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GCP – How MEDITECH adds advanced security to its cloud-based healthcare solutions with Cloud IDS
MEDITECH develops electronic health record (EHR) systems solutions that enhance the interactions of physicians and clinicians with patients. The company empowers healthcare organizations large and small to deliver secure, cost-effective patient care. MEDITECH’s intuitive and mobile offerings include software for health information management, patient care and patient safety, emergency department management, oncology, genomics, population health, […]
GCP – From data chaos to data driven: Turning data into education intelligence
One billion learners suddenly shifted to online learning in 2020. This shift, affecting both educational institutions and workplaces, is here to stay. HolonIQ projects that the Education Technology (EdTech) market will triple by 2025, with global spending reaching $404 billion. Another two billion learners will use digital learning services by 2050. As a result, all […]
GCP – Join Google Cloud Research Innovators to accelerate scientific projects
Researchers using Google Cloud are invited to apply for the second cohort of the Research Innovators program. In December 2020 Google Cloud launched the Research Innovators program to help established and next generation researchers advance scientific breakthroughs through the latest cloud technologies. By providing access to Google Cloud and Google specialists, the program seeks to […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager announces new features for Session Manager to support maximum session timeout and annotate reason for starting the session
Today, AWS Systems Manager announces new features for Session Manager to support maximum session timeout and annotate the reason for starting a session. AWS Systems Manager is the operational hub for AWS, that provides a unified user interface to track and resolve operational issues across AWS applications from a central place. AWS Systems Manager Session […]
AWS – AWS Glue streaming ETL jobs now integrates with the AWS Glue Schema Registry
AWS Glue streaming extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs can now read from AWS Glue Data Catalog tables created using the AWS Glue Schema Registry. With streaming ETL in AWS Glue, you can set up continuous ingestion pipelines to prepare streaming data on the fly and make it available for analysis in seconds. The AWS […]
Azure – Public preview availability of Virtual Machine restore points
Take multi-disk consistent point in time snapshots of all the disks attached to a VM for backup and disaster recovery purposes. Read More for the details.
Azure – India Central Availability Zones now generally available
Azure Availability Zones are now generally available in India Central. These three new zones provide customers with options for additional resiliency and tolerance to infrastructure impact. Read More for the details.
GCP – Tokopedia’s journey to creating a Customer Data Platform (CDP) on Google Cloud Platform
Founded in 2009, Tokopedia is an ecommerce platform that enables millions of Indonesian to transact online. As the company grows, there is an urgent need to better understand customer’s behavior in order to improve the customer’s experience across the platform. Now, Tokopedia has more than 100 million Monthly Active Users and the demography and preferences […]
GCP – DevOps and CI/CD on Google Cloud explained
What is CI/CD? Continuous Integration (CI), at its core, is about getting feedback early and often, which makes it possible to identify and correct problems early in the development process. With CI, you integrate your work frequently, often multiple times a day, instead of waiting for one large integration later on. Each integration is verified […]
GCP – Postmortems at Loon: a guiding force for rapid development
Founded by Google SRE alumni, it is no surprise that Loon’s Production Engineering/SRE team instituted a culture of blameless postmortems that became a key feature of Loon’s approach to incident response. Blameless postmortems originated as an aerospace practice in the mid-20th century, so it was particularly fitting that they came full circle to be used […]