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GCP – Introducing Leaptakers, a celebration of IT’s great leaps
IT teams are the masters of modern marvels, behind some of humanity’s greatest feats. From the first circuits, to quantum computing, to the cloud, tech experts have taken great leaps to engineer the seemingly impossible. In the past year alone, IT has moved mountains to keep the world working. Digital transformations that may have previously […]

GCP – Vida Health invigorates virtual healthcare with Google Cloud solutions
Editor’s note: In this guest blog, we look at how healthcare startup Vida Health built a virtual platform on Google Cloud that cut costs and overhead, saves healthcare providers valuable time, and delivers machine learning capabilities that operationalize their data for better patient health outcomes. At Vida Health, our virtual healthcare platform is designed to […]

GCP – HTTP/3 gets your content there QUIC, with Cloud CDN and Load Balancing
When it comes to the performance of internet-facing applications, HTTP/3 is no small step over HTTP/2: Google’s own roll-out of HTTP/3 reduced Search latency by 2%, reduced video rebuffer times on YouTube by 9%, and improved throughput on mobile devices by 7%. So today, we’re excited to bring support for HTTP/3 to all Google Cloud […]

GCP – Streamline your real-time data pipeline with Datastream and MongoDB
In our constantly evolving digital world, the companies that come out on top are those that can access the data they need, when they need it. Accessing data in real time enables your company to analyze, plan and improve continuously, so you can make better strategic decisions and reduce your overall risk. Whether the goal […]

GCP – Improving cloud operations and migrations with Google Cloud and ServiceNow
When organizations embrace cloud as a core component of their IT operations, they have a number of options: a wholesale migration to the public cloud, incremental or large-scale hybrid deployments, private clouds, or even running services across multiple clouds. The modern enterprise has more options than ever before in terms of where to host any […]

GCP – Visual Inspection AI: a purpose-built solution for faster, more accurate quality control
Whether companies are manufacturing cars, semiconductor chips, smartphones, or food and beverages, production quality and yield are two of the industry’s top performance metrics. Poor production quality control results in significant operational and financial costs in the form of reworked parts, scrap generated, reduced yield, increased work in process inventory, post-sale recalls, warranty claims, and […]

GCP – Scaling Virtual Support in the Pandemic Era
Scaling Virtual Support in the Pandemic Era: The AI Connection Since the early days of the pandemic, we’ve partnered with government organizations and academic institutions to serve communities at scale with Contact Center Artificial Intelligence (CCAI). I sat down with Bill MacKenzie, IT liaison for the Upper Grand School District in Ontario, and Marco Palermo, […]

AWS – Announcing a new Public Registry for AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation announces the launch of the CloudFormation Public Registry, a new searchable collection of extensions that allows you to discover, provision, and manage third-party extensions, which include resource types (provisioning logic) and modules published by AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners and the developer community. You can also create and publish your own extensions on the CloudFormation […]

AWS – Amazon RDS supports MariaDB Audit Plugin for MySQL version 8.0
The MariaDB audit plug-in is now available for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL instances using MySQL major version 8.0. The MariaDB audit plug-in is also available for instances using MySQL major versions 5.6 and 5.7, and provides event logging for database activity to help customers meet compliance and audit requirements, and troubleshoot application […]
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now helps you monitor and improve application read/write performance and throughput by using new Amazon CloudWatch metrics
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now helps you monitor and improve application read/write performance and throughput by using new Amazon CloudWatch metrics. Read More for the details.