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GCP – Compliance Engineering – Continuous Compliance GCP case studies
Our previous article provided tools and techniques to transform your productionalization process and make it ready for Cloud workloads. In this post, we will cover technical examples of GCP controls and how it can help your organization maintain your security and compliance posture in GCP. In comparison to on-prem infrastructure, GCP is a highly integrated […]

GCP – Optimize your system design using Architecture Framework Principles
To help our customers on their path to success with Google Cloud, we published the Google Cloud Architecture Framework – a set of canonical best practices for building and operating workloads that are secure, efficient, resilient, high performing, and cost effective. Today, we’re diving deeper into the Architecture Framework System Design pillar, including the four […]

GCP – Easy as Pie Serverless Hackathon
Over the past year, serverless application development has seen tremendous interest. The number of opportunities that show up on job boards showcase how critical this skill has become. It’s not surprising that at Google, we have seen the use of Serverless products increase by 4X over the past year. Particularly, as developers have moved away […]

AWS – AWS Direct Connect announces two new locations in Indonesia
Today, AWS announced the opening of two new Direct Connect locations in Jakarta, Indonesia. AWS customers in Indonesia can now establish dedicated network connections from their Indonesia premises to AWS to gain high-performance, secure access to other AWS Region (except Regions in China). With the announcement of Direct Connect locations in Indonesia, the Direct Connect […]

GCP – Improving the speed and security of your cloud deployments
For many of those building in the cloud, speed and security of deployments are amongst their top priorities. At times these goals can seem at odds with each other, especially if security guidance is distributed, written more as reference than opinion, and lacking in tooling for actual implementation in your environment. But they don’t have […]

Azure – Azure HPC Cache now generally available in Germany West Central and US West 3
New regional availability of Azure HPC Cache expands access to low-latency compute. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure HPC – CycleCloud 8.2.1 is now generally available
The new release includes Slurm and VMSS improvements as well as seven new bug fixes. Read More for the details.

GCP – Small footprint, big impact: running cloud-connected Kubernetes at the edge
In this blog post I describe the ‘Edge’ profile for Anthos on bare metal. I compare this new option against the default profile. I also introduced the recently published “Rolling out clusters on the edge at scale with Anthos on bare metal” guide that walks you through the steps to install Anthos on bare metal […]

GCP – Use your favorite DevOps and security solutions with GKE Autopilot out of the box
Organizations that are modernizing with the cloud are increasingly looking for ways to simplify and automate container orchestration with high levels of security, reliability and scalability. GKE Autopilot, which became generally available earlier this year, is a revolutionary mode of operations for managed Kubernetes that makes this possible, reducing the need for hands-on cluster management […]
GCP – Better data for better AI: new speech datasets and benchmarks for data
AI researchers and engineers need better data to enable better AI solutions. The quality of an AI solution is determined by both the learning algorithm (such as a deep-neural network model) and the datasets used to train and evaluate that algorithm. Historically, AI research has focused much more on algorithms than datasets, despite their vital […]