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GCP – Easier ways to shop right from email
Over the past few months, there’s been a massive acceleration in the growth of eCommerce. Reports show that online revenue is growing 5 times faster than pre-COVID growth, and conveniences such as buy-online-pick-up-in-store are showing signs of permanent adoption. As retail businesses continue to adapt to these changing behaviors, providing an easy and safe shopping […]
Azure – Azure Data Explorer now support Compute Isolated SKUs
Azure Data Explorer has added support for isolated compute SKU and ready for deployment. Read More for the details.
GCP – Democratizing Zero Trust with an expanded BeyondCorp Alliance
The need to quickly provide secure access for a newly remote workforce during the early days of COVID-19 drove many organizations to explore new technologies and start down a path towards a Zero Trust model. As time has passed, it’s become clear that remote work will be a defining characteristic of the new normal, and […]
GCP – First look: Google Meet for Glass Enterprise Edition 2
As the nature of work changes, we’re constantly finding new ways to make communication more efficient, reliable and secure. And our mission has never been more critical than in today’s remote work environment. Many businesses are adapting to new policies and procedures that keep workers safe. As a result, on-site essential workers—those whose roles cannot […]
GCP – Learn at no-cost how to get insights from your data, regardless of your analytics experience
Throughout October and November, Google Cloud is offering no-cost data analytics training. Regardless of whether you’ve just started learning how to get insights from your data or you already have significant data analytics experience, we have learning opportunities to help you take your skills to the next level. New to data analytics? If you’re new […]
AWS – Database Activity Streams for Amazon Aurora is available in four additional regions
Amazon Aurora now supports Database Activity Streams in the South America (Sao Paulo), Middle East (Bahrain), Africa (Cape Town), and Europe (Milan) regions. Database Activity Streams for Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility provides a near real-time stream of database activities in your relational database. When integrated with third party […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaLive Statmux adds MPEG2 support and other features
AWS Elemental MediaLive Statistical Multiplexing (Statmux) now supports MPEG-2 encoding. Broadcasters can now use the AWS cloud to perform MPEG-2 encoding to feed legacy devices with limited codec support, without needing to perform expensive upgrades of their customer’s or partner’s decoding devices. Now that MediaLive Statmux supports MPEG-2, and previously supported the AVC and HEVC […]
AWS – Announcing new digital curriculum: Moving to Managed Databases on AWS
This free new digital training curriculum contains modules that explain the benefits of and process for moving from self-managed databases to fully-managed database solutions in the cloud. The four-hour fundamental curriculum includes eight self-paced courses with video demonstrations and is designed for data platform engineers, database developers, and solutions architects. Read More for the details.
GCP – BigQuery explained: Blog series
BigQuery is positioned as a unique analytics data warehousing service with its serverless architecture that allows it to operate at scale and speed to provide incredibly fast SQL analytics over large datasets. We started a new blog series—BigQuery Explained—to uncover and explain BigQuery’s concepts, features and improvements. This blog post is the home page to […]
AWS – Amazon Rekognition adds support for six new content moderation categories
Amazon Rekognition content moderation is a deep learning-based service that can detect inappropriate, unwanted, or offensive images and videos, making it easier to find and remove such content at scale. Amazon Rekognition provides a detailed taxonomy of moderation categories such as ‘Explicit Nudity’, ‘Suggestive’, ‘Violence’, and ‘Visually Disturbing’. Starting today, customers can detect 6 new […]