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AWS – Amazon Nimble Studio adds new features to support Linux, Usage Based Licensing, and Los Angeles Local Zone
Starting today, Amazon Nimble Studio has added new features for customers deploying or updating their cloud-based studios. With additional support for Usage Based Licensing (UBL) from AWS Thinkbox Deadline, deeper Linux integration, and the Los Angeles Local Zone, Amazon Nimble Studio provides customers added functionality when deploying their cloud-based content creation studio. Read More for […]
GCP – For higher education community, choosing Google Workspace for Education is a team effort
“Community” is a word that comes up frequently when I talk to higher education technology leaders: the importance of collaboration across universities to share ideas, enhance research solutions, and optimize their time and budgets. The Internet2 community is where much of the sharing happens—including the organization’s NET+ program, where participants evaluate cloud services that can […]
GCP – Google expands learning paths to help researchers get on the cloud
Academic researchers live in a world of constant change, as research processes and tools continue to get more powerful, but also more complex. With research tools advancing on a daily basis, academic and nonprofit research teams face an ongoing need for learning and re-training. But researchers tell us that with their heavy workloads they don’t […]
GCP – Forrester names Google Cloud a leader in AI Infrastructure
Forrester Research has named Google Cloud a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Infrastructure, Q4 2021 report authored by Mike Gualtieri and Tracy Woo. In the report, Forrester evaluated dimensions of AI architecture, training, inference and management against a set of pre-defined criteria. Forrester’s analysis and recognition gives customers the confidence they need to make […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C6i instances are now available in 10 additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6i instances are available in these additional AWS Regions US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), and South America (São Paulo).C6i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R6i instances are now available in 8 additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 R6i instances are available in additional AWS Regions US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (London), and Europe (Paris). Designed for memory-intensive workloads, R6i instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight […]
GCP – Find anything blazingly fast with Google’s vector search technology
Recently, Google Cloud partner Groovenauts, Inc. published a live demo of MatchIt Fast. As the demo shows, you can find images and text similar to a selected sample from a collection of millions in a matter of milliseconds: Image similarity search with MatchIt Fast Give it a try — and either select a preset image […]
AWS – Amazon FinSpace now provides Quick Setup with pre-configured data catalog, sample data, and improved data loading
Amazon FinSpace now makes it even easier to start analyzing data with newly included financial services sample data, catalog configurations with taxonomy and metadata, capabilities to load your data into Amazon FinSpace, and the ability to run multiple Spark jobs in parallel. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google Cloud recommendations for investigating and responding to the Apache “Log4j 2” vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228)
In this post, we’ll provide recommendations from the Google Cybersecurity Action Team and discuss solutions available to Google Cloud customers and security teams to manage the risk of the Apache “Log4j 2” vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228). Please visit Google Cloud’s advisory page for the latest updates on our assessment of CVE-2021-44228, and the potential impact of the […]
AWS – Amazon Lookout for Vision now supports visual inspection of product defects at the edge
Amazon Lookout for Vision is excited to preview support for anomaly detection at the edge. Starting today, you can use your trained Amazon Lookout for Vision models on the edge by deploying these models to a hardware device of your choice. Your trained models can be deployed on any NVIDIA Jetson edge appliance or x86 compute […]