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GCP – Shiseido: building a data analysis platform using BigQuery for 80% cost savings
The cosmetics industry is one of the industries that has been strongly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, as people’s habits changed — both in how the shop and how they want to show up, whether that’s at work, to a party, or just out and about. Even as our lives have found a new normal […]
GCP – Understanding Airflow DAG and task concurrency on Google Cloud Composer
Apache Airflow is a popular tool for orchestrating data workflows. Google Cloud offers a managed Airflow service called Cloud Composer, a fully managed workflow orchestration service built on Apache Airflow that enables you to author, schedule, and monitor pipelines. Despite Airflow’s popularity and ease of use, the nuances of DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) and task […]
GCP – Leverage enterprise data with Denodo and Vertex AI for generative AI applications
Leveraging enterprise data for generative AI and large language models (LLMs) presents significant challenges related to data silos, quality inconsistencies, privacy and security concerns, compliance with data regulations, capturing domain-specific knowledge, and mitigating inherent biases. Organizations must navigate the complexities of consolidating fragmented data sources, ensuring data integrity, and addressing ethical considerations. Techniques like retrieval […]
GCP – APT45: North Korea’s Digital Military Machine
Written by: Taylor Long, Jeff Johnson, Alice Revelli, Fred Plan, Michael Barnhart Executive Summary APT45 is a long-running, moderately sophisticated North Korean cyber operator that has carried out espionage campaigns as early as 2009. APT45 has gradually expanded into financially-motivated operations, and the group’s suspected development and deployment of ransomware sets it apart from […]
GCP – Powering a sustainable future with ChromeOS
In a world of rapid change and pressing environmental challenges, action is needed now more than ever. With 96% of people across the globe wanting sustainability to be a part of their lives,1 businesses need to take action. Last year, I shared ways we can make a change by reducing the amount of e-waste we […]
AWS – AWS DataSync expands support for agentless cross-region data transfers to include opt-in regions
AWS DataSync now supports agentless cross-region data transfers between all regions in the commercial AWS partition, including opt-in regions. With this update, you can now transfer millions of files or objects between AWS Storage services such as Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, and Amazon FSx in different regions without deploying or managing a DataSync agent. AWS […]
AWS – Mistral Large 2 foundation model now available in Amazon Bedrock
Mistral AI’s Mistral Large 2 (24.07) foundation model is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. This model is the latest version of Mistral AI’s flagship large language model, Mistral Large (24.02), with significant improvements on multilingual accuracy, conversational behavior, coding capabilities, reasoning and instruction-following behavior. With this new release of Mistral Large, you can leverage […]
AWS – AWS Signer open sources Notation plugin for container image signing
Today, AWS open-sourced the AWS Signer plugin for Notation, giving customers flexibility and transparency in how they sign and verify container images with AWS Signer, a managed signing service. Notation is an open source tool developed by the Notary Project, an industry standard for securing software supply chains by authenticating container images and other OCI […]
GCP – Introducing Partner Companion: An AI-powered advisor for enhanced customer engagement
Following the exciting preview at Google Cloud Next 2024, we’re thrilled to announce the expanded availability of Partner Companion to Google Cloud Services Partners! At Google Cloud, we believe in the power of our partners. Partner Companion leverages generative AI to give them the information they need to thrive. It’s not just a showcase of […]
GCP – Announcing VPC Service Controls with private IPs to extend data exfiltration protection
Google Cloud’s VPC Service Controls can help organizations mitigate the risk of data exfiltration from their Google Cloud managed services. VPC Service Controls (VPC-SC) creates isolation perimeters around cloud resources and networks in Google Cloud, helping you limit access to your sensitive data. Today, we are excited to introduce support for private IP addresses within […]