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GCP – Stubhub’s path to retire the data center with Bare Metal Solution
Editor’s note: Today, we’re speaking with Austin Sheppard, CTO of StubHub, the world’s largest ticket marketplace. We’ll hear how Google Bare Metal Solution is helping StubHub on their journey into the cloud by reducing their dependency on Oracle, lowering overall costs, and driving performance. At StubHub, we’ve been at the very forefront of ticket marketplace […]
Azure – Public IP SKU upgrade generally available
Azure public IPs now support the ability to be upgraded from Basic to Standard SKU, enabling customers to retain the same IP address for services that require Standard IP frontends. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google Cloud and SAP demonstrate massive scalability for financial services customers
The mission: Proving a scale-out cloud solution for SAP financial products subledger delivers performance, scale and reliability When financial firms run a critical, resource-intensive application like SAP’s financial products subledger (FPSL), they have traditionally adopted a monolithic, single-node, scale-up architecture. But this type of system isn’t designed to sustain long-term growth. As these systems grow, […]
GCP – Going global: Workday uses Google Cloud AI to accelerate document processing
Scaling a business that sorts through millions of documents daily, across a global operation, is a tall order. Workday, with more than 3,400 core Workday Financial Management and Workday HCM customers, offers the Workday Expenses solution to provide a frictionless expense reporting experience for their customers. Here’s how they did it using Google Cloud’s Procurement […]
GCP – Powering open source healthcare research on Google Cloud
Google Cloud is pleased to announce our partnership with Odysseus Data Services to launch ATLAS on GCP. ATLAS is an open source application that is built and maintained by The Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) program. This program is a multi-stakeholder, interdisciplinary collaboration to create open-source solutions that bring out the value of […]
AWS – Amazon EMR now supports Apache Ranger for fine-grained data access control
Amazon EMR now natively integrates with Apache Ranger, allowing you to define, enforce, and audit fine-grained data access control. With this feature, you can define and enforce 1/ database, table, and column level authorization policies for Apache Spark and Apache Hive users to access data through Hive Metastore, and 2/ prefix and object level authorization […]
AWS – AWS App Mesh achieves PCI DSS Certification
AWS App Mesh is now certified as a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) service. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to standardize how your services communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and enables options to tune for high-availability of your applications. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS CloudFormation now supports AWS DataSync
Using AWS CloudFormation, you can now model and provision AWS DataSync resources, along with other resources within your AWS infrastructure, in a safe, predictable, and repeatable way. This enables you to standardize the creation of DataSync resources such as Tasks and Locations across deployments. Read More for the details.
GCP – Building a self-service microservices architecture with Cloud SQL
Editor’s note: We’re hearing today from Entegral, an integrated software platform that enables communication and collaboration between tens of thousands of collision repair shops, insurance providers, and other industry professionals around the world. Owned by Enterprise Holdings, the world’s largest car rental provider and operator of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car brand, Entegral builds apps that make […]
GCP – For Flywheel, Google Cloud managed services are a license to go fast
Editor’s note: Flywheel, a WP Engine company that specializes in managed WordPress hosting, needed more robust infrastructure for the platform it uses to run sites for over 35,000 agencies and creative brands. Moving to Google Kubernetes Engine gave them the reliability and resource utilization they needed; rearchitecting their application as a multi-tier, cloud-native application running […]