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GCP – Building the future of work with Google Workspace
Since we launched Google Workspace last October, we’ve heard from many of our customers—from global enterprises to small businesses—about the new ways they’re connecting, creating, and collaborating, often across living rooms, time zones, and continents. This response propels us on our mission to build for the future with a solution that’s flexible, helpful, and inspires […]

GCP – Announcing Assured Controls and expanded Data Regions coverage for Google Workspace
As Google Workspace rapidly introduces new collaboration tools to help organizations embrace the Future of Work, we want to further empower our admins with the tools they need to control their data according to their organizational requirements and business goals. Helping admins achieve these information governance goals is a critical part of earning and maintaining […]

AWS – Amazon EKS now supports adding KMS envelope encryption to existing clusters to enhance security for secrets
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now allows you to implement envelope encryption of Kubernetes secrets using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys for existing EKS clusters. Envelope encryption adds an addition, customer-managed layer of encryption for application secrets or user data that is stored within a Kubernetes cluster. Implementing envelope encryption is considered a security […]

GCP – 21 Google Cloud tools, each explained in under 2 minutes
Need a quick overview of Google Cloud core technologies? Quickly learn these 21 Google Cloud products—each explained in under two minutes. 1. BigQuery in a minute Storing and querying massive datasets can be time consuming and expensive without the right infrastructure. This video gives you an overview of BigQuery, Google’s fully-managed data warehouse. Watch to […]

GCP – Optimizing your bucket options in Cloud Storage
You’ve got the data, and we’ve got the buckets. In this post, we’ll review why buckets are the cornerstone of everything you’ll do in Cloud Storage, and go over some of the options you’ll need to understand to get things set up. Why Buckets? Anything you want to store in Cloud Storage needs to be […]

AWS – Support for AS923-1 frequency band is now generally available for AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN
Starting today, AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN customers can use the AS923-1 frequency band to connect LoRaWAN gateways and devices that are physically present in countries that support the frequency ranges and characteristics of this band. AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN enables customers to setup a private LoRaWAN network by connecting their LoRaWAN devices and […]

AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now allows you to specify IP addresses for SAP deployments
AWS Launch Wizard now gives you the option to specify a private IP address of your choice for each EC2 instance in your SAP deployment. This makes it easy to adhere to organizational security/ governance processes that dictate which IP addresses are permissible. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Site Recovery update rollup 54 is now generally available – February 2021
The latest Azure Site Recovery update provides provides fixes, updated replication support, and download links for Site Recovery components. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Config now supports Amazon container services
AWS Config now supports Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR), and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in all AWS Regions. With this launch, you can now use AWS Config to monitor configuration data for container-based resources in your AWS account, such as monitoring configuration changes to EKS cluster […]
Azure – Power BI Connector for Azure Databricks is now generally available
Announcing the general availability of the Power BI connector for Azure Databricks, for Power BI Service and Power BI Desktop 2.85.681.0. Read More for the details.