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GCP – Three lessons learned from a year of COVID-19 response
The past year has been a challenging one. The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed the way the world operates, and has created new information and logistical challenges for both communities and public health officials. Over the past year, we have been working closely with city, state, and federal officials to aid in the pandemic response, […]
GCP – Four ways CSPs can harness data, automation, and AI to create business value
Telecommunications companies sit on a veritable goldmine of data they can use to drive new business opportunities, improve customer experiences, and increase efficiencies. There’s so much data, in fact, that a significant challenge lies in ingesting, processing, refining, and using that data efficiently enough to inform decision-making as quickly as possible—often in near real-time. According […]
GCP – Batter up! Anthos for bare metal helps MLB gear up for upcoming season
It’s been a long, cold winter, after a long, strange year. The global pandemic impacted the last baseball season, and it may do so again. But Spring Training is finally here, which is all about optimism and new beginnings. We’re excited for this season, and we’re really excited about our new architecture powered by Anthos […]
GCP – TELUS International migrates key customer experience app to Google Cloud
As more services and applications go online, ensuring a frictionless customer experience is vital to building brand loyalty, capturing more sales, and optimizing profits. But if your underlying technology isn’t reliable, it’s easy to lose customers to the competition. For TELUS International, a leading digital customer experience innovator, ensuring the reliability of its online tools […]
GCP – Meet the EMEA startups and scaleups redefining their industries with cloud technology
Be they technology, fintech, gaming, or retail, examples abound of industries being disrupted and redefined by startups and scaleups. EMEA has become a hub of innovation, and we’re proud to say that many of these movers and shakers are Google Cloud customers. At the Google Cloud Born-Digital Summit on 25 March, we will gather technology […]
Azure – AzCopy v10.9.0 now in public preview: import from GCP to Azure Block Blobs
AzCopy v10.9.0 now in preview supports Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Microsoft Azure Storage Block Blob imports. This version also includes scanning logs which can help in debugging. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon and Red Hat announce the General Availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)
Containers have proven popular with AWS and Red Hat customers because they increase developer velocity, improve application portability, and enable faster application development. Currently, AWS offers a broad range of containers technology in the cloud, including Amazon Elastic Containers Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS with AWS Fargate. Now […]
AWS – AWS Snowcone is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia
The AWS Snowcone service is now available for order for customers in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. With this launch, Snowcone is now available for order in Asia Pacific (Sydney), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon) Regions. AWS Snowcone is the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family […]
AWS – Announcing General Availability of AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect
Today, we are announcing the general availability of ML Detect, a new feature of AWS IoT Device Defender that automatically detects device-level operational and security anomalies across your IoT fleet by learning from your past data. Now, in addition to being able to manually set static alarms with AWS IoT Device Defender Rules Detect, you […]
GCP – Picture this: 10 whiteboard sketch videos that bring Google Cloud to life
If you’re looking for a visual way to learn Google Cloud products, we’ve got you covered. The Google Cloud Tech YouTube channel has a series of whiteboard (remember those?) drawing board videos that explain cloud tools for technical practitioners in about 5 minutes each. 1. What is Cloud Storage? Cloud Storage is a global, secure and scalable […]