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Azure – General availability: Maintenance control for Virtual Machine Scale Sets OS image upgrades
Take control of OS image upgrades on your virtual machine scale sets by using the new maintenance control feature. Now you can update at the time chosen by you with all the safety checks in place. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 D3 instances with dense local HDD storage now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3 instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Read More for the details.
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GCP – [guide] The future of collaboration and productivity
As Google’s productivity adviser, I’ve been closely following the evolving discussion around the future of work. Long before the pandemic, employees, business leaders, and analysts were already thinking about how work needed to evolve, but the crisis brought the future cascading into the present. Virtually overnight, millions of companies and workers went remote and stayed […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra adds support for new AWS Regions
Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra to build intelligent search applications in the Canada (Central) and US East (Ohio) AWS Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Gateway Load Balancer is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Gateway Load Balancer is now available in both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The expansion into the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions enables U.S. government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by helping them to address certain regulatory and compliance requirements. With this launch, AWS Gateway Load Balancer is now available […]
GCP – How to get the most from Cloud SQL for SQL Server
At Google Cloud, we believe moving to the cloud shouldn’t have to mean starting over from scratch. That’s why we’re on a mission to give you choices for how you run your enterprise workloads, including migrating and modernizing your Windows workloads. In 2019, we launched Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server so you can bring […]
GCP – New training helps you get started with GKE—for free!
Kubernetes adoption continues to grow unabated across all industries. This fall, 91% of IT and security professionals reported that their businesses are using Kubernetes for container orchestration. Now, technical professionals are faced with figuring out how to make the most of Kubernetes. For many businesses, a cloud provider’s managed Kubernetes service offers a more convenient […]
GCP – From multiple clouds to multicloud: Key factors that influence success
As your organization evolves, the cloud can be a powerful tool to drive growth, improve efficiency, and reduce costs. In fact, the cloud is so powerful that most organizations find themselves running on multiple clouds—a full 92% of enterprises surveyed by Flexera1 reported adopting a deliberate multicloud strategy in some way, shape, or form: on […]
GCP – Expanding partner solutions at the network edge
High-speed connectivity to the network edge is growing. As it does, organizations with presences at the edge have opportunities to apply digital technologies and cloud capabilities that can streamline business processes, create exciting new experiences for consumers, uncover insights from data at the edge, and more. Late last year, we announced a new initiative to […]
GCP – New Tau VMs deliver leading price-performance for scale-out workloads
Scale-out workloads demand the best combination of performance and price to bring down the cost of delivering applications, all while providing an excellent user experience. We are excited to announce a new virtual machine (VM) family, Tau VMs, coming to Google Cloud. Tau VMs extend Compute Engine’s VM offerings with a new option optimized for […]