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Azure – Public preview: GraphQL passthrough support in Azure API Management
GraphQL is increasingly seen as more efficient, flexible, and powerful way of working with APIs, as they have tremendous benefits such as faster performance, longer API call limit threshold, and lesser time retrieving data. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Native support for WebSocket APIs
Native support for WebSocket APIs is now available across all pricing plans of Azure API Management except Consumption. This will help you manage WebSocket APIs along with REST APIs in Azure API Management. Read More for the details.
Azure – Logic Apps Standard Plan updates in general availability
Logic Apps Standard was released at Ignite 2020 and since then we have added a lot of features to enable better enterprise integration between mission critical systems on cloud, on premises, and in a hybrid way with runtime available on Azure, Azure Arc and locally. This post includes capabilities that are now generally available. Read […]
AWS – Amazon Time Sync Service now makes it easier to generate and compare timestamps
Amazon Time Sync Service now allows you to easily generate and compare timestamps from Amazon EC2 instances with ClockBound, an open source daemon and library. This information is valuable to determine order and consistency for events and transactions across EC2 instances, independent from the instances’ respective geographic locations. ClockBound calculates your Amazon EC2 instance’s clock […]
GCP – R+F accelerates data insights with Confluent and Google Cloud
Rodan and Fields (R+F) focuses a lot of time and energy working to empower its 300,000 Independent Consultants and provide them with the tools they need to to run their businesses successfully. One of these tools, the R+F Solution Tool, allows R+F Consultant’s to provide personalized, one-on-one recommendations to customers regarding the best Rodan and […]
GCP – Zero trust workload security with GKE, Traffic Director, and CA Service
At the core of a zero trust approach to security is the idea that trust needs to be established via multiple mechanisms and continuously verified. Internally, Google has applied this thinking to the end-to-end process of running production systems and protecting workloads on cloud-native infrastructure, an approach we call BeyondProd. Establishing and verifying trust in […]
GCP – Access to legacy applications has never been easier with Chrome
In order to keep businesses running, organizations require uninterrupted access to business critical applications. While most of these applications can be accessed through a modern browser, others require a specific legacy browser, which can add extra work for IT teams to try and protect users in older, less secure browsers. Many enterprises use Chrome’s Legacy […]
AWS – AWS Graviton2 based T4g instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 T4g instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. T4g instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver up to 40% better price performance over T3 instances. These instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as […]
GCP – Google delivers 5G network slicing capabilities for enterprises
Building on the recent releases of the Android 12 operating system and Google Distributed Cloud, Google is paving the way for communication service providers (CSPs) as well as enterprises to deliver enterprise applications and services over 5G network slices, for enhanced application security, reliability, and performance. 5G network slicing enables virtual mobile networks to be […]
GCP – As shoppers turn to online ordering, Chrome OS and PaperCut have enabled Australia’s BIG W stores to uplevel printing
Editor’s note:Today’s post is by Steven Kernahan, Portfolio/Solution Owner for Australia’s Woolworths Group and its 176 BIG W department stores across Australia. In collaboration with Woolworths Group IT, BIG W X improved in-store processes for printing delivery and online pickup, using Chrome OS and PaperCut software. When BIG W’s customers embraced online pickup and delivery […]