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GCP – 8 ways Google Cloud elevates agility and security for financial services
The COVID-19 pandemic brought dramatic changes to the financial services industry. Already under pressure from nimble young fintechs to modernize, established banks and insurers were undergoing incremental digital transformation. But in 2020, they hit the gas pedal. Branches closed and remote work became the norm. Almost overnight, employees needed secure remote access to corporate systems, […]
GCP – Image search with natural language queries
This post shows how to build an image search utility using natural language queries. Our aim is to use different GCP services to demonstrate this. At the core of our project is OpenAI’s CLIP model. It makes use of two encoders – one for images and one for texts. Each encoder is trained to learn […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Backup now supports Archive Tier for backups of SQL Server in Azure VMs
Azure Backup now provides the capability to move long term retention(LTR) recovery points to low-cost archive tier for SQL Server for Azure VM. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Storage Gateway now supports Quest NetVault Backup 13 on Tape Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway now supports Quest NetVault Backup 13 on Tape Gateway, enabling you to backup and archive data from Quest NetVault Backup to AWS without changing your backup workflows. With this announcement, Tape Gateway supports Quest NetVault Backup 13 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 or Microsoft Windows Server 2016. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift simplifies the use of JDBC/ODBC with authentication profile
Amazon Redshift now supports an authentication profile that enables administrators to centrally store client-side properties required to connect Redshift data warehouse using JDBC/ODBC/Python drivers. You can create an authentication profile by specifying a JSON file with the name and value for the required client and extended properties. End-users such as analysts, developers, and data engineers […]
Azure – General availability: Web Application Firewall (WAF) geomatch custom rules on Application Gateway
Try geomatch custom rules to block or allow traffic based on geo-location, now generally available for Azure Web Application Firewall on Application Gateway. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Web Application Firewall (WAF) bot protection on Application Gateway
Try the bot protection rule set alongside your OWASP core rule set (CRS), now generally available for Azure Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Adds Support for USB YubiKey Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) Authentication on PCoIP Windows WorkSpaces
Amazon WorkSpaces introduces USB redirection support for YubiKey Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) on PCoIP Windows WorkSpaces with WorkSpaces Windows client app. The feature is intended for customers who need to perform YubiKey U2F authentication to access web-based services from their WorkSpaces. Read More for the details.
AWS – Agents can now set their next status while still on an active contact in Amazon Connect
Agents in Amazon Connect can now set their next status while still on a contact, enabling seamless transition from work to offline or lunch. This enables agents to indicate that they are about to go to lunch, and don’t want to be routed new contacts, while finishing up ongoing work. Once the agent has wrapped […]
GCP – Monitor models for training-serving skew with Vertex AI
This blog post focuses on how Vertex AI enables one of the core aspects of MLOps: monitoring models deployed in production for training-serving skew. Vertex AI, a managed platform that allows companies to accelerate the deployment and maintenance of artificial intelligence (AI) models. Here we will describe how Vertex AI makes it easy to: Turn […]