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GCP – Going beyond BI with the Looker Marketplace
For many businesses, business intelligence (BI) consists of data visualizations and dashboards. The problem is that dashboards are not the answer to every data need. Many users today are looking for rich data-experiences that are immediately accessible and seamlessly part of their day to day work. Surfacing insights in collaboration apps like Google Chat and […]
GCP – Solving business problems with data
Data science can be applied to business problems to improve practices and help to strengthen customer satisfaction. In this blog, we address how the addition of Looker extends the value of your Google Cloud investments to help you understand your customer journey, unlock value from first-party data, and optimize existing cloud infrastructure. Data is […]
GCP – Bring governance and trust to everyone with Looker’s universal semantic model
As digital transformation accelerates, the data available to organizations about their products, customers, and markets is growing exponentially. Turning this data into insights will be critical to innovating and growing. Furthermore, the capacity to make data-driven decisions must be pervasive in organizations, accessible to a broad range of employees, and simple enough to apply to […]
Azure – General availability: ExpressRoute now supports Azure Virtual Desktop Shortpath RDP over Private Peering
ExpressRoute enables direct connectivity between on-premises and Microsoft global network. You can connect to virtual machines and private endpoints defined in an Azure virtual network with private peering. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Build and deploy full-stack .NET 6.0 apps with Azure Static Web Apps
Azure Static Web Apps now supports building and deploying .NET 6 Blazor WebAssembly and Azure Functions apps. Read More for the details.
Azure – .NET 6.0 in Azure Functions is now generally available
Both the in-process and isolated models are supported in .NET 6.0 Azure Functions. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure Functions runtime 4.0
Version 4.0 of the Azure Functions runtime supports .NET 6. It also supports Node.js, Python, Java, PowerShell, and other languages using custom handlers. Read More for the details.
Azure – PowerShell on Linux SKU in Azure Functions is now available in public preview
You can now develop Azure Functions PowerShell apps locally and deploy them to Azure Functions on Linux OS. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Backup adds support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
AWS Backup announces support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), allowing you to centrally manage data protection of your DocumentDB clusters along with other supported AWS services for database, storage, and compute. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Polly now offers Neural Text-to-Speech voices in Spanish and Italian
Amazon Polly, a service that turns text into speech (TTS), launches 2 new neural TTS voices. You can now use Lucia for Castilian Spanish and Bianca for Italian. With this launch, we now offer 22 neural TTS voices across 12 languages. With these voices, you can create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories […]