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Azure – Azure Backup for SAP HANA databases now supports Incremental backups – Public preview
Azure Backup for SAP HANA now supports HANA incremental backups which allows you to have faster and more cost-effective backups. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Trusted Advisor enables multi-account reporting of best practice recommendations with AWS Organizations
Starting today, you can use the console to aggregate AWS Trusted Advisor recommendations across all accounts in your organization with AWS Organizations. The new Organizational View feature in Trusted Advisor allows you to generate reports with detailed check results across multiple accounts in your AWS organization. In addition, you can view a high level summary […]
GCP – Chromebooks give Germany’s Viessmann new freedom to secure remote work
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Alexander Pöllmann, Head of Workplace Technology at Viessmann, a Germany-based manufacturing company providing climate solutions. Following its adoption of Google Workspace and Chrome Browser in 2017, Viessmann added Chromebooks last year, aiming to roll out 3,000 Chrome devices by 2022. By 2019, our company was already well on the […]
GCP – Data governance in Google Cloud–new ways to securely access and discover data
BigQuery column-level security now GA As organizations bring more and more-sensitive data analytics workloads to the cloud, BigQuery is entrusted to provide fine-grained security and governance controls that help them satisfy principles of least-privileged access. Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of BigQuery column-level security. Introduced earlier this year, column-level security […]
GCP – A developer’s guide to Google Kubernetes Engine, or GKE
When people think about whether or not to deploy on a container management platform like Kubernetes, the decision often comes down to its operational benefits: better resource efficiency, higher scalability, advanced resiliency, security, etc. But Kubernetes is also beneficial to the software development side of the house. Whether it’s improved portability of your code, or […]
GCP – Four ways to generate value from your APIs
It’s been 20 years since Jerry Maguire hit movie theaters in 1996, and yet one line from the movie still resonates like no other. The constant banter between the agent, Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) and budding professional football player Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is fun, if not bombastic, with one central theme that Tidwell […]
GCP – The 10 most popular sessions from Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir
Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir looked a little different this year. Instead of a three-day conference, we launched a nine-week digital event series that brought together our global cloud community to discuss and collaborate on the most significant cloud technology challenges facing companies today. We may have gone virtual, but some things stayed the same—all […]
AWS – AWS Partners: Learn how to engage customers in ML and AI opportunities!
AWS Training and Certification has launched a major update to the classroom course AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Machine Learning on AWS (Business). This four-hour, intermediate-level course is designed for account owners and pre-sales representatives at AWS Partner organizations. Read More for the details.
GCP – Your questions about Local Context answered
Editor’s note:We recently hosted a webinar to provide an overview of Local Context, a new turnkey solution that adds Google’s rich, local information to your desktop or mobile web app. We received a variety of questions from the audience and ran out of time before we could answer them all. We sat down with Product […]
GCP – Helping media companies create consumer streaming formats with Transcoder API
Media and entertainment companies across the world are in the midst of a transformational shift to direct-to-consumer (D2C) streaming experiences. With audiences sheltering in place in 2020, this shift has been accelerated as audiences have adopted new streaming services more readily in 2020 than ever before. With more content being streamed in higher resolutions and […]