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GCP – GKE best practices: Create a cost-optimized cluster in just a few clicks
No one wants to spend more on compute infrastructure than they have to—and that includes your Kubernetes platform. With Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), the easiest way to stand up a cost-optimized cluster is to choose GKE Autopilot. However, some organizations may not be ready to use Autopilot yet. For them, there’s our guide, Best practices […]

GCP – Bringing Kubernetes’ goodness to Windows Server apps with Anthos
Today, many applications in organizations’ data centers run on Windows Server. Modernizing these traditional Windows apps onto Kubernetes promises a host of benefits: a consistent platform across environments, better portability, scalability, availability, simplified management and speed of deployment, just to name a few. But how? Rewriting traditional .NET applications to run on Linux with .NET […]

GCP – How Cloud Bigtable helps Ravelin detect retail fraud with low latency
Editor’s note: Today we are hearing from Jono MacDougall , Principal Software Engineer at Ravelin. Ravelin delivers market-leading online fraud detection and payment acceptance solutions for online retailers. To help us meet the scaling, throughput, and latency demands of our growing roster of large-scale clients, we migrated to Google Cloud and its suite of managed […]

GCP – New Paper: Assuring Compliance in the Cloud
Cloud transformation and the adoption of modern DevOps technology presents both opportunities and challenges for IT compliance functions. With DevOps style application development, the feedback loop for developers and engineers is much tighter than with traditional application development pipelines, enabling speed and agility of application release cycles. While speedy CI/CD is a critical advantage of […]

GCP – Registration is open for Google Cloud Next: October 12–14
Mark your calendars – registration is now open for Google Cloud Next, October 12–14, 2021. Like Google Cloud, this year’s flagship event is designed to be open and flexible, and give you the freedom of choice to create the experience that’s best for you. We’ve designed Next ’21 as a customizable digital adventure to allow […]

GCP – From print to voice and beyond: How Toyota is transforming the car manual
Over the decades, technology has helped us organize large amounts of physical information in ways that are streamlined, efficient, and easily accessible. Rows upon rows of encyclopedias are no longer needed; simply punch in or speak a query into Google Search and find numerous results at your fingertips. There’s no need to haul around cases […]

GCP – Accelerating Government’s Zero Trust Journey
In May, the White House issued an Executive Order aiming to improve the nation’s cybersecurity defenses and requiring US Federal agencies to develop plans to implement Zero Trust architectures in alignment with National Institute of Standards and Technology National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidance. This Executive Order also calls on agencies to accelerate […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.07
The 21.07 update includes heap memory allocation tracking, time sync changes, and support for service principles. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Athena announces data source connector for Power BI
With the July release of Microsoft Power BI Desktop, you can now create reports and dashboards using a built in, Microsoft-certified connector for Amazon Athena. This release makes it possible for AWS customers using Power BI for business intelligence to leverage their Amazon S3 data lake and federated data sources to analyze, visualize, and share […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Adds Colombia Phone Numbers
Amazon Connect now supports claiming local toll-free and direct inward dial phone numbers in Colombia in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. These new local telephony services enable you to support end-customers in Colombia. Read More for the details.