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GCP – Empowering non-profit New Incentives with no-code
As people everywhere continue to adapt to new ways of working and collaborating, many trends that might have seemed a decade away in 2019, have cemented themselves as today’s blueprints for success. We’ve seen firsthand the acceleration in demand for technology that lends itself to agile development without compromising power, ease or security and governance. […]

AWS – Amazon EMR 6.4 release version now supports Apache Spark 3.1.2
Amazon EMR 6.4 release version now supports Apache Spark 3.1.2 and provides runtime improvements with Amazon EMR Runtime for Apache Spark. Amazon EMR 6.4 provides Presto runtime improvements for PrestoDB 0.254, and runtime improvements for Apache Hive 3.1.2 when you use AWS Glue Data Catalog for your metastore. Read More for the details.

GCP – Next Reaction: New Data Cloud launches
At Google Cloud Next, we’ve announced several new data cloud launches that go a long way in helping technical practitioners, like you, derive business value from their data. In this post, we’ll provide an overview of what was announced, why it matters for you and how you can get started using these services in your […]

GCP – Next Reaction: Making multicloud easier for all
If you’re like me, tracking all the news coming out of Google Cloud Next can be a bit overwhelming at times in a good way. There is just so much exciting stuff happening. So, in order to help us both out a bit I sat down to capture some of the key announcements that were […]

GCP – Next Reaction: Features to reduce IT carbon emissions and build climate-related solutions
Climate technology strategies are becoming increasingly important. A Google-commissioned study by IDG shows that 90% of IT departments are making sustainability a priority; and with the advances in machine learning, many organizations are also increasingly interested in building climate solutions whether it’s using geo-spatial data or predictive maintenance. This is why we are happy to […]

GCP – Next Reaction: Monitor your conversations, get started with CCAI Insights
In this year’s NEXT session: AI103 Using CCAI insights to better understand your customers, a new conversational AI tool has been introduced, CCAI Insights. With Contact Center AI Insights, business stakeholders and QA compliance teams can analyze and monitor customer service interactions and patterns in their contact center data. It gives businesses insights into the […]

GCP – Next Reaction: Security and zero-trust announcements
Trillions in Cybercrime? Phishing, spam, malware and devious websites? Oh my! I’ve talked a lot about Zero Trust security in the past, and the meme means many things to many people. For Google we want to make sure that security-across your cloud workloads, on-premises systems, collaboration tools and devices-is reliable and invisible. And today’s announcements […]

AWS – AWS Outposts adds new CloudWatch dimension for capacity monitoring
Today we are announcing the availability of a new Amazon CloudWatch dimension for metrics in the AWS Outposts namespace. CloudWatch dimensions are unique identifiers for metrics that allow customers to search and filter results. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports Apache Flink v1.13
You can now build and run stream processing applications using Apache Flink version 1.13 in Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. Apache Flink v1.13 provides enhancements to the Table/SQL API, improved interoperability between the Table and DataStream APIs, stateful operations using the Python Datastream API, features to analyze application performance, an exactly-once JDBC sink, and more. With […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaTailor adds prefetch ad support for personalized ad insertion
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports prefetch ad requests for personalized ad insertion. Prefetching manages the request of ads in advance of ad breaks, increasing the time an ad decision server (ADS) has to respond. Read More for the details.