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Azure – Private preview: AKS cluster persistent volume backup
AKS persistent volume backup provides backup and restore ability for the persistent volumes of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Regional deployments for all new and existing IoT Central applications
All previously created IoT Central applications in a geography are now mapped to standard Azure region. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally Available: Recovery points extended to 15 days with Azure Site Recovery
The extended recovery points give you flexibility in how you want to manage recovery points and the ability to recover older recovery points if you missed detecting them. Read More for the details.
GCP – Scaling read-only workloads on Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL with HAProxy
Cloud SQL is Google Cloud’s fully managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server workloads. Cloud SQL enables customers to implement horizontal scaling of read-only workloads using read replicas. In this blog post, we will demonstrate a single-endpoint read scaling and load balancing solution using Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and HAProxy, with automatic […]
GCP – Measure and maximize the value of Data Science and AI teams
Investing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) can bring a competitive advantage to your organization. If you’re in charge of an AI or Data Science team, you’ll want to measure and maximize the value that you’re providing. Here is some advice from our years of experience in the field. A checklist to embark on a project: As […]
GCP – Protecting customers against cryptomining threats with VM Threat Detection in Security Command Center
As organizations move to the cloud, VM-based architectures continue to make up a significant portion of compute-centric workloads. To help ensure strong protection for these deployments, we are thrilled to announce a public preview of our newest layer of threat detection in Security Command Center (SCC): Virtual Machine Threat Detection (VMTD). VMTD is a first-to-market […]
GCP – Google Cloud moves Cloud Client Libraries for Node.js support for version 10 to Maintenance
On March 31, 2022, Node.js 10 will be going into maintenance mode for the Google Cloud Node.js SDK. When doing so, libraries will have their major version increased, in accordance with Semantic Versioning. Motivation Node.js LTS versions have a 30 month lifecycle, during which time they receive critical bug and security updates: Image by Node.js. […]
AWS – AWS Storage Gateway enables on-premises users to recover previous versions of files on Amazon FSx File Gateway
Amazon FSx File Gateway now enables your on-premises file share users to browse and restore previous versions of files that are stored on Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems by the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). This capability enables quick and easy self-service recovery of files in case of a loss due to an […]
GCP – Implementing the saga pattern in Workflows
It’s common to have a separate database for each service in microservices-based architectures. This pattern ensures that the independently designed and deployed microservices remain independent in the data layer as well. But it also introduces a new problem: How do you implement transactions (single units of work, usually made up of multiple operations) that span […]
GCP – Security and equity: Scaling remote work in healthcare with Google
Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH) executive Mark Eimer explains howan ambitiously-timed rollout of a comprehensive suite of Google products helped the entire organization—from doctors to IT staff—achieve better security, cultivate a more equitable work environment, and ultimately, improve patient outcomes. How does a recently merged, 17-hospital healthcare system fast-track a platform migration and hardware rollout securely […]