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GCP – Samsung Electronics supercharges Bixby with Cloud TPUs & TensorFlow
If you are an Android Galaxy phone user, you may already be familiar with Bixby, the intelligent voice assistant from Samsung Electronics that powers more than 160 million devices worldwide in nine languages. Today, we announced that Bixby’s voice-recognition model has achieved an 18X speed boost in training by using Cloud TPUs. Bixby and other […]
GCP – COVID-19 reshapes manufacturing landscape, new Google Cloud findings show
After facing severe headwinds from COVID-19, ranging from decreased orders to negative impacts on operations, manufacturers around the world have started to revamp their operating models and supply chain strategies—and now feel more prepared to successfully navigate future pandemics, according to our new research released today. The key for manufacturers’ ability to transform—despite the ongoing […]
GCP – Google Cloud and Qlik: Bringing BigQuery analytics to your SAP data
If your organization is one of the 52% of SAP customers whose top analytics pain point is data integration1, Google Cloud has got you covered. By working with partners like Qlik, we are expanding our integration options and bringing real-time replication capability for SAP to BigQuery. Integrated data for accelerated insights BigQuery—our fully managed, enterprise […]
Azure – Azure portal to end support for Internet Explorer 11 on March 31, 2021
Start using the using the new Edge browser from Microsoft. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google Cloud Public Sector Summit Day Two in Review
We’re back with our second and final recap of the Google Cloud Public Sector Summit! Day two was another exciting and insightful day of sessions that showcased powerful stories of public sector innovation and resiliency worldwide. Discussions centered on the impact of new solutions and collaboration across global public sector organizations – and emphasized the […]
Azure – Azure Blob storage—NFS 3.0 protocol support public preview now supports GPV2 storage accounts
NFS 3.0 support for Azure Blob Storage preview now supports premium performance tier in all available regions and lower cost standard performance tier in Australia East, Korea Central, and South Central US. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Repos – New enhancements to pull request experience
In this sprint, we’re doubling down our investments in the pull request experience with a list of new enhancements. Read More for the details.
GCP – Control access to your web sites with Identity-Aware Proxy
Does your company need to make an internal website accessible to employees, temporary workers, and contractors? How about running a public site open to all, but with some functions requiring personalization? Or perhaps providing a highly restricted site that only authorized users, running on secure platforms, can access? Those are all common use cases, and […]
Azure – Transparent Data Encryption with customer-managed keys for SQL Database Hyperscale
This feature enables bring your own key (BYOK) support for data protection at rest, using Azure Key Vault, for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale customers. Read More for the details.
Azure – Private link for Azure SQL Data Sync on Azure SQL Database now in public preview
Private link enables SQL Data Sync users to choose a service managed private endpoint for the sync service to securely connect to member and hub databases during data synchronization. Read More for the details.