Welcome to above the clouds
GCP – Anthos Config Management: Enforcing the CIS Benchmark with Policy Controller
Many companies were forced to accelerate their digital transformation by rolling out new apps and services to help them adapt to the disruption caused by COVID-19. Kubernetes played a vital role to address this challenge as organizations around the globe focused on containerizing their applications in production. Although 84% of global security decision makers report […]
GCP – Top 10 takeaways from Looker’s 2021 JOIN@Home conference
JOIN@Home was an incredible celebration of the achievements that the Looker community made in the last year, and I was proud to be a part of it. Prominent leaders in the data world shared their successes, tips, and plans for the future. In the spirit of keeping the learning alive, I summarized the top two […]
GCP – Carrefour Belgium: Driving a seamless digital experience with SAP on Google Cloud
Stijn Stabel’s first days as CTO of Carrefour Belgium were… challenging. “The data center was out of date with a roof that leaked,” he recalls. Not quite what one would expect from the eighth-largest retailer in the world. Carrefour is a household name in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, operating over 12,000 hypermarkets, groceries, […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Feature Store connector for Apache Spark for easy batch data ingestion
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is announcing a new enhancement, a connector for Apache Spark that makes batch data ingestion easier for customers. Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is a fully managed, purpose-built repository to store, update, retrieve, and share machine learning (ML) model features. There are various ways to ingest data into SageMaker Feature Store including […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure Policy support for Azure Site Recovery
You can now use Azure Policy to enable Azure Site Recovery for your VMs at scale and ensure organizational standards. Read More for the details.
AWS – EMR Studio is now upgraded to JupyterLab v3.1.4
Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug big data and analytics applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. With EMR Studio, you get fully managed notebooks based on JupyterLab. JupyterLab is the next-generation web-based user interface for open source Project […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure HPC – CycleCloud 7.9.10
New release for Azure CycleCloud 7-9-10 Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure HPC – CycleCloud 8.1.0
Check the list of improvements and resolved issues include in this release. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure HPC – CycleCloud 8.2.0
The 8.2 release expands 3rd-party scheduler support and includes significant improvements and bug fixes. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure HPC – CycleCloud 8.1.1
This release includes a considerable list of resolved issues and a retired feature. Read More for the details.