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GCP – Streamline your real-time data pipeline with Datastream and MongoDB
In our constantly evolving digital world, the companies that come out on top are those that can access the data they need, when they need it. Accessing data in real time enables your company to analyze, plan and improve continuously, so you can make better strategic decisions and reduce your overall risk. Whether the goal […]

GCP – Improving cloud operations and migrations with Google Cloud and ServiceNow
When organizations embrace cloud as a core component of their IT operations, they have a number of options: a wholesale migration to the public cloud, incremental or large-scale hybrid deployments, private clouds, or even running services across multiple clouds. The modern enterprise has more options than ever before in terms of where to host any […]

GCP – Visual Inspection AI: a purpose-built solution for faster, more accurate quality control
Whether companies are manufacturing cars, semiconductor chips, smartphones, or food and beverages, production quality and yield are two of the industry’s top performance metrics. Poor production quality control results in significant operational and financial costs in the form of reworked parts, scrap generated, reduced yield, increased work in process inventory, post-sale recalls, warranty claims, and […]

GCP – Scaling Virtual Support in the Pandemic Era
Scaling Virtual Support in the Pandemic Era: The AI Connection Since the early days of the pandemic, we’ve partnered with government organizations and academic institutions to serve communities at scale with Contact Center Artificial Intelligence (CCAI). I sat down with Bill MacKenzie, IT liaison for the Upper Grand School District in Ontario, and Marco Palermo, […]

AWS – Announcing a new Public Registry for AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation announces the launch of the CloudFormation Public Registry, a new searchable collection of extensions that allows you to discover, provision, and manage third-party extensions, which include resource types (provisioning logic) and modules published by AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners and the developer community. You can also create and publish your own extensions on the CloudFormation […]

AWS – Amazon RDS supports MariaDB Audit Plugin for MySQL version 8.0
The MariaDB audit plug-in is now available for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL instances using MySQL major version 8.0. The MariaDB audit plug-in is also available for instances using MySQL major versions 5.6 and 5.7, and provides event logging for database activity to help customers meet compliance and audit requirements, and troubleshoot application […]

AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now helps you monitor and improve application read/write performance and throughput by using new Amazon CloudWatch metrics
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now helps you monitor and improve application read/write performance and throughput by using new Amazon CloudWatch metrics. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Key Vault Managed HSM is generally available
Azure Key Vault Managed HSM (hardware security module) is now generally available. Managed HSM offers a fully managed, highly available, single-tenant, high-throughput, standards-compliant cloud service to safeguard cryptographic keys for your cloud applications, using FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated HSMs. Read More for the details.

GCP – Leveraging BigQuery Public Boundaries datasets for geospatial analytics
Geospatial data is a critical component for a comprehensive analytics strategy. Whether you are trying to visualize data using geospatial parameters or do deeper analysis or modeling on customer distribution or proximity, most organizations have some type of geospatial data they would like to use – whether it be customer zipcodes, store locations, or shipping […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaLive now converts image-based subtitles to text-based captions for mobile device playback
AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports converting Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) bitmap and SCTE-27 image-based subtitles to WebVTT captions. Read More for the details.