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GCP – How data and AI can help media companies better personalize; and what to watch out for
Media companies now have access to an ever-expanding pool of data from the digitally connected consumer. And over the past two years, as content consumption and audience behaviors have shifted in response to the world around us, direct-to-consumer has only accelerated. As media organizations pivot from third-party to first-party data, this presents challenges with the […]
GCP – Easier administration and management of BigQuery with Resource Charts and Slot Estimator
As customers grow their analytical workloads and footprint on BigQuery, their monitoring and management requirements evolve – they want to be able to manage their environments at scale, take action in context. They also desire capacity management capabilities to optimize their BigQuery environments. With our BigQuery Administrator Hub capabilities, customers can now better manage BigQuery […]
GCP – Unlock the power of change data capture and replication with new, serverless Datastream, now GA
We’re excited to announce that Datastream, Google Cloud’s serverless change data capture (CDC) and replication service, is now generally available. Datastream allows you to synchronize data across disparate databases, storage systems, and applications reliably and with minimal latency to support real-time analytics, database replication, and event-driven architectures. You can easily and seamlessly deliver change streams […]
GCP – Creating a prediction market on Google Cloud
Predictive analytics has long been a source of strategic advantage for innovative companies. High-performing firms use strong predictive analytics to predict future outcomes more accurately, plan for unknown events, and discover product and customer opportunities. One challenge with predictive analytics is producing the historical data to power the predictions. Some of the most important questions […]
GCP – Join Cloud Learn to build your Google Cloud skills at no cost, regardless of experience level
We recently announced a new goal of equipping more than 40 million people with Google Cloud skills. To help achieve this goal, we’re hosting Cloud Learn from Dec. 8-9 (for those in Europe, the Middle East, or Africa, the event will be from Dec. 9-10 and for those in Japan, you can access the event […]
Azure – General availability: New capabilities in Network Watcher Diagnostic tools to evaluate AVNM Security rules
Through updates to Network Watcher Diagnostic tools, you now have the ability to view and evaluate AVNM security rules in addition to the existing support of NSG security rules. Read More for the details.
GCP – Vertex AI NAS: higher accuracy and lower latency for complex ML models
Vertex AI launched with the premise “one AI platform, every ML tool you need.” Let’s talk about how Vertex AI streamlines modeling universally for a broad range of use cases. The overall purpose of Vertex AI is to simplify modeling so that enterprises can fast track their innovation, accelerate time to market, and ultimately increase […]
AWS – AWS Backup adds support for VMware workloads
AWS Backup now allows you to centrally protect VMware workloads, on premises and in the cloud as VMware CloudTM on AWS, helping you meet your business and regulatory compliance needs. You can now use a single policy in AWS Backup to centrally protect your hybrid VMware environments alongside the 12 AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Glacier storage class is now Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval; storage price reduced by 10% and bulk retrievals are now free
The Amazon S3 Glacier storage class is now named Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval, and now includes free bulk retrievals in addition to a 10% price reduction, making it optimized for use cases such as backup and disaster recovery. S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval is now even more cost-effective, and the free bulk retrievals make it […]
AWS – Announcing preview of AWS Backup for Amazon S3
Today, we are announcing the public preview of AWS Backup for Amazon S3. You can now create a single policy in AWS Backup to automate the protection of application data stored in S3 alone or alongside 11 other AWS services for storage, compute, and database. Using AWS Backup’s seamless integration with AWS Organizations, you can create […]