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Azure – General availability: Turn your phone into an IoT device with the new IoT Plug and Play mobile app
Use the IoT Plug and Play phone app as an IoT device to get started quickly with IoT Central or IoT Hub. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure DevOps updates for June 2021
With this update, we’ve added a new set of policies which can be used to restrict the scope and lifespan of your organization’s Azure DevOps personal access tokens. Read More for the details.

GCP – Accelerate Google Cloud database migration assessments with EPAM’s migVisor
Editor’s note: Today, we’re announcing the Database Migration Assessment and partnership with software development company EPAM, allowing Google Cloud customers access to migVisor to conduct a database migration assessment. Today, we’re announcing our latest offering—the Database Migration Assessment—a Google Cloud-led project to help customers accelerate their deployment to Google Cloud databases with a free evaluation […]

GCP – Remote, hybrid, or office work? It’s easier with no-code apps
As offices reopen, businesses aren’t keeping to a single formula. Many are embracing hybrid models, with employees splitting time between home and the office. Some are staying 100% remote. Others are returning the full workforce to offices with a greater focus on digitization. Regardless of their model, one thing is certain: technology is more central […]

AWS – Managed Database Auditing with Amazon RDS Database Activity Streams for Amazon RDS for Oracle
Database Activity Streams (DAS) for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle provides a near real-time stream of all audited statements (SELECT, DML, DDL, DCL, TCL) executed in your DB instance. The audit data is collected from the unified database audit, while the storage and processing of database activity is managed outside your database. […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics for Health
Now generally available, use Text Analytics for Health to detect words and phrases mentioned in unstructured text as entities in the healthcare and biomedical domain. Read More for the details.

GCP – Cloud Career Jump Start: our virtual certification readiness program
It’s no question that the cloud computing industry is booming and cloud experts are in high demand. In 2020, 67 percent of organizations surveyed in the IDG Cloud Computing Report added new cloud roles and functions (source). So there are plenty of cloud jobs out there, but if you don’t have years of experience, you […]

GCP – Getting started with MLOps: Selecting the right capabilities for your use case
Establishing a mature MLOps practice to build and operationalize ML systems can take years to get right. We recently published our MLOps framework to help organizations come up to speed faster in this important domain. As you start your MLOps journey, you might not need to implement all of these processes and capabilities. Some will […]

GCP – Celebrating a year of connecting people and businesses through helpful conversations
Last June, in the early months of the pandemic, we expanded Business Messages to support all kinds of businesses, from pharmacies and grocery stores to airlines and luxury brands. Then, in December, we announced the ability for small businesses to use the Google Maps app to message with their customers. We knew people would find […]
GCP – IBM Spectrum LSF Now Supports HPC Workloads on Google Cloud
High Performance Computing (HPC) is prevalent today across many industries, including financial services, life sciences, higher education research, manufacturing, and energy. More and more businesses are deploying HPC workloads in the cloud to take advantage of its elasticity, scalability, and availability. Job schedulers are critical for HPC applications given the nature of these workloads that create, process, […]