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GCP – Helping small business customers think big with help from cloud technology
Editor’s note: Keap selected Google Cloud initially to overcome scalability issues related to on-premises data centers. Here, we’ll look at how moving to the cloud helped Keap overcome those challenges with a whole range of Google products to bring always-on, mission-critical services to its users—and free up the time and resources to develop and push […]

GCP – Data champions: How the Golden State Warriors are turning on-court data into a competitive advantage
The Google Cloud and the Golden State Warriors (GSW) partnership began in 2019 and launched with the opening of the Chase Center, the state-of-the-art sports and entertainment venue in San Francisco. As the public cloud provider for the Warriors, we also joined forces to help transform the franchise through data-driven decision making. Today, the Warriors […]

GCP – City of San Jose ensures critical services reach community using AI translation
San José is one of the most diverse U.S. cities, with residents speaking more than 100 languages. Several years ago, we set out to improve city community interactions through more equitable service management and delivery. This demanded a new approach to automating the intake of requests from a majority population whose first language is not […]

GCP – Stepping up business transformation with SAP RISE and Google Cloud
The global pandemic has accelerated the digital transformations of many businesses. For the tens of thousands of customers who run SAP, this has meant accelerating the migration of SAP workloads to the cloud as businesses seek greater agility, elasticity, uptime, and benefits from cutting edge cloud AI, ML, and analytics capabilities. In that context, SAP’s […]

GCP – Save the date for Google Cloud Next ‘21: October 12-14, 2021
We’re excited to announce that Google Cloud Next ‘21 will be taking place from October 12-14, 2021. We hope you will join us for keynotes from industry luminaries and interactive learning opportunities with top Google developers. Learn how the world’s leading companies are solving their biggest challenges in the cloud, and hear firsthand about their […]

AWS – AWS Certificate Manager now provides certificate expiry monitoring through Amazon CloudWatch
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now publishes certificate metrics and events through Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EventBridge. Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates are used to secure network communication and establish the identity of websites over the internet. Certificates have a defined lifetime and for continued use need to be renewed before they expire. These new metrics […]

GCP – Peer reviewed ‘allow’ and ‘deny’ software installation decisions to enable scalable protection
Among the controls any IT organization needs to have firmly in place, nothing ranks higher than blocking malware. As opposed to a “default allow” policy, which blocks only known bad software, the safer way to do that is through a “default deny” policy that blocks everything except allowed software. The obvious difficulty is that the […]

AWS – Amazon VPC Flow Logs now reflects AWS Service name, Traffic Path and Flow Direction
You can now add four additional metadata fields in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs, namely flow-direction, traffic-path, pkt-src-aws-service and pkt-dst-aws-service. With these enriched fields you can derive insights into the AWS services that your workloads are communicating with, differentiate between ingress and egress traffic flows and identify the next hop of […]

AWS – Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) region
Customers in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region can now use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). Read More for the details.
GCP – Reducing risk through credit card fraud detection
Practically every company relies on credit card transactions to fuel their business and facilitate the exchange of funds. In fact, many companies, especially those with digitally focused missions, now only accept credit card payments. This market saturation has attracted a wave of bad actors looking to use the credit card momentum to their advantage. Global […]