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Azure – Now available: Azure Purview product glossary
The Azure Purview product glossary provides comprehensive set of product terms and definitions used in Azure Purview features and functionality. Read More for the details.

GCP – UCLA: Building the future of higher education technology with APIs
Imagine you work at a university, and every time you need to use department funds to pay for something, you’re required to go through a protracted, multi-step process. Or suppose you’re a student trying to review your academic record, then browse and enroll in classes you need– but different parts of the process are scattered […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Automation Customer Managed Keys
Encrypt your Automation account assests using Customer-managed keys. Read More for the details.

GCP – Fresh ingredients to fresh insights: An inside look at Papa John’s data cloud strategy
Editor’s note: In this blog, we look at how Cloud SQL delivered speed, flexibility, and agility to global pizza company Papa John’s International. With more than 5,400 locations in 50 countries and territories, Papa John’s International is one of the largest pizza chains in the world. In 2017, the company took a cloud-first strategy and […]

GCP – Batter up! Use machine learning to uncover what excites baseball fans
The game of baseball has no shortage of statistics — from batting average to exit velocity, strikeouts to wins above replacement. Among all sports, Major League Baseball (MLB) arguably contains the most analytical and data-driven participants and fan base. Subconsciously or viscerally, players and managers on the field and those following from anywhere are constantly […]

GCP – 5 Ways telehealth is democratizing access to healthcare
According to a National Academy of Medicine discussion paper, social determinants of health (SDoH) account for upwards of 80% of a population’s health outcomes. Breaking this down further, 50% come just from socioeconomic and physical environment factors such as education, employment, income, family and social support, community safety, air and water quality, and access to […]

GCP – Simplify VM migrations with Migrate for Compute Engine as a service
Customers across industries are migrating applications at scale to the cloud. Migrate for Compute Engine enables you to lift and shift workloads at scale to Google Cloud Compute Engine with minimal changes and risk. Recently, we delivered our latest release of Migrate for Compute Engine – Version 5 or V5. This version delivers a Google-managed […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Pipeline introduces a automatic hyperparameter tuning step
Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, the first purpose-built continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service for machine learning (ML), is now integrated with SageMaker’s automatic model tuning capability. Customers can add a model tuning step (TuningStep) in their SageMaker Pipelines which will automatically invoke a hyperparameter tuning job. The hyperparameter tuning finds the best version of a model […]

GCP – BlueZoo turns to Google Cloud and AI to redefine property insurance
One of the most exciting parts of our jobs at Google Cloud is learning from our customers about industries, innovations, and what we can do together with differentiated technology. Our customers are the ones who transform businesses and improve the lives of millions, and being with them on the journey is rewarding on so many […]
GCP – Google Cloud Government Security Summit – Join us for ‘can’t miss’ content and solutions for your toughest cybersecurity challenges
The Google Cloud Government Security Summit is one week away, and we’re pleased to announce our full program line up, packed with content and insights from some of the world’s leading cybersecurity thought leaders, including: Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud Chris DeRusha, Federal Chief Information Security Officer Dmitri Alperovitch, Founder and Former CTO of CrowdStrike […]