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GCP – Fuel your custom models with Vertex AI
In May we announced Vertex AI, our new unified AI platform which provides options for everything from using pre-trained models to building your models with a variety of frameworks. In this post we’ll do a deep dive on training and deploying a custom model on Vertex AI. There are many different tools provided in Vertex […]
AWS – Amazon EMR now allows you to easily identify latest releases that have the applications you need
You can now easily list Amazon EMR releases available in an Amazon region and describe the applications available with any Amazon EMR release. Previously, if you were looking to launch Amazon EMR clusters in new regions, or with the latest version of an application, you had to read the release notes and manually update your cluster launch […]
Azure – Automatic Azure VM extension upgrade capabilities now generally available
Automatic extension upgrade provides safe and automatic upgrades for extensions on Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets, keeping your environments more secure and up to date. Read More for the details.
GCP – Streaming VR and AR content from Google Cloud with NVIDIA CloudXR
The Opportunity for Streamed AR/VR Content What if you could get a high quality AR/VR experience without a dedicated physical computer—or even without a physical tether? In the past, interacting with VR required a dedicated, high-end workstation and, depending on the headset, wall-mounted sensors and a dedicated physical space. Complex tasks in VR can push […]
GCP – IT leaders are choosing a sustainable future
The global-wide interruptions of the coronavirus pandemic provided the opportunity for businesses to take a closer look at how we work, learn, live, and consume. With work stoppages and quarantine orders in place, carbon emissions and pollution levels saw significant reductions, highlighting how business and environmental sustainability are linked. As the world returns to work, […]
GCP – Businesses realize the full value of visual data using Plainsight Vision AI on Google Cloud
Data-savvy businesses increasingly rely on images and videos for critical functions, and yet are challenged by the sheer mass of information—more than 3.2 billion images and 720,000 hours of video are created daily. This explosion in visual data has paved the way for the growth of computer vision, a form of artificial intelligence (AI) that […]
AWS – Announcing support for new Timestamp function, PreTrigger function and ability to write nested expressions within aggregation functions
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports three new enhancements to AWS IoT SiteWise formula expressions to allow users greater flexibility in monitoring their IoT assets in near real-time. Read More for the details.
GCP – Economic Recovery: Wisconsin Leans on Google Cloud to Better Serve Its Community During COVID-19 and Beyond
When confronted with challenges, resilient organizations adapt and innovate to address changing customer needs. Through its partnership with Google Cloud, the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development exemplifies this evolutionary approach. Just a few months ago, challenges created by the antiquated unemployment insurance (UI) system threatened the agency’s ability to serve constituents who lost their jobs […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker introduces one-click model inference and fine-tuning for Hugging Face models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Building on the Hugging Face deep learning containers released earlier this year, Amazon SageMaker is now making it even easier to deploy and fine-tune the state-of-the-art natural language processing models (NLP) with just a few clicks using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Amazon SageMaker JumpStart helps you quickly and easily get started with machine learning (ML). SageMaker […]
GCP – Running Anthos inside Google
With everyone and their dog shifting to containers, and away from virtual machines (VMs), we realized that running vendor-provided software on VMs at Google was slowing us down. So we moved. Enter Anthos, Google Cloud’s managed application platform, and its associated developer tools. Today we’ll take you through our process of moving Confluence and Acrolinx […]