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GCP – How reCAPTCHA Enterprise protects unemployment and COVID-19 vaccination portals
More people than ever have been conducting more of their lives online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This creates a new landscape for fraudsters to create and release new attacks. Researchcommissioned by Forrester Consulting showed 84% of companies have seen an increase in bot attacks. 71% of organizations have seen an increase in the amount […]
GCP – How does Anthos simplify hybrid & multicloud deployments?
Most enterprises have applications in disparate locations—in their own data centers, in multiple public clouds, and at the edge. These apps run on different proprietary technology stacks, which reduces developer velocity, wastes computing resources, and hinders scalability. How can you consistently secure and operate existing apps, while developing and deploying new apps across hybrid and […]
GCP – Congrats, you bought Anthos! Now what?
What’s the first thing you do when you get something new? It depends, right? When I bought a new mobile phone, I jumped in to reload my favorite apps and explore the new features. After I got a kitchen remodeled, I looked around and wondered what to do next. Organize things? Cook something? Learn to […]
GCP – Innovating and experimenting in EMEA’s Public Sector: Lessons from 2020–2021
By now, we’ve answered the question of whether public sector agencies can innovate, transform, and operate with a remote workforce. They can do so quite well. Government organisations worldwide have been using technology to manage remote work challenges and continue to provide services to constituents. In my role as a Customer Engineer for Google Cloud […]
AWS – Introducing Incident Manager from AWS Systems Manager
Today, AWS announces Incident Manager, a new capability of AWS Systems Manager that enables faster resolution of critical application availability and performance issues. Incident Manager helps you prepare for incidents with automated response plans that bring the right people and information together. The Incident Manager console provides a unified user interface to view operational data […]
AWS – Migration Evaluator announces a faster way to project AWS cloud costs with Quick Insights
Building a business case for the cloud can be a time-consuming process on your own. With Migration Evaluator, organizations can accelerate their evaluation and decision-making for migration to AWS. Quick Insights – a new capability of Migration Evaluator, provides customers with a one-page summary of their projected AWS costs based on measured on-premises provisioning and […]
GCP – Scheduling Cloud SQL exports using Cloud Functions and Cloud Scheduler
Cloud SQL offers an easy way to perform a database export for any of your databases right from the Cloud Console. Database export files are saved to Google Cloud Storage and can be used via the Cloud SQL import process to be recreated as new databases. Creating a one-time export file is good but setting […]
AWS – Amazon Athena drivers now support Azure AD and PingFederate authentication
With the latest release of JDBC and ODBC drivers for Amazon Athena, you can use Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory (AD) or Ping Identity’s PingFederate for authentication with compatible business intelligence, SQL, or embedded analytics applications. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter for distributed training
Amazon SageMaker now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for training machine learning models. EFA is a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that enables customers to run applications requiring high levels of inter-node communications at scale on AWS. EFA can significantly speed up distributed training on SageMaker at no additional cost. For example, we trained […]
AWS – Support for Kantar watermarking is now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert
AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports Kantar SNAP watermarking for mezzanine and OTT content delivery. With this feature, audio streams processed by MediaConvert can now be watermarked with unique identifiers that allow for audience measurement across a variety of playback and consumption methods. When enabled, the unique identifier and Kantar account details are transmitted to Kantar […]