you how the Earth has changed week over week, month over month, year over year. We would get a birds eye view of recent events like floods, fires, snowstorms from days ago and be able to identify […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports TDE enabled SQL Server Database Migration
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports TDE enabled database migrations using Native Backup/Restore for Microsoft SQL Server. Previously, you would need to disable TDE on your on-premises TDE enabled SQL Server database in order to migrate to Amazon RDS. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Service Catalog announces support for Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Catalog now supports Attributed Based Access Controls (ABAC), allowing customers the ability to use tags to easily manage access and permissions to AWS resources in Service Catalog. Now, Service Catalog administrators have the ability to define their AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to grant access and specify finer-grained […]

GCP – Automate annotations for Vertex AI text datasets with Cloud Vision API and BigQuery
One of the main challenges machine learning practitioners face is the availability of annotated training datasets or a lack thereof. In many cases, practitioners may have access to existing datasets that have been manually extracted, which they can use to accelerate their model training. In this post, we demonstrate how Google Cloud AI/ML products can […]
GCP – Serverless MEAN Stack Applications with Cloud Run and MongoDB Atlas
Plea and the Pledge: Truly Serverless As modern application developers, we’re juggling many priorities: performance, flexibility, usability, security, reliability, and maintainability. On top of that, we’re handling dependencies, configuration, and deployment of multiple components in multiple environments and sometimes multiple repositories as well. And then we have to keep things secure and simple. Ah, the […]