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GCP – SAP on Google Cloud: Set up your network for a seamless deployment
SAP forms the critical backbone of thousands of enterprises, supporting critical business functions such as finance, supply chain, warehouse management, and more. Google Cloud provides a highly scalable and resilient infrastructure to run such workloads and offers tools, such as Smart Analytics and Machine Learning that can accelerate your organization’s digital transformation. In fact, a […]
GCP – More than just relational data at scale with Spanner’s new JSON data type
JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is the format that developers rely on for hierarchical or semi-structured data. As a subset of JavaScript, JSON’s popularity has been driven by explosive growth of rich, interactive experiences in the browser and scripting environments like Node.js. Cloud Spanner’s new JSON data type allows you to extend your relational data […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a storage service that allows customers to launch and run complete, fully managed ONTAP file systems in the cloud for the first time. ONTAP is NetApp’s file system technology that has traditionally powered on-premises network-attached storage (NAS) and provides a widely […]
AWS – Amazon EBS direct APIs now supports creating 64 TB EBS Snapshots
Amazon EBS direct APIs now supports creating 64 TB EBS Snapshots directly from any block storage data, including on-premises data. With this new capability, customers can use EBS Snapshots for disaster recovery of their largest on-premises workloads and achieve business continuity in AWS at lower costs. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points accelerate access to replicated data sets by up to 60%
Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points accelerate performance by up to 60% when accessing data sets that are replicated across multiple AWS Regions. Based on AWS Global Accelerator, S3 Multi-Region Access Points consider factors like network congestion and the location of the requesting application to dynamically route your requests over the AWS network to the lowest latency […]
AWS – Amazon Elastic File System introduces Intelligent-Tiering to automatically optimize storage costs
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) now supports Intelligent-Tiering, a new capability that makes it easier for you to optimize costs for shared file storage, even when access patterns change. EFS Intelligent-Tiering is designed to help you achieve the right price and performance blend for your application file data by placing your file data in a […]
AWS – AWS Transfer Family simplifies managed file transfer workflows with low code automation
AWS Transfer Family now supports managed workflows that makes it easy for you to create, execute, and monitor post upload processing for file transfers over SFTP, FTPS, and FTP for Amazon S3 and Amazon EFS. Using this feature, you can save time with low code automation to coordinate all the necessary tasks such as copying […]
GCP – ManTech and Google Cloud open joint facility to expedite government adoption of cloud technologies
Transitioning from legacy infrastructure to the cloud, mitigating security risk, and enabling secure collaboration for a hybrid workforce are challenges many agencies face today. While we are already seeing many federal, state and local governments adopting cloud technologies like artificial intelligence, advanced data analytics, cybersecurity solutions like Zero Trust, and Google Workspace, recent world events […]
Azure – General availability: Azure API Management updates – August 2021
The availability zones feature in Azure API Management has been updated to provide better support in four new regions, in addition to other API Management updates. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports time based schedules for Channel Assembly streams
Channel Assembly with AWS Elemental MediaTailor now lets you schedule programs based on a wall-clock time. Using “linear mode” you have fine-grained control of when individual sources will be played and which sources are to follow on a channel output. Looping mode is also available where timing on individual programs is loosely defined to ensure […]