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GCP – Chrome Insider: Extension Management options through Group Policy
Many enterprises are looking to better manage extensions on their corporate devices. Extensions themselves are a great tool for productivity and customization of Chrome. However, some extensions can have the potential for far reaching rights to sites your users visit and devices they browse from, giving IT the desire to closely manage which extensions are […]
GCP – New This Month: From leadership in real-time streaming to intelligent data fabric and analytics exchanges
May was a very busy month for data analytics product innovation. If you didn’t have the chance to attend our inaugural Data Cloud Summit, video replays of all our sessions are now available so feel free to watch them at your own pace. In this blog, I’d like to share some background behind the innovations […]
GCP – New research reveals what’s needed for AI acceleration in manufacturing
While the promise of artificial intelligence transforming the manufacturing industry is not new, long-ongoing experimentation hasn’t yet led to widespread business benefits. Manufacturers remain in “pilot purgatory,” as Gartner reports that only 21% of companies in the industry have active AI initiatives in production. However, new research from Google Cloud reveals that the COVID-19 pandemic […]
GCP – Hola, South America! Announcing the Firmina subsea cable
Today, we’re announcing Firmina, an open subsea cable being built by Google that will run from the East Coast of the United States to Las Toninas, Argentina, with additional landings in Praia Grande, Brazil, and Punta del Este, Uruguay. Firmina will be the longest cable in the world capable of running entirely from a single […]
GCP – Supporting business transformation for German retailers with SAP on Google Cloud
The retail industry is rapidly evolving, with customers demanding exceptional digital experiences, and retailers adjusting their businesses to be more efficient. With many retailers relying on SAP for critical business functions like digital transactions, finance, supply chains and more, this shift has led them to look for ways to modernize these systems, deliver them on […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager is now FedRAMP-High Compliant
AWS Systems Manager is now compliant with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High baseline. With FedRAMP-High compliance, you can use AWS Systems Manager to gain operational insights and safely take actions on your workloads in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region’s authorization boundary. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now supports file access auditing
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now supports auditing end-user access to files, folders, and file shares. You can publish logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs or stream logs to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, enabling you to query, process, store, and archive logs and trigger actions to further advance your security and compliance goals. Read More […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora R6g instance types, powered by AWS Graviton2 processors, now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Graviton2-based database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility in GovCloud regions. Graviton2 instances are already generally available for Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, and Amazon RDS for MariaDB. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports Snowflake as a data source
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, cleansing, exploration, and visualization from a […]
GCP – How BIG is Cloud Bigtable?
“Building an application that needs low latency and high throughput?”—You need a database that can scale for a large number of reads and writes. Cloud Bigtable is designed to handle just that. Cloud Bigtable is a fully managed wide-column NoSQL database that scales to petabyte-scale. It’s optimized for low latency, large numbers of reads and […]