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GCP – At Ericsson and Google Cloud, imagining the future of edge and 5G
Editor’s note: 5G is much more than a network—it’s a platform for innovation with the ability to provide immediate global scale and enable use cases that we haven’t even dreamed of yet. But to achieve this, industry players must come together to drive this growing ecosystem. Today, Erik Ekudden, CTO of Ericsson, and Bikash Koley, […]
AWS – AWS WAF adds 15 new text transformations
AWS WAF now supports 15 additional text transformations, allowing you to reformat web requests to remove any unusual formatting, or sanitize input before rule evaluation. It can be used to identify threats that may be obscured by attackers in an effort to bypass detection. You can use these new text transformations with WAF rule statements, […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Chat now supports Apple Business Chat (Generally Available)
With the Apple Business Chat integration in Amazon Connect, your customers can interact with you using the Apple Messages application on their iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Your customers can now have an experience that is as familiar and convenient as chatting with a friend, while using rich customer service features like interactive messages to do things […]
Azure – Expansion of the public preview of on-demand disk bursting for Premium SSD to more regions
The preview of on-demand disk bursting for Premium SSDs P30 and greater (lager than 512 GiB) is now expanded to all production regions. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google joins the O-RAN Alliance to advance telecommunication networks
At Google, we believe that co-innovation with customers, partners, and technology vendors as part of a broader ecosystem is critical to accelerating industry digital transformation. From our contribution to open standards, to our commitment to open source and our continued focus and expansion of Google’s vibrant partner network, we are committed to drive transformative change […]
GCP – Top 25 Google Search terms, now in BigQuery
Today we’re announcing preview availability of a new public dataset for Google Trends. For the first time we’re bringing Google-owned Search data into Google Cloud Datasets for convenient analysis in BigQuery, or through your favorite business intelligence tools. For over a decade, Google Trends has provided a sample of Google Search data. Continuing to lead […]
GCP – Mrs. T’s Pierogies: Improved forecasting and DR with SAP on Google Cloud
Pierogies might just be the ultimate comfort food. But when Mrs. T’s Pierogies — the leading manufacturer of frozen pierogies in the US — learned it needed to transition its existing on-premises SAP ECC to S/4HANA, the company sought a little comfort for itself. Founded in 1952, Mrs. T’s Pierogies now produces more than 650 […]
Azure – Introducing the Ingestion Client for Azure Speech
Ingestion Client in conjunction with Azure Speech allows customers to transcribe audio files without any development effort. Whether you have few or millions of file Azure will transcribe those securely and quickly. Read More for the details.
GCP – Running older SQL Server (< 2017) databases on Cloud SQL for SQL Server
If you have databases running on SQL Server instances with versions older than 2017, you may be wondering if you can run those databases on Cloud SQL and how. Let’s break the SQL Server footprint down into three distinct parts: Edition refers to the licensing level of SQL server – of which Cloud SQL currently […]
GCP – 5 things you didn’t know about the new Tau VMs
Google Cloud Compute VMs are built on the same global infrastructure that runs Google’s search engine, Gmail, YouTube and other services. And over the years, we’ve continued to launch more and more Compute family and VMs types to serve your workload needs at the price point you’re looking for. When you take a bird’s eye […]