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Azure – Germany West Central Availability Zones now generally available
Microsoft is pleased to announce that Azure Availability Zones are now generally available from the Germany West Central datacenter region. Azure Availability Zones (AZs) feature in the broad portfolio of services and products that enable organizations to create resilient, highly available applications for mission-critical workloads. Read More for the details.
GCP – BeyondCorp Enterprise: Introducing a safer era of computing
Security issues continue to disrupt the status quo for global enterprises. Recent incidents highlight the need to re-think our security plans and operations; attackers are getting smarter, attacks are more sophisticated, and assumptions about what is and isn’t locked down no longer hold. The challenge, however, is to enable disruptive innovation in security without disrupting […]
GCP – How our customers modernize business intelligence with BigQuery and Looker
Businesses increasingly gather data to better understand their customers, products, marketing, and more. But unlocking valuable and meaningful insights from that data requires powerful, reliable, and scalable solutions. We hear from our BigQuery and Looker customers that they’ve been able to modernize business intelligence (BI) and allow self-service discovery on the data the business collects. […]
GCP – Show me the money! How you can see returns up to $259M with a DevOps Transformation
2020 challenged some of the best laid plans by enterprises. With nearly everything moving online, Covid-19 pushed forward years of digital transformation. DevOps was at the heart of this transformation journey. After all, delivering software quickly, reliably, and safely to meet the changing needs of customers was crucial to adapt to this new normal. It […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift doubles managed storage quota to 128 TB per node for RA3.16XL and RA3.4XL node-types
Amazon Redshift, the most widely used cloud data warehouse, doubles the managed storage capacity for RA3.16XL and RA3.4XL node-types to 128 TB per node. If your data is growing rapidly, doubling the managed storage quota will help you analyze even more data without increasing your compute cost or changing your workload. Read More for the […]
AWS – AWS Shield Advanced now provides mitigation metrics and network traffic timelines
The AWS Shield Advanced dashboard now displays additional mitigation metrics and network traffic timeline details for events detected on protected resources. This also includes details about the actions automatically taken to mitigate DDoS attacks. You can use this information to more easily evaluate your applications when an unexpected increase in traffic is detected by Shield […]
Azure – Python 3.9 in Azure Functions is now in public preview
Announcing some enhancements to the development experience for Python workloads in Azure Functions, including support for Python 3.9. Read More for the details.
Azure – New Azure Cloud Services deployment model in public preview
Use Azure Cloud Services (extended support), now in public preview, to increase regional resiliency and gain access to new capabilities that the Azure Resource Manager-based deployment model provides. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Data Factory is now available in two additional regions
Azure Data Factory is now available in two new regions: China North 2 and South India Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure HDInsight extends capabilities for encryption of data in transit and at rest
Azure HDInsight Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) encryption in transit is now generally available. HDInsight also supports version-less keys for customer-managed key (CMK) encryption at rest. Read More for the details.