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AWS – Amazon Redshift announces support for PIVOT and UNPIVOT SQL operators
Amazon Redshift now supports PIVOT and UNPIVOT SQL operators that can help you transpose rows into columns and vice versa with high performance, for data modeling, data analysis, and data presentation. You can also use PIVOT and UNPIVOT to more easily migrate from your existing data warehouse systems to Amazon Redshift. Read More for the […]

GCP – PyTorch on Google Cloud: Blog series recap
PyTorch is an open source machine learning framework, primarily developed by Meta (previously Facebook). PyTorch is extensively used in the research space and in recent years it has gained immense traction in the industry due to its ease of use and deployment. Vertex AI, a fully managed end-to-end data science and machine learning platform on […]

GCP – Migrating a PHP application to use Cloud Spanner
PHP is used in ~78% of websites, making it a popular language for developers. If your application runs PHP and you want to take advantage of Google Cloud Spanner for its reliability and scalability, this post is for you! We will highlight the common steps to migrate an existing PHP application to Spanner. The example […]

Azure – Public preview: New capabilities for Azure Monitor logs
Add value and increase cost effectiveness with Azure Monitor logs Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Custom retention for AzureActivity and Usage data tables
Set specific retention periods on AzureActivity and Usage data tables in Log Analytics workspaces, keeping such data for a longer time, while maintaining the workspace retention as low as needed. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Log Analytics data export in Azure Monitor
Log Analytics data export is ready for production deployments, supporting most tables in Log Analytics workspaces. Read More for the details.

GCP – New ways to secure Chrome from the cloud with Chrome Browser Cloud Management
IT and security teams have a lot on their plate – from supporting the transition to new work environments, to preventing an increasing number of security attacks. And as more and more work is done in the browser, it’s important for IT and security professionals to look at the browser as a critical piece of […]

GCP – Ready, set, launch! Cloud Spanner makes application launches easier with warmup and benchmarking tool.
Cloud Spanner is a fully managed relational database with unlimited scale, strong consistency, and up to five 9s of availability. To achieve the powers of consistency, scale and availability by default Cloud Spanner has a built-in mechanism to automatically shard your database and provide a transparent and seamless experience. Spanner is a distributed database and […]

AWS – AWS Transfer Family announces enhancements to workflows
Today, AWS Transfer Family is pleased to announce enhancements to the managed workflows capability, which can save you even more time in automating file processing steps such as moving and renaming files, retaining source files for archival, dynamically routing files to user-specific folders, and deploying and monitoring workflows using AWS CloudFormation and AWS CloudWatch metrics. Read […]
Azure – General availability: Localization available in Azure Purview
The Azure Purview UX team has localized Azure Purview studio to 18 languages. Read More for the details.