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GCP – Online shopping gets a boost from Cloud SQL
Editor’s note: With the events of 2020 driving an enormous shift to online shopping, martech provider Bluecore was in prime position. One of our Google Cloud Tech Partners for the Year in Retail, Bluecore offers a marketing platform to over 400 retail brands that combines data and predictive intelligence for targeted campaigns. Here, we look […]
Azure – Azure Sphere OS version 20.12 is now available for evaluation
The 20.12 release includes enhancements and bug fixes in the Azure Sphere OS. It does not include an updated SDK. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing Three New Digital Courses for AWS Snowcone
We are excited to introduce three free digital courses to help you learn how to order, configure, deploy, manage, and return AWS Snowcone edge computing and storage devices. Designed for storage engineers, cloud architects, and migration engineers, these introductory and intermediate courses include reading modules, video demonstrations, and quizzes. The time required to complete each […]
AWS – AWS Managed Services (AMS) supports AWS Outposts
AWS Managed Services (AMS) can now operate AWS workloads hosted on AWS Outposts in your datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises environment. You can accelerate your migration to the cloud with AMS managed IT services for AWS Outposts hosted resources, including incident, problem, patch, and security management. AMS takes responsibility for managing AWS Outposts and resources […]
GCP – Launching code you didn’t write: Shipping Next 2020 demos at scale
Our biggest conference of the year couldn’t happen in person. We’ve pushed everything online. That’s fine, we’re Google, we know how to do websites. And demos. And apps. We got this! Turns out there were some hiccups along the way. Settle down with your favorite beverage, I’d like to tell you a story. Back in […]
GCP – Cloud Run is now one year old: a look back
Cloud Run is built on a simple premise: combine the flexibility of containers with the simplicity, scalability, and productivity of serverless. In a few clicks, you can use Cloud Run to continuously deploy your Git repository to a fully managed environment that autoscales your containers behind a secure HTTPS endpoint. And because Cloud Run is […]
Azure – Azure Monitor for Windows Virtual Desktop in public preview
Azure Monitor for Windows Virtual Desktop is a new capability that provides a centralized monitoring view to help you identify and troubleshoot issues with Windows Virtual Desktop. Read More for the details.
GCP – Traffic Director takes application networking beyond Google Cloud
Whether you run services in Google Cloud, on-premises, in other clouds, or all of the above, the fundamental challenges of application networking remain the same: How do you get traffic to these services? And how do these services talk to each other? Traffic Director is a fully managed control plane for service mesh and load […]
GCP – Joining fans and artists in perfect harmony with Cloud SQL
Editor’s note: We’re hearing today from Songkick, a U.K.-based concert discovery service owned by Warner Music Group. Annually, Songkick helps over 175 million music fans from all around the world to track their favorite artists, discover concerts and live streams, and buy tickets with confidence online and via their mobile apps and website. Here’s how […]
GCP – Simplify creating data pipelines for media with Spotify’s Klio
On any given day, music streaming service Spotify might process an audio file a hundred different ways—identifying a track’s rhythm and tempo, timestamping beats, and measuring loudness—as well as more sophisticated processing, such as detecting languages and separating vocals from instruments. This might be done to develop a new feature, to help inform playlists and […]