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GCP – Artifact Registry: the next generation of Container Registry
Enterprise application teams need to manage more than just containers in their software supply chain. That’s why we created Artifact Registry, a fully-managed service with support for both container images and non-container artifacts. Artifact Registry improves and extends upon the existing capabilities of Container Registry, such as customer-managed encryption keys, VPC-SC support, Pub/Sub notifications, and […]

GCP – IDC reveals 323% ROI for SAP customers using BigQuery
If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it is that speed and intelligence are of the essence when it comes to making business decisions. Organizations must find ways of keeping ahead of competitors and disruptions by continually leveraging data to make smart decisions. The problem? Data may be everywhere, but it’s not always available […]

GCP – Scaling data access to 10Tbps (yes, terabits) with Lustre
Data growth is a massive challenge for all organizations, but just as important is ensuring access to the data doesn’t become a bottleneck. For high performance computing (HPC) and ML/AI applications, reducing time to insight is key, and so finding the right storage solution that can support low latency, high bandwidth data access at an […]

GCP – Rossi Residencial migrates SAP to the cloud with zero impact on operations
Rossi Residencial is one of Brazil’s largest construction companies and real estate developers, with more than 115,000 clients in residential and commercial properties. The company had successfully relied on a managed deployment of SAP for its financial operations since 1999, first on premises and later with a private cloud provider. But in 2017, Rossi began […]

AWS – Redshift spatial performance enhancements and new spatial functions
Starting today, Amazon Redshift introduces spatial query performance enhancements, 3D/4D geometries, and new spatial functions in Amazon Redshift to improve processing of spatial data. Read More for the details.

GCP – Telecom Leader TELUS keeps subscribers connected and safe, leveraging data to confront Covid-19.
As one of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies, TELUS has over 9.5 million subscribers, and those subscribers generate a lot of data. It’s up to Joe Bettridge, Consulting Lead of TELUS Insights, to use that data to drive innovation. Google Cloud’s suite of services, including BigQuery and Data Studio, has proven instrumental to the company’s overall […]

GCP – What’s the latest with Actifio GO backup and disaster recovery?
As customers adopt public cloud platforms, they expect a consistent operational capability for protecting workloads in the cloud and on-premises. In December 2020, Google acquired Actifio to address this critical requirement and Actifio GO is now available on the Google marketplace. Actifio GO delivers a backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) service for a broad range […]

AWS – Amazon Connect Customer Profiles is now HIPAA eligible
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles is now HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) eligible. Customer Profiles is designed to automatically bring together customer information from multiple applications and surface it to a contact agent at the moment they begin interacting with a customer. HIPAA eligibility means you can use Customer Profiles to provide agents with the Protected […]

GCP – BigQuery workload management best practices
In the most recent season of BigQuery Spotlight, we discussed key concepts like the BigQuery Resource hierarchy, query processing, and the reservation model. This blog focuses on extending those concepts to operationalize workload management for various scenarios. We will discuss the following topics: BigQuery’s Flexible Query Cost Options Workload Management Key Concepts Reservation Applications Patterns […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Customer Profiles is now HIPPA eligible
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles is now HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) eligible. Customer Profiles is designed to automatically bring together customer information from multiple applications and surface it to a contact agent at the moment they begin interacting with a customer. HIPAA eligibility means you can use Customer Profiles to provide agents with the Protected […]