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GCP – EFPL’s Swiss Plasma Center aims to simulate fusion on Google Cloud
The development of a new clean energy source has the potential to revolutionize our world. The The Swiss Plasma Center at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) is trying to do just that: Using intense magnetic fields to confine hydrogen at temperatures up to 100 million degrees, scientists aim to create the conditions for fusion […]
GCP – How Psyonix wins with better logging
When you grow your peak concurrent users by 5x nearly overnight, ensuring that your operations can successfully support that growth can be a make or break for your success. Rocket League is a popular online multiplayer game created by Psyonix described as arcade-style soccer and vehicular mayhem. In the summer of 2020, the game maker […]
GCP – Three security and scalability improvements for Cloud SQL for SQL Server
As a product with a long history in the database ecosystem, SQL Server offers numerous native capabilities that help provide scalability and security to its users. However, it can be time consuming and complex to take advantage of these features. Google Cloud SQL for SQL Server saves your team time by eliminating much of the […]
GCP – A year of carbon-free energy at our data centers
Last year, we announced our most ambitious sustainability goal yet: to operate everywhere on 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030. We’ve set this goal to ensure that Google Cloud continues to be the cleanest cloud in the industry, and to show that full-scale decarbonization of electricity use is possible. Since setting our target, we’ve made tremendous […]
GCP – Iroquois Healthcare Association easily enables staff to work remotely with Chrome OS
Editor’s note:Today’s post is by Eileen Murphy, Senior Director of Special Projects, and Andrew Nault, Director of Business Development, both from Iroquois Healthcare Association Workforce Investment Organization (IHA WIO). The health association represents 44 hospitals in 32 counties in New York State, providing advocacy, cost-saving initiatives, and business solutions. IHA WIO has provided its participating […]
GCP – Shine on with user-friendly SQL capabilities in BigQuery
June is the month which holds the summer solstice, and (at least in the northern hemisphere) we enjoy the longest days of sunshine out of the entire year. Just as the sun is making its longest trips across the sky, the BigQuery team is delighted to announce our next set of user-friendly SQL features. These […]
AWS – Support for additional MXF mezzanine output formats now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert
AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports creating AVC-Intra, VC3, and XAVC mezzanine formats carried in the MXF container. Often referred to as “intermediate” or “editing” file formats, these lightly compressed video codecs balance quality and performance by providing visually lossless compression, lightweight decoding requirements, and native editing and playback support in non-linear editing tools. Read More for the […]
GCP – At Ericsson and Google Cloud, imagining the future of edge and 5G
Editor’s note: 5G is much more than a network—it’s a platform for innovation with the ability to provide immediate global scale and enable use cases that we haven’t even dreamed of yet. But to achieve this, industry players must come together to drive this growing ecosystem. Today, Erik Ekudden, CTO of Ericsson, and Bikash Koley, […]
AWS – AWS WAF adds 15 new text transformations
AWS WAF now supports 15 additional text transformations, allowing you to reformat web requests to remove any unusual formatting, or sanitize input before rule evaluation. It can be used to identify threats that may be obscured by attackers in an effort to bypass detection. You can use these new text transformations with WAF rule statements, […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Chat now supports Apple Business Chat (Generally Available)
With the Apple Business Chat integration in Amazon Connect, your customers can interact with you using the Apple Messages application on their iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Your customers can now have an experience that is as familiar and convenient as chatting with a friend, while using rich customer service features like interactive messages to do things […]