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GCP – New study available: Modernize with AIOps to maximize your impact
Organizations are currently modernizing their businesses in order to meet the increasing complexity of today’s business landscape. In effect, business leaders must evaluate the best way to mitigate the challenges which plague their cloud operations, all while meeting customers’ growing expectations around digital experience (DX) through agility, automation, and proactive incident avoidance. In this commissioned […]

GCP – How to connect a Private Cloud SQL instance to a Private IP VM
Imagine that you’re dealing with extremely sensitive data that’s stored in a MySQL database – credit card numbers, health records, sensitive text – you name it. You want to access that data from a virtual machine for critical application workloads but be absolutely sure that no traffic will ever be exposed to the public internet. […]

GCP – Announcing Apricot: a new subsea cable connecting Singapore to Japan
Did you know that 98% of international internet traffic is ferried around the world by subsea cables? As the ways that we work, play and connect become increasingly digital, reliable connectivity is more important than ever before. Today, we are announcing Apricot, a new subsea cable that will connect Singapore, Japan, Guam, the Philippines, Taiwan […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances now supports TensorFlow 2
AWS Neuron, the SDK for running machine learning inference on AWS Inferentia-based Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances now supports TensorFlow 2. Starting with Neuron 1.15.0 you can execute your TensorFlow 2 BERT based models on Inf1 instances with support for additional models coming soon. To learn more about Neuron TensorFlow 2 support, visit our TensorFlow 2 […]

AWS – Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Cross-account Data Sharing
Amazon Redshift data sharing allows you to share live, transactionally consistent data across different Redshift clusters without the complexity and delays associated with data copies and data movement. Ability to share data across clusters that are in the same AWS account is already available. Now sharing data across Redshift clusters in different AWS accounts is also […]

Azure – General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—July 2021
July updates include enhancements to device information displays and new features to help you manage your IoT Edge devices. Read More for the details.

GCP – Upcoming Webinar: “How to plan your migration the right way”
When you start to consider a cloud migration project, it becomes clear that there are a lot of questions you need to contemplate and answer. Questions like: Why are we considering a migration to the public cloud? What kinds of problems are we trying to solve? What kinds of benefits are we hoping to achieve? […]

AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew now supports numerical format transformations
AWS Glue DataBrew, now supports numerical format transformations including setting decimal precision, customizing thousands separators, and abbreviating large values. With just a few clicks, customers can visually standardize numbers and customize their datasets for specific reporting use cases. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing prepared data into AWS Lake Formation based AWS Glue Data Catalog tables
AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing prepared data from recipe jobs into AWS Lake Formation based AWS Glue Data Catalog S3 tables. With this feature, you can catalog cleaned and normalized data in existing AWS Glue Data catalog tables, and apply AWS Lake Formation permissions and access controls on the data. Read More for the […]
GCP – The Brexit vote: A case study in causal inference using machine learning
In this blog post, we’ll answer the question, “How did the Brexit vote impact exchange rates between the British Pound and US Dollar?” To do so, we’ll use causal inference techniques to estimate the impact of what statisticians call a “treatment,” in this case a policy decision. Please note that this is a technical blog […]