Welcome to above the clouds
Azure – Azure Blob storage—Network File System 3.0 protocol support public preview region expansion
NFS 3.0 support to block blob storage accounts with premium performance public preview regions now include: Australia Southeast, North Europe, UK West, Korea Central, Korea South, West Central US. Read More for the details.
Azure – Line numbers in Log Analytics query editor
Log Analytics query editor now show line numbers when composing a query Read More for the details.
Azure – Log Analytics new System Center configuration blade
System center configuration now has it’s own dedicated blade in Log Analytics. Read More for the details.
Azure – Data Factory managed virtual network support is now in public preview
Run your data integration pipelines in an isolated and highly secure environment. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Middle East (Bahrain), Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions
CloudWatch Synthetics allows you to monitor your REST APIs, URLs, and website content every minute, 24×7, and alerts you when your application endpoints don’t behave as expected. CloudWatch Synthetics enables you to continually verify your customer experience even when there is no customer traffic on your applications. This lets you discover issues before your customers […]
GCP – 6 tips for database pros to adapt to cloud data warehouses
Data warehouse modernization affects both people and technology. For IT professionals like database administrators (DBAs) who run legacy architectures, using a cloud data warehouse means you no longer have to spend the bulk of your time on tedious activities like testing, patching, upgrading, and managing backups. It can also free you from the impossible task […]
GCP – How fleet management gets easier with smart analytics on Google Cloud
Editor’s note: This blog provides a deeper, under-the-hood view of this smart analytics platform demo that you can explore now, featured during Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has changed consumer purchasing behavior and, consequently, how companies need to manage their transportation logistics to meet new expectations. With large fleets of trucks […]
GCP – Accelerating Mayo Clinic’s data platform with BigQuery and Variant Transforms
Genomic data is some of the most complex and vital data that our customers and strategic partners like Mayo Clinic work with. Many of them want to work with genomic variant data, which is the set of differences between a given sample and a reference genome, in order to diagnose patients and discover new treatments. […]
GCP – Helping retailers prepare for the 2020 holiday season
Although summer is a time when many of us are thinking about sunshine and weekend trips to the beach, for retailers, summer means important preparation for the holiday season, the most important sales period of the year. The typical holiday season presents retailers with familiar challenges: increased product demand, planning in-store seasonal staffing, supply chain […]
GCP – COVID-19 public datasets: our continued commitment to open, accessible data
Back in March, we announced that new COVID-19 public datasets would be joining our Google Cloud Public Datasets program to increase access to critical datasets to support the global response to the novel coronavirus. While the program initially focused on COVID-19 case data, we’ve since expanded our datasets offering to provide additional value to members […]