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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 to […]

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 […]

GCP – BigQuery now offers industry-leading uptime SLA of 99.99%
More than ever, businesses are making real-time, data-driven decisions based on information stored in their data warehouses. Today’s data warehouse requires continuous uptime as analytics demands grow and organizations require rapid access to mission-critical insights. Business disruptions from unplanned downtime can severely impact company sales, reputation, and customer relations. Our customers expect their data warehouses […]

GCP – Understanding IP address management in GKE
When it comes to giving out IP addresses, Kubernetes has a supply and demand problem. On the supply side, organizations are running low on IP addresses, because of large on-premises networks and multi-cloud deployments that use RFC1918 addresses (address allocation for private internets). On the demand side, Kubernetes resources such as pods, nodes and services […]

GCP – How Parcel Shuttle makes last-mile delivery more eco-friendly and drivers happier
Editor’s note: Today’s post comes from Simon Seeger, founder of Parcel Shuttle, a GLS Group backed Berlin parcel delivery solution that’s rethinking the sector with a “smart microgrid” system which enables it to reduce the carbon footprint of delivery runs while offering an opportunity to provide a flexible income for drivers. When we launched Parcel […]

AWS – Amazon ElastiCache announces support for resource-based permission policies
Amazon ElastiCache now allows you to assign permissions to specific resources in IAM policies. You can now assign AWS account root user or an IAM user permissions to specific ElastiCache resource or resources. Prior to this release, Amazon ElastiCache only supported identity-based policies. Identity-based policies control access to all ElastiCache resources and can’t distinguish between […]

AWS – AWS IoT Device Defender adds audit finding suppression capability
On Aug 12th, 2020, AWS IoT Device Defender launched Audit Finding Suppression. The new capability allows you to choose which audit findings you want to see and turn off non-compliant findings for specific resources – this can be either because you are working towards fixing related issues or because the resources are known to be […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito User Pools now supports customization of token expiration
Amazon Cognito User Pools now enables customers to choose how long their access and refresh tokens should be valid. Access tokens can be configured to expire in as little as five minutes or as long as 24 hours. Refresh tokens can be configured to expire in as little as one hour or as long as […]