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GCP – Serverless vs fully managed: What’s the difference?
When you decide to build an application in the cloud one of the first questions that you have to ask yourself is – will your application be built using serverless or fully managed services in the cloud. These terms are a bit loose and can sometimes overlap or be used interchangeably. In this article let […]

Azure – Azure Backup – Automation updates – 2021
Summary of key automation updates for Azure Backup in 2021 Read More for the details.

GCP – A migration story: How NCR & Opus delivered Card Management to Google Cloud
Migrating legacy systems to the cloud can be challenging for large enterprises. However, migration to the cloud also ensures higher performance, scalability, and availability in the long run. This blog highlights the collaboration between NCR Corporation and Opus Consulting Solutions and their success story of effectively migrating their Card Management Solution (NCR Authentic Cards), to […]

GCP – Anthos Config Management: Enforcing the CIS Benchmark with Policy Controller
Many companies were forced to accelerate their digital transformation by rolling out new apps and services to help them adapt to the disruption caused by COVID-19. Kubernetes played a vital role to address this challenge as organizations around the globe focused on containerizing their applications in production. Although 84% of global security decision makers report […]

GCP – Top 10 takeaways from Looker’s 2021 JOIN@Home conference
JOIN@Home was an incredible celebration of the achievements that the Looker community made in the last year, and I was proud to be a part of it. Prominent leaders in the data world shared their successes, tips, and plans for the future. In the spirit of keeping the learning alive, I summarized the top two […]

GCP – Carrefour Belgium: Driving a seamless digital experience with SAP on Google Cloud
Stijn Stabel’s first days as CTO of Carrefour Belgium were… challenging. “The data center was out of date with a roof that leaked,” he recalls. Not quite what one would expect from the eighth-largest retailer in the world. Carrefour is a household name in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, operating over 12,000 hypermarkets, groceries, […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Feature Store connector for Apache Spark for easy batch data ingestion
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is announcing a new enhancement, a connector for Apache Spark that makes batch data ingestion easier for customers. Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is a fully managed, purpose-built repository to store, update, retrieve, and share machine learning (ML) model features. There are various ways to ingest data into SageMaker Feature Store including […]

Azure – Generally available: Azure Policy support for Azure Site Recovery
You can now use Azure Policy to enable Azure Site Recovery for your VMs at scale and ensure organizational standards. Read More for the details.

AWS – EMR Studio is now upgraded to JupyterLab v3.1.4
Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug big data and analytics applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. With EMR Studio, you get fully managed notebooks based on JupyterLab. JupyterLab is the next-generation web-based user interface for open source Project […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure HPC – CycleCloud 7.9.10
New release for Azure CycleCloud 7-9-10 Read More for the details.