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GCP – The Ops Agent is now GA and it includes OpenTelemetry
Running and troubleshooting production services requires deep visibility into your applications and infrastructure. While basic logs and metrics are available out of the box with Google Cloud Compute Engine (GCE), capturing advanced data used to require the installation of both a metrics agent and a logging agent. Today, we’re happy to announce the General Availability […]
GCP – Faster Cloud Storage transfers using the gcloud command-line
It’s surprising just how many business problems boil down to how quickly you can fill a bucket— particularly when that bucket is in Cloud Storage and you’re trying to fill it with data from a Compute Engine instance. While there are products like Storage Transfer Service that help move large amounts of data quickly, sometimes […]
GCP – Crux chose BigQuery for rock-solid, cost-effective data delivery
Editor’s note: Today, we’re hearing from data engineering and operations company Crux Informatics about how BigQuery helps them achieve rock-solid, cost-effective data delivery. At Crux Informatics, our mission is to get data flowing by removing obstacles in the delivery and ingestion of data at scale. We want to remove any friction across the data supply […]
GCP – Announcing the winners of our Google Cloud 2020 Partner Awards
Today, we are thrilled to announce our 2020 Google Cloud Partner award winners. These partners achieved exceptional results under extraordinary circumstances. We have been inspired by how these partners have collaborated, innovated, and supported our customers in truly incredible ways this past year. Day in and day out, our Google Cloud partners work tirelessly to […]
GCP – New Google Cloud Security offerings, just announced in the Government Security Summit keynote
This morning, Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, and I kicked off the Google Cloud Government Security Summit with a keynote address that announced a set of offerings to help federal, state, and local government organizations implement Zero Trust architecture in accordance with the White House’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, and in […]
GCP – Physicians say better data interoperability will save lives
COVID-19 affirmed the importance of data in healthcare, as the world rose to the challenge of understanding and fighting the pandemic. For decades, patient data has been stuck in silos, forcing physicians and caregivers to hunt across multiple sources for various bits of information to create a complete picture of a patient’s health. This lack […]
GCP – Advancing our trusted cloud with engineered-in, invisible security
Security has risen to the forefront of concerns for enterprises and governments around the globe. Attacks ripping across the software supply chain, zero-day issues in widely used email services, and ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure industries all provide evidence that adversaries are getting bolder, more successful and more prevalent. Despite these increasing risks, many security […]
GCP – Extending our Trusted Cloud: Introducing Cloud IDS for Network-based Threat Detection
Every day, Google Cloud helps customers around the world stay ahead of evolving threats and keep their workloads safe. Today, we’re advancing these efforts with Cloud IDS, our new network security offering, which is now available in preview. With Cloud IDS, we’re extending our trusted cloud with native network-based threat detection capabilities to help you […]
Azure – Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the Canada East region
Azure VMware Solution has expanded availability to Canada East. With this release Canada East is now the second region within the Canadian sovereign area to become available (joining Canada Central). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports streaming transcription in Amazon Web Services China
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. We are excited to announce streaming transcription support in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD. Read More for […]
