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GCP – How banks can build resilience into core systems and accelerate a return to innovation in 2021
Banks have an important role to play in the post-pandemic economic recovery. According to an EY Future Consumer Index study, more than eight out of 10 people are worried about their financial position, and 25% believe it may take years before they return to a state of stability. Banks can help by providing businesses access […]

GCP – ESG quantifies benefits of moving Microsoft workloads to Google Cloud
Customers tell us there are many benefits and opportunities to reduce costs that can be unlocked from migrating and modernizing Microsoft and Windows Server-based workloads to Google Cloud. We recently worked with the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) to run an economic validation study across Google Cloud customers who have migrated or modernized their Microsoft and […]

GCP – Practicing the science of where with Esri ArcGIS on Google Cloud
For the past 18 years Google has been working to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Today, much of the data being generated is location-aware and the questions people are asking center on “where.” Where can I be tested for COVID-19? Where is early voting? Where is there a coffee […]

GCP – Google Cloud initiatives offer researchers critical support during the pandemic
The global pandemic has not only transformed our daily lives, it’s also transforming how academic research is conducted. With many campus labs and facilities closed, researchers struggle with a lack of access to the enormous compute power today’s scientific advances depend upon. And, according to a November 2020 McKinsey & Company report, the challenges of […]

GCP – Updates on Google collaborations with Cisco featured at WebexOne
Over the past three years, Google Cloud has worked closely with Cisco to deliver a number of customer-focused solutions in areas such as hybrid cloud, multicloud, work transformation, and contact center integrations. Earlier this week, we were excited to share updates on our joint work in the collaboration space atWebexOne, Cisco’s digital collaboration conference, which […]

GCP – Dataproc Hub makes notebooks easier to use for machine learning
Dataproc is a fast, easy-to-use, fully managed cloud service for running open source, such as Apache Spark, Presto, and Apache Hadoop clusters, in a simpler, more cost-efficient way. Today, with the general availability of Dataproc Hub, and the launch of our machine learning initialization action, we are making it easier for data scientists to use […]

GCP – Improve the data science experience using scalable Python data processing
Python has quickly solidified itself as one of the top languages for data scientists looking to prep, process, and analyze data for analytics and machine learning related use cases. Dask is a Python library for parallel computing with similar APIs to the most popular Python data science libraries such as Pandas, NumPy and scikit-learn. Dask’s […]

GCP – Faster machine learning on Dataproc with new initialization action
Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark are established and standard frameworks for distributed storage and data processing. Google Cloud’s Dataproc is a fast, easy-to-use, fully managed cloud service for running Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop clusters in a simple, cost-efficient way. For users looking to build machine learning models, you might use Dataproc for preprocessing your […]

Azure – Azure Storage account recovery available via portal is now generally available
Recover you deleted storage account directly from the portal. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and adds new box plot and filled map visuals
Amazon QuickSight dashboards can now visualize data from Amazon Elasticsearch Service. Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to deploy, secure, and run Elasticsearch cost effectively at scale. Authors in QuickSight can select Amazon Elasticsearch Service as a data source, select the specific data domain to analyze and […]