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AWS – Introducing Amazon SageMaker JumpStart – Easily and quickly bring machine learning applications to market
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart helps you easily and quickly bring machine learning (ML) applications to market using pre-built solutions for common use cases and open source models from popular model zoos. Read More for the details.

GCP – Admin Essentials: Ready, set, Chrome—Improvements and polices to make Chrome more performant
From its inception, Chrome’s core principles have been the four S’s: speed, security, stability, and simplicity. Those principles guide us in the way we build Chrome. The first S—speed—is what has driven us to make Chrome one of the most performant browsers out there, and we are constantly finding ways to improve. Enterprise environments often […]

GCP – Just in time for TechEd, our latest innovations for SAP customers
With SAP TechEd kicking off this week, we thought it would be a good time to update you on the ways that Google Cloud continues to enhance our offerings for SAP customers. We’ve released new capabilities for both running SAP applications on Google Cloud as well as ways to get more out of your SAP […]

GCP – Unsiloing data to work toward solving food waste and food insecurity
While working on the Project Delta team, an early stage moonshot at X that was exploring new technologies to solve the pervasive problems of food waste and food insecurity, we worked closely with Kroger and Feeding America to transform and analyze datasets using Google Cloud. In this blog, we’ll talk about the technical effort of […]

GCP – Google Cloud named a leader in latest Forrester Research IaaS Platform Native Security Wave
The adoption of cloud services has created a generational opportunity to meaningfully improve information security and reduce risk. As an organization moves applications and data to the cloud, they can take advantage of native security capabilities in their cloud platform. Done well, use of these engineered-in platform capabilities can simplify security to the extent that […]

GCP – Silos are for food, not data — tackling food waste with technology
While 40% of food in America goes to waste, 35 million Americans (likely even more during this pandemic) are food-insecure—meaning they are without food or not sure where future meals will come from. In addition, food waste has been called the “world’s dumbest environmental problem.” As the pandemic continues, the food system is in the […]

GCP – Bringing partner applications to the edge with Google Cloud
While organizations around the world are increasingly running core business functions in the cloud, there are still many opportunities to help businesses leverage cloud capabilities at the edge of their networks, tapping into high-speed 5G connectivity. To help organizations do so, we announced our telecommunications strategy in early 2020, including a collaboration with AT&T to […]

GCP – Google Cloud Unveils New Offerings at its Global Public Sector Summit
At our Google Cloud Public Sector Summit, December 8-9, we are shining a light on the incredible ways that government and education have been using Google Cloud. Organizations have been innovating to improve the services that they bring to their communities locally and globally, even amidst the challenges of a pandemic. It’s hard to comprehend […]

GCP – Dataform is joining Google Cloud: Deploy data transformations with SQL in BigQuery
The value of data—and the insights it contains—only continues to grow, and Google has invested in technologies to empower teams to do more with that data for more than a decade. We were honored to be named a leader in Gartner’s first-ever Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS), and BigQuery, our cloud data […]
Azure – HoloLens 2 Development Edition expands to new markets
The Development Edition combines the capabilities of HoloLens 2 with Azure, Unity, and Pixyz to empower developers to build interactive experiences and render 3D holographic content with people, places, and things. Read More for the details.