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AWS – NICE DCV releases version 2021.1 with accurate audio/video synchronization
NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that helps customers securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs. Read More for the details.

GCP – Chrome is easing the enterprise’s transition to hybrid work. Here’s how
It’s been quite a year. In general, and for work. Just the other day, I read a new study from Pew Research that shows 71% of people are currently working from home, and 50% of employees say they want to continue working from home at least three days a week. That’s more than half of […]

GCP – Introducing logical replication and decoding for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
Last week, we announced the Preview of Datastream, our serverless and easy-to-use change data capture and replication service. Datastream currently supports access to streaming, low-latency data from Oracle and MySQL databases into Google Cloud services such as Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, and BigQuery. With this in mind, we understand that our customers are using different […]

GCP – PedidosYa: BigQuery reduced our total cost per query by 5x
Editor’s note: PedidosYa is the market leader for online food ordering in Latin America, serving 15 markets and over 400 cities. It’s also one of the largest brands within the German multinational company Delivery Hero SE. With over 20 million app downloads, PedidosYa provides the best online delivery experience through 71,000+ online partners, including restaurants, […]

GCP – DevOps on Google Cloud: tools to speed up software development velocity
Editor’s note: Today we hear from ForgeRock, a multinational identity and access management software company with more than 1,100 enterprise customers, including a major public broadcaster. In total, customers use the ForgeRock Identity Platform to authenticate and log in over 45 million users daily, helping them manage identity, governance, and access management across all platforms, […]

GCP – New Cloud TPU VMs make training your ML models on TPUs easier than ever
Today, we’re excited to announce new Cloud TPU VMs, which make it easier than ever before to use our industry-leading TPU hardware by providing direct access to TPU host machines, offering a new and improved user experience to develop and deploy TensorFlow, PyTorch, and JAX on Cloud TPUs. Instead of accessing Cloud TPUs remotely over […]

AWS – NICE DCV releases web client SDK 1.0.1
NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that helps customers securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the April 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1. April 2021 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2, 18c, and 19c have already been launched. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Resource Health
Amazon CloudWatch Resource Health is a new feature that enables you to automatically discover, manage, and visualize the health and performance of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) hosts across your applications in a single view. With Resource Health, you can visualize the health of your Amazon EC2 hosts in a map (or list) view […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds automatic cross validation to improve model quality on smaller datasets by up to 35%
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. Starting today, Autopilot performs cross validation on input datasets under 50,000 rows for all problem types – regression, binary classification and multi class classification. With cross validation, you benefit […]