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AWS – AWS WAF introduces AWS WAF Fraud Control – Account Takeover Prevention for protecting your login page against credential stuffing attacks
AWS WAF announces the launch of AWS WAF Fraud Control – Account Takeover Prevention to protect your application’s login page against credential stuffing attacks, brute force attempts, and other anomalous login activities. Account Takeover Prevention enables you to proactively stop account takeover attempts at the network edge. With Account Takeover Prevention, you can prevent unauthorized […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere version 22.02 expected on Feb 28, 2022
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period for 22.02 provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing. Read More for the details.

GCP – Free your mainframe data with data-first digitization
For many enterprises, the venerable mainframe is home to decades’ worth of data about the company’s customers, processes and operations. And it goes without saying that the business would like access to that mainframe data — to report on it, to analyze it with big data analysis tools, or to use it as the basis […]

GCP – Data modernization with Google Cloud and MongoDB Atlas
What does modernization mean? As an IT leader or architect, you may notice that your software architecture is encountering performance issues. You may be considering moving your datastore from a mainframe or a traditional relational database (RDBMS) to a more modern database to take advantage of advanced analytics, scale at a faster rate, and opportunities […]

GCP – Control access to microservices with gRPC and Traffic Director
We are excited to announce Traffic Director’s general availability of client authorization by proxyless gRPC services. This release, in conjunction with Traffic Director’s capability for managing mutual TLS (mTLS) credentials for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), enables customers to centrally manage access between workloads using Traffic Director. With the new authorization support, you can explicitly permit […]

GCP – Add intelligence to your document processing with Google’s Enterprise Knowledge Graph
Google Cloud introduced Document AI to automate document processing and to streamline workflows with state-of-the-art machine learning models. With the deep neural networks, the models generalize the learning from seeing hundreds of thousands variations of the documents. But when information is missing or ambiguous on a document – like a missing address or entity name […]

GCP – Supercharge your event-driven architecture with new 2nd gen Cloud Functions
Today, we are introducing Cloud Functions (2nd gen), Google Cloud’s next-generation Functions-as-a-Service product. This next generation version of Cloud Functions comes with an advanced feature set giving you more powerful infrastructure, advanced control over performance and scalability, more control around the functions runtime and triggers from over 90 event sources. Further, the infrastructure is powered […]

GCP – How to build collaboration equity in your hybrid workplace
Like many businesses around the world, Google is trying to combine on-site and off-site work into an efficient hybrid model. And like most businesses, we’re also figuring out how to get it right. As we grow our vision for the best possible hybrid workplace, one theme consistently emerges: the need for collaboration equity. Collaboration equity […]

Azure – Public preview: OCR supports 164 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision
Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with support for new languages including Arabic, Hindi, and other regional languages with the same writing scripts. It also extends handwritten OCR support for Japanese and Korean, along with enhancements for handwritten dates, names, and amounts and general […]
GCP – To User-Friendly SQL with L❤️VE from BigQuery
Thirty five years ago, SQL-86, the first SQL standard, came into our world, published as an ANSI standard in 1986 and adopted by the International Standards Organization (ISO) in 1987. On this Valentine’s Day, we, in BigQuery, reaffirm our love and commitment to user-friendly SQL through a whole slew of new SQL features that we’re […]