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GCP – Micro Focus Enterprise Server blueprint available for Google Cloud
For decades large enterprises have developed and operated their most critical workloads on the mainframe due to the scalability, security and performance demands of these business systems. But finding the talent to maintain and operate these workloads is increasingly more difficult, the business demand for faster innovation, the downward pressure on costs and the need […]

GCP – Building cloud into your data strategy delivers higher efficiency
Presently, every government agency has to take a hard look at their data capabilities and decide whether their current infrastructure supports their workflow. For many, it doesn’t. Most data systems are developed with a strict set of parameters in mind before implementation, which can limit flexibility and long-term use. Particularly during a crisis, flexible “living […]

Azure – Public preview: On-demand capacity reservation with Azure Site Recovery safeguards VMs failover
Integrating Site Recovery with capacity reservation to reserve compute capacity in the disaster recovery region and use that for failover. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports new minor versions 10.6.7, 10.5.15, 10.4.24, 10.3.34, 10.2.43
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.6.7, 10.5.15, 10.4.24, 10.3.34 and 10.2.43. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference (in Preview) and Asynchronous Inference add support for SageMaker Python SDK
Amazon SageMaker Serverless and Asynchronous Inference now support Amazon SageMaker Python SDK, which abstracts the steps required for deployment and thereby simplifies the model deployment workflow. The SageMaker Python SDK is an open source library for deploying machine learning models on Amazon SageMaker. You can use any of the optimized machine learning frameworks, SageMaker supported […]

AWS – You can now customize how data is stored on your Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file system to optimize performance for database applications
You can now customize how data is stored on your Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file system to optimize performance for database applications and other workloads that consistently read and write data in small increments. Read More for the details.


AWS – Configurable cipher suites now available for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
You can now configure your database connections on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition from an allowable list of ciphers. Configurable cipher suites provide you more security control over the connection encryption that your database server accepts. Read More for the details.

GCP – Event Monitoring with explanations on the Google Cloud
Use Cases We are describing a new production machine learning solution to monitor events in IT and industrial operations and explain their symptoms. This solution is used for a variety of industrial applications including proactively monitoring IT operations infrastructure, monitoring events in the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices, and predictive monitoring to any […]
GCP – Google Cloud Text-to-Speech API now supports custom voices
With the rise of digital assistants and conversational interfaces, people have grown accustomed to hearing and speaking to synthetic voices. But what do those voices sound like? Often, pretty repetitive. We’re all familiar with the Google Assistant voice, for example. That’s why we are excited to announce the general availability of Custom Voice in our […]