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GCP – Three months, 30x demand: How we scaled Google Meet during COVID-19
As COVID-19 turned our world into a more physically distant one, many people began looking to online video conferencing to maintain social, educational, and workplace contact. As shown in the graph below, this shift has driven huge numbers of additional users to Google Meet.The continental peak session count dictated how much serving capacity we needed […]
GCP – Now you can style commercial corridors with cloud-based maps styling
Whether you’re helping your users shop for a home or plan a staycation, chances are one of the things they’re most interested in is understanding proximity to shopping and restaurants. Many cities have specific areas or districts where these types of businesses are concentrated, which often makes them the most vibrant and popular places. We […]
GCP – Logs-based Security Alerting in Google Cloud: Detecting attacks in Cloud Identity
Shifting from an on-premise model to a cloud-based one opens up new opportunities when it comes to logging and securing your workloads. In this series of blog posts, we’ll cover some cloud-native technologies you can use to detect security threats and alert on logs in Google Cloud. The end result will be an end-to-end logs-based […]
GCP – Fast Restart: A powerful new tool to help improve SAP HANA uptime
There are plenty of things in life where “good enough” is a worthy goal. But if you’re a SAP administrator, you know that “good enough” simply isn’t when it comes to reducing system downtime and achieving faster restart times on your business-critical SAP HANA environments. Of course, when you’re pursuing perfection, some tactics are better […]
GCP – New best practices to help automate more secure Cloud deployments
Organizations move to the cloud for many reasons, from improved efficiency, to ease of management, to better security. That’s right, one of the most important benefits of moving to the cloud is the opportunity to establish a robust baseline security and compliance posture. But it doesn’t just magically happen. While you can depend on Google […]
GCP – New multi-region configurations for Spanner in Asia and Europe
Cloud Spanner is Google Cloud’s massively scalable relational database service. A core tenet of Spanner’s vision has been ensuring high availability of applications with external strong consistency. In support of this, we’ve launched two new multi-regions of Spanner that offer 99.999% availability: the Asia multi-region (asia1) and the Europe multi-region (eur5). More multi-regions allow you […]
Azure – Azure Monitor for containers with Azure Portal now supports Kubernetes resource view
Azure monitor for containers with Azure portal now supports new Kubernetes resource view. In this new view you can diagnose the issue by drilling down to resource types including deployments, pods, and replica sets & see historical data trend and overall usage over time. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS AppSync releases Direct Lambda Resolvers for GraphQL APIs
Today we’re releasing a new way to interact with AWS Lambda data sources via GraphQL and AppSync: Direct Lambda Resolvers. With Direct Lambda Resolvers you can now build flexible GraphQL resolvers in the runtime of your choice, without VTL. Read More for the details.
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Knowledge Work Automator
Knowledge Work Automator is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer from Pariveda which helps customers reduce the manual labor associated with knowledge work by using AI to automate repetitive tasks. Vast amounts of unstructured data must be sifted through in several industries: in Healthcare, for patient notes, in manufacturing for engineering drawings, in legal for case documents, […]
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Fog360 Security
Fog360 Security is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer, delivered via a consulting engagement from Foghorn, an AWS DevOps and AWS Security Competency Partner. Fog360 Security is a comprehensive security analysis and visualization service that updates and automates a previously complex and manual process. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that […]