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Azure – Azure Blob storage—NFS 3.0 protocol support public preview now expands to all regions
Starting today, Azure Blob Storage NFS 3.0 preview supports general purpose v2 (GPV2) storage accounts with standard tier performance in all publicly available regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Cloud Assessment and Design
Cloud Assessment and Design is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Atos, an AWS Migration Competency Partner. Cloud Assessment and Design leverages the Atos Cloud Assessment Tool (ACAT) to transform a customer’s IT landscape in their journey to the cloud with a detailed approach and business use case. Customers that […]
Azure – Azure Security Center: Public preview updates for April 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure Security Center in April 2021. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Security Center: General availability updates for April 2021
New enhancements and updates released for general availability (GA) in Azure Security Center in April 2021. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Maps- new Gen2 pricing model available
Get new Azure Maps features and potential cost savings with Gen2 pricing. Read More for the details.
GCP – Southwire powers digital transformation with its SAP cloud migration
“Talk about tough times, right?” That’s how Dan Stuart, Senior Vice President of IT Services at Southwire Company, refers to the months following a December 2019 ransomware event, and the COVID crisis that began in spring of 2020. Those events hit just as the company was preparing for an overhaul of their SAP environment. This […]
GCP – OpenTelemetry Trace 1.0 is now available
For decades, application development and operations teams have struggled with the best way to generate, collect, and analyze telemetry data from systems and apps. In 2010, we discussed our approach to telemetry and tracing in the Dapper papers, which eventually spawned the open-source OpenCensus project, which merged with OpenTracing to become OpenTelemetry. OpenTelemetry provides a […]
GCP – New blueprint helps secure confidential data in AI Platform Notebooks
Core to Google Cloud’s efforts to be the industry’s most Trusted Cloud is our belief in shared fate – taking an active stake to help customers achieve better security outcomes on our platforms. To make it easier to build security into deployments, we provide opinionated guidance for customers in the form of security blueprints. We […]
GCP – Take the 2021 State of DevOps survey: Shape the future of DevOps
Today, Google Cloud and the DORA research team are excited to announce the launch of the 2021 State of DevOps survey. The survey takes approximately 25 minutes to complete and we’d love to hear from you. Your answers will allow us to better understand the practices that teams are employing to improve software delivery performance […]
GCP – Cloud computing 101: Frequently asked questions
There are a number of terms and concepts in cloud computing, and not everyone is familiar with all of them. To help, we’ve put together a list of common questions, and the meanings of a few of those acronyms. You can find all these, and many more, in our learning resources. What are containers? Containers […]