Welcome to above the clouds
AWS – Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now offers real-time streaming for higher scale and low latency scenarios
Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now supports real-time streaming that helps businesses access Contact Lens analytics in real-time, eliminating the need to constantly make requests from existing Contact Lens API with rate limitations. The real-time streaming also offers additional data segments that consist of sentence-by-sentence transcripts for low latency requirements. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: On-demand capacity reservation with Azure Site Recovery safeguards VMs failover
Integrating Site Recovery with capacity reservation to reserve compute capacity in the disaster recovery region and use that for failover. Read More for the details.
GCP – How to Scale and Secure your Cloud Management for Defense Applications
Department of Defense (DoD) organizations worldwide have scalability, performance, and usability constraints across their cloud access points due to legacy networking architectures. These difficulties, paired with increased security threats and broader calls for innovation across DoD, are driving agency leaders to embrace a new kind of networking infrastructure that offers the latest in both existing […]
GCP – Clouds in the cloud: Weather forecasting in Google Cloud
Weather forecasting and climate modeling are two of the world’s most computationally complex and demanding tasks. Further, they’re extremely time-sensitive and in high demand — everyone from weekend travelers to large-scale industrial farming operators wants up-to-date weather predictions. To provide timely and meaningful predictions, weather forecasters usually rely on high performance computing (HPC) clusters hosted […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure Batch supports Spot Virtual Machines
Azure Batch supports Spot Virtual Machine’s in user-subscription mode and is offered at a significantly reduced price compared with dedicated virtual machines. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: On-demand capacity reservations
On-demand capacity reservations let you reserve compute capacity for one or more VM size(s) in an Azure region or availability zone for any length of time. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Bastion native client support
Azure Bastion native client support brings you the ability to connect to target VMs from the command line and log in using your Azure Active Directory credentials. Read More for the details.
GCP – Use Cloud Run “always-on” CPU allocation for background work
Last fall, the Cloud Run team announced a new feature allowing operators to keep a container instance’s CPU fully-allocated outside of the standard request cycle. By default, Cloud Run instances are only allocated CPU during request processing as well as during container startup and shutdown as per the instance lifecycle. With this release, users can […]
GCP – Voice trading in the cloud — digital transformation of private wires
With our experience working with financial services customers, we recently partnered with a large interdealer broker to co-innovate on the modernization of their core voice trading infrastructure. Their motivation was simple: they wanted traders to be able to work remotely, make it easy to onboard new locations with resilience and scale, and to enable new […]
Azure – Public preview: Azure Percept DK March (2202) software update
The Azure Percept March update includes fixes related to security. Read More for the details.
