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AWS – Amazon EC2 API now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
The Amazon EC2 API now supports the IPv6 protocol, allowing applications to connect over IPv6. This allows you to more easily meet IPv6 compliance requirements, more easily integrate with existing IPv6-based on-premises applications, and remove the need for expensive networking equipment to handle the address translation between IPv4 and IPv6. Read More for the details.
Azure – Monitoring your Azure Data Explorer Clusters with Azure Monitor (Insights) – public preview
Azure Monitor for Azure Data Explorer (public preview) provides comprehensive monitoring of your Azure Data Explorer clusters by delivering a unified view of the performance, operations, and usage. Read More for the details.
GCP – Streaming augmented reality with Google Cloud
Every year at CES, people from around the world experience the latest and greatest that consumer tech has to offer. In 2021, CES will be in an all-digital format for the first time. So how can a virtual show like CES create immersive experiences for attendees tuning in remotely? That’s an interesting challenge for the […]
Azure – View change data through Azure Monitor workbook integration with Application Change Analysis
Application Change Analysis integration with Azure Monitor workbook is now in public preview Read More for the details.
GCP – Stubhub’s path to retire the data center with Bare Metal Solution
Editor’s note: Today, we’re speaking with Austin Sheppard, CTO of StubHub, the world’s largest ticket marketplace. We’ll hear how Google Bare Metal Solution is helping StubHub on their journey into the cloud by reducing their dependency on Oracle, lowering overall costs, and driving performance. At StubHub, we’ve been at the very forefront of ticket marketplace […]
Azure – Public IP SKU upgrade generally available
Azure public IPs now support the ability to be upgraded from Basic to Standard SKU, enabling customers to retain the same IP address for services that require Standard IP frontends. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google Cloud and SAP demonstrate massive scalability for financial services customers
The mission: Proving a scale-out cloud solution for SAP financial products subledger delivers performance, scale and reliability When financial firms run a critical, resource-intensive application like SAP’s financial products subledger (FPSL), they have traditionally adopted a monolithic, single-node, scale-up architecture. But this type of system isn’t designed to sustain long-term growth. As these systems grow, […]
GCP – Going global: Workday uses Google Cloud AI to accelerate document processing
Scaling a business that sorts through millions of documents daily, across a global operation, is a tall order. Workday, with more than 3,400 core Workday Financial Management and Workday HCM customers, offers the Workday Expenses solution to provide a frictionless expense reporting experience for their customers. Here’s how they did it using Google Cloud’s Procurement […]
GCP – Powering open source healthcare research on Google Cloud
Google Cloud is pleased to announce our partnership with Odysseus Data Services to launch ATLAS on GCP. ATLAS is an open source application that is built and maintained by The Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) program. This program is a multi-stakeholder, interdisciplinary collaboration to create open-source solutions that bring out the value of […]
AWS – Amazon EMR now supports Apache Ranger for fine-grained data access control
Amazon EMR now natively integrates with Apache Ranger, allowing you to define, enforce, and audit fine-grained data access control. With this feature, you can define and enforce 1/ database, table, and column level authorization policies for Apache Spark and Apache Hive users to access data through Hive Metastore, and 2/ prefix and object level authorization […]