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GCP – Yugabyte Cloud offers database scale AND transactional consistency
Peanut Butter and Jelly. Infinity Gems and the Infinity Gauntlet. Server Virtualization and Shared Storage. Holidays and Cookies (ok, maybe that’s just a personal preference). We all love to find a combination of products, foods or technologies that effortlessly fit together to make our lives better. And when it comes to technology, there’s nothing better […]

GCP – 3 ways Dataflow is delivering 50%+ productivity boost and cost savings to customers
In our conversations with technology leaders about data-driven transformation using Google Data Cloud – industry’s leading unified data and AI solution – , one important topic is incorporating continuous intelligence to move from answering questions such as “What has happened? to questions like “What is happening?” and “What might happen?”. The core to this evolution […]

GCP – Filestore Enterprise: File-sharing done right for SAP customers
Google Cloud’s ability to raise the bar on SAP application productivity and performance is an important source of value for our enterprise customers who run SAP environments. And now, we’ve got another success story to share from Google Cloud’s focus on SAP: giving customers the ability to leverage Google Cloud Filestore Enterprise as a file-sharing […]

GCP – Lift and shift: Lessons for Video Media Applications
When moving software applications from on-premise hardware to the cloud, it often “just works,” but it’s never guaranteed. This is especially the case for applications that are hardware intensive. This blog post examines what happened when a media company took software for real-time video broadcasts into the cloud. We’ll share how we, Google Cloud, collaborated […]

GCP – Ocwen becomes a cloud-first company by adopting Chrome OS
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Parveen Chander Aery, CIO, and Rishi Gupta, Head of Global IT Infrastructure, of Ocwen, a provider of residential and commercial mortgage loan services. The U.S.-based company adopted Chrome OS devices to help global contact center teams work productively together. We’re used to deployments of new technology taking a lot of […]

AWS – Incident Manager from AWS Systems Manager now supports AWS PrivateLink
Incident Manager, from AWS Systems Manager, now supports AWS PrivateLink, providing direct access to incident data via managed VPC endpoints within your virtual private network. AWS Systems Manager is the operations hub for your AWS applications and resources, providing a secure end-to-end management solution for hybrid cloud environments. To learn more about Incident Manager, visit our […]

GCP – How EdTechs create a data culture and roll out a data platform
With a data strategy and data warehouse in place, EdTechs are building a data culture that helps everyone – from educators and administrators, to employees in marketing and accounting – make more informed decisions with their data. So how do you build a data culture in your organization? It starts by asking these questions: Are […]

AWS – IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows you to create IPv6-only subnets in your dual-stack VPCs and launch EC2 instances built on Nitro System in these subnets in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon Forecast
Starting today, AWS customers can use AWS PrivateLink to access Amazon Forecast services from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the Internet to connect to Amazon Forecast. With this launch, customers can also gain additional access control of the VPC endpoints through […]
Azure – Public preview: Azure Bastion now supports file transfer via the native client
Azure Bastion offers support for file transfer between your target VM and local computer using Bastion and a native RDP or SSH client. Read More for the details.