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GCP – Google’s subsea fiber optics, explained
Fiber optic networks are a foundation of the modern internet. In fact, subsea cables carry 99% of international network traffic, and yet we are barely aware that they exist. What you might not know is that the first subsea cable was deployed in 1858 for telegraph messages between Europe and North America. A message took […]

Azure – Public preview: Azure Backup supports metrics and metric alerts for Azure Blobs
You can now monitor the restore job health of your backed up blobs via Azure Monitor metrics and write custom alert rules on these metrics. Read More for the details.

GCP – Meet Google’s unified data and AI offering
Without AI, you’re not getting the most out of your data.Without data, you risk stale, out-of-date, suboptimal models. But most companies are still struggling with how to keep these highly interdependent technologies in sync and operationalize AI to take meaningful action from data. We’ve learned from Google’s years of experience in AI development how to […]

GCP – Build a secure data warehouse with the new security blueprint
As Google Cloud continues our efforts to be the industry’s most trusted cloud, we’re taking an active stake to help customers achieve better security for their cloud data warehouses. With our belief in shared fate driving us to make it easier to build strong security into deployments, we provide security best practices and opinionated guidance […]

GCP – Boost the power of your transactional data with Cloud Spanner change streams
Data is one of the most valuable assets in today’s digital economy. One way to unlock the value of your data is to give it life after it’s first collected. A transactional database, like Cloud Spanner, captures incremental changes to your data in real time, at scale, so you can leverage it in more powerful […]

GCP – Modernize your Oracle workloads to PostgreSQL with Database Migration Service, now in preview
Many organizations have been struggling with the complexity of their legacy databases. Unfortunately, they often find themselves locked into expensive licenses and restrictive contracts, which can limit their ability to modernize and introduce new functionality. Migrating to open-source databases, especially in the cloud, can solve many of these issues and help build modern, scalable, cost-effective […]

GCP – Google Cloud partners with CIQ to provide an enterprise-grade experience for Rocky Linux
At Google Cloud, we strive to offer a great customer experience for enterprises by building a robust and supported platform for running all Linux-based workloads. This mission is why we were one of the first cloud providers to offer purpose-built Rocky Linux images when Rocky Linux debuted last year as a replacement option for CentOS. […]

GCP – Accelerate your move to the cloud with the new Database Migration Program
Today, we’re announcing the Database Migration Program, a new and stress-free approach to migrating existing open source and proprietary databases, whether on-premises or in the cloud, to Google Cloud’s industry-leading, managed database services. With the Database Migration Program, you benefit from assessments, tooling, best practices, and resources from our network of specialized database technology partners. […]

GCP – BigLake: unifying data lakes and data warehouses across clouds
The volume of valuable data that organizations have to manage and analyze is growing at an incredible rate. This data is increasingly distributed across many locations, including data warehouses, data lakes, and NoSQL stores. As an organization’s data gets more complex and proliferates across disparate data environments, silos emerge, creating increased risk and cost, especially […]
GCP – Meet Canadian compliance requirements with Protected B landing zones
The Canadian government’s security guidance for cloud environments outlines a standardized set of security controls to protect data and workloads in the cloud. The security guidance, known as the Security Control Profile for Cloud-based GC Services, also outlines security controls and profiles from a different publication, the IT Security Risk Management: A Lifecycle Approach (ITSG-33). […]