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Azure – General availability: Cross region Restore of SQL/SAP HANA running in Azure VM
General availability of Cross Region Restore of SQL/SAP HANA databases running in Azure VM allows to restore data in the secondary region for compliance/audit and outage scenarios. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Blob index tags now generally available
Azure Blob index tags now generally available. Blob index tags allows developers and IT Pros to first tag specific blobs (for example, StoreID = "1234") and then filter or query for all blobs to more easily find or use them. Read More for the details.
GCP – Expanding access to quantum today for a better tomorrow
The next technological revolution is quantum computing. It has nearly limitless potential to enable transformative breakthroughs in human health and longevity, climate change and energy production, artificial intelligence, and more. But quantum computing can’t change the world unless we empower users from all walks of life with quick and easy access to the technology. That’s […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Data Explorer and subnet delegation
Injecting an Azure Data Explorer cluster into a virtual network has never been easier. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Maintenance control for Virtual Machine Scale Sets OS image upgrades
Take control of OS image upgrades on your virtual machine scale sets by using the new maintenance control feature. Now you can update at the time chosen by you with all the safety checks in place. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 D3 instances with dense local HDD storage now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3 instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Read More for the details.
GCP – [guide] The future of collaboration and productivity
As Google’s productivity adviser, I’ve been closely following the evolving discussion around the future of work. Long before the pandemic, employees, business leaders, and analysts were already thinking about how work needed to evolve, but the crisis brought the future cascading into the present. Virtually overnight, millions of companies and workers went remote and stayed […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra adds support for new AWS Regions
Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra to build intelligent search applications in the Canada (Central) and US East (Ohio) AWS Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Gateway Load Balancer is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Gateway Load Balancer is now available in both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The expansion into the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions enables U.S. government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by helping them to address certain regulatory and compliance requirements. With this launch, AWS Gateway Load Balancer is now available […]
GCP – How to get the most from Cloud SQL for SQL Server
At Google Cloud, we believe moving to the cloud shouldn’t have to mean starting over from scratch. That’s why we’re on a mission to give you choices for how you run your enterprise workloads, including migrating and modernizing your Windows workloads. In 2019, we launched Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server so you can bring […]