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GCP – Leading with Google Cloud to modernize infrastructure in healthcare
It’s simply amazing to witness how some of our systems integrators employ Google Cloud solutions to drive innovation in ways we at Google may never have considered—especially in healthcare. According to analyst firm MarketsandMarkets, the market for the Cloud in healthcare is projected to grow 43% between 2020 and 2025 to nearly $65 billion, fueled […]
GCP – What you need to know about Confidential Computing
This blog includes content from Episode One “Confidentially Speaking” of our Cloud Security Podcast, hosted by Anton Chuvakin (Head of Solutions Strategy) and Timothy Peacock (Product Manager). You should listen to the whole conversation for more insights and deeper context. Related Article Read Article We all deal with a lot of sensitive data and today, […]
GCP – Private Catalog: Improving Terraform deployment management experiences
As an enterprise admin, when you choose to use Google Cloud Private Catalog to enable curated, self-serve Google Cloud infrastructure provisioning, you need the ability to manage your organization’s deployments. Today, we’re pleased to announce support for several improvements to Terraform driven deployments through Private Catalog. With this new release, you can update Terraform configurations […]
GCP – How The Home Depot helps doers get more done with SAP and Google Cloud
With nearly 2,300 stores, The Home Depot is the world’s largest home-improvement chain — a brand that professional contractors and DIYers alike have come to depend on. The home improvement industry continues to experience unprecedented demand and dramatic increases in online ordering accompanied by expanding consumer expectations for things like curbside pickup and same day […]
GCP – Blue-sky thinking: how Sky is reimagining their FinOps journey
Google Cloud’s partnership with Sky Group, one of Europe’s largest media and entertainment companies, dates back more than four years to when Sky first became a Google Cloud customer moving diagnostic data from millions of its Sky Q TV boxes to its Google Cloud data platform. In June 2019, a few years into their cloud […]
GCP – Use Cloud SQL Read Replicas to separate your analytics and production workloads
Cloud SQL for SQL Server now includes Read Replicas as a preview release feature. Cloud SQL for MySQL and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL both include Read Replicas as a general availability (GA) feature. This blog post will walk you through the steps to create a Cloud SQL Read Replica that you can use for your read-only […]
GCP – Exclusive Preview: Google Cloud fireside chat with Dimitri Alperovitch, Founder and Former CTO of CrowdStrike
As I was preparing for my fireside chat with Dmitri Alperovitch, Founder and Former CTO of CrowdStrike and Executive Chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator for the Google Cloud Government Security Summit taking place on Tuesday, July 20th, I was reflecting about recent developments in cybersecurity, Zero Trust best practices – including aspects of Google’s […]
AWS – Amazon Athena expands Apache Hudi support
Amazon Athena has updated its integration with Apache Hudi to support new features and the latest 0.8.0 community release. Hudi is an open-source data management framework used to simplify incremental data processing in S3 data lakes. The updated integration enables you to use Athena to query Hudi 0.8.0 tables managed via Amazon EMR, Apache Spark, Apache […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports updating the maintenance window time
You can now update the maintenance window start time for your Amazon MQ brokers. Every Amazon MQ broker has a weekly 2 hour maintenance window during which changes are applied. These changes can include broker version updates, configuration changes, or patching of the operating system and other system software. The maintenance window gives you control […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Edge Manager now integrates with AWS IoT Greengrass to simplify deployment to fleets of edge devices
Amazon SageMaker Edge Manager allows you to optimize, secure, monitor, and maintain machine learning (ML) models on fleets of smart cameras, robots, personal computers, and mobile devices. With SageMaker Edge Manager, you can use your own model deployment mechanism to bring model packages to edge devices. Starting today, SageMaker Edge Manager also integrates with AWS […]