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GCP – New Paper: Assuring Compliance in the Cloud
Cloud transformation and the adoption of modern DevOps technology presents both opportunities and challenges for IT compliance functions. With DevOps style application development, the feedback loop for developers and engineers is much tighter than with traditional application development pipelines, enabling speed and agility of application release cycles. While speedy CI/CD is a critical advantage of […]

GCP – Registration is open for Google Cloud Next: October 12–14
Mark your calendars – registration is now open for Google Cloud Next, October 12–14, 2021. Like Google Cloud, this year’s flagship event is designed to be open and flexible, and give you the freedom of choice to create the experience that’s best for you. We’ve designed Next ’21 as a customizable digital adventure to allow […]

GCP – From print to voice and beyond: How Toyota is transforming the car manual
Over the decades, technology has helped us organize large amounts of physical information in ways that are streamlined, efficient, and easily accessible. Rows upon rows of encyclopedias are no longer needed; simply punch in or speak a query into Google Search and find numerous results at your fingertips. There’s no need to haul around cases […]

GCP – Accelerating Government’s Zero Trust Journey
In May, the White House issued an Executive Order aiming to improve the nation’s cybersecurity defenses and requiring US Federal agencies to develop plans to implement Zero Trust architectures in alignment with National Institute of Standards and Technology National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidance. This Executive Order also calls on agencies to accelerate […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.07
The 21.07 update includes heap memory allocation tracking, time sync changes, and support for service principles. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Athena announces data source connector for Power BI
With the July release of Microsoft Power BI Desktop, you can now create reports and dashboards using a built in, Microsoft-certified connector for Amazon Athena. This release makes it possible for AWS customers using Power BI for business intelligence to leverage their Amazon S3 data lake and federated data sources to analyze, visualize, and share […]

AWS – Amazon Connect Adds Colombia Phone Numbers
Amazon Connect now supports claiming local toll-free and direct inward dial phone numbers in Colombia in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. These new local telephony services enable you to support end-customers in Colombia. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: New West US 3 region added to Azure HDInsight
HDInsight is now generally available for West US 3 customers. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure App Service Migration Assistant PowerShell-based experience
The PowerShell-based experience for the Azure App Service Migration Assistant is now in public preview. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server Auto-grow storage in public preview
With auto-grow storage enabled, your storage automatically grows when storage consumed on the Flexible Server is nearing its provisioned limit. Read More for the details.