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Azure – Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 60 – January 2022
Review the improvements and fixes provided in Update Rollup 60. Read More for the details.
GCP – Troubleshooting application performance on Cloud Spanner with OpenCensus
This tutorial shows how to configure client-side metrics recording in your Cloud Spanner workloads using OpenCensus. While Cloud Spanner surfaces a number of helpful server-side metrics, applications can realize the added benefits of collecting metrics emitted by the Cloud Spanner client library. For example, only client-side metrics include session and transaction related information. These OpenCensus […]
GCP – Getting Started with Google Cloud Logging Python v3.0.0
We’re excited to announce the release of a major update to the Google Cloud Python logging library. v3.0.0 makes it even easier for Python developers to send and read logs from Google Cloud, providing real-time insights into what is happening in your application. If you’re a Python developer working with Google Cloud, now is a […]
Azure – Private preview: AKS cluster persistent volume backup
AKS persistent volume backup provides backup and restore ability for the persistent volumes of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Regional deployments for all new and existing IoT Central applications
All previously created IoT Central applications in a geography are now mapped to standard Azure region. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally Available: Recovery points extended to 15 days with Azure Site Recovery
The extended recovery points give you flexibility in how you want to manage recovery points and the ability to recover older recovery points if you missed detecting them. Read More for the details.
GCP – Scaling read-only workloads on Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL with HAProxy
Cloud SQL is Google Cloud’s fully managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server workloads. Cloud SQL enables customers to implement horizontal scaling of read-only workloads using read replicas. In this blog post, we will demonstrate a single-endpoint read scaling and load balancing solution using Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and HAProxy, with automatic […]
GCP – Measure and maximize the value of Data Science and AI teams
Investing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) can bring a competitive advantage to your organization. If you’re in charge of an AI or Data Science team, you’ll want to measure and maximize the value that you’re providing. Here is some advice from our years of experience in the field. A checklist to embark on a project: As […]
GCP – Protecting customers against cryptomining threats with VM Threat Detection in Security Command Center
As organizations move to the cloud, VM-based architectures continue to make up a significant portion of compute-centric workloads. To help ensure strong protection for these deployments, we are thrilled to announce a public preview of our newest layer of threat detection in Security Command Center (SCC): Virtual Machine Threat Detection (VMTD). VMTD is a first-to-market […]
GCP – Google Cloud moves Cloud Client Libraries for Node.js support for version 10 to Maintenance
On March 31, 2022, Node.js 10 will be going into maintenance mode for the Google Cloud Node.js SDK. When doing so, libraries will have their major version increased, in accordance with Semantic Versioning. Motivation Node.js LTS versions have a 30 month lifecycle, during which time they receive critical bug and security updates: Image by Node.js. […]