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GCP – Next OnAir as it happens: All the announcements in one place
Across our keynote presentations and breakout sessions over the nine weeks of Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir, we’ll be sharing a wealth of news and updates on all things cloud. And we want to make sure you don’t miss a thing. Check back in with this blog each week to see a running list of […]
Azure – Azure Site Recovery now supports replication with private links
Ensure a secure channel for replication of your Azure and on-premises workloads with the help of private links capability of Azure and Site Recovery. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure Private Link for Azure SignalR Service
Use private endpoint to connect to Azure SignalR Service. Read More for the details.
AWS – New digital course: Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Primer
We’re excited to announce Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Primer. This digital, hour-long intermediate course teaches you how to support your Windows-based applications and workloads with Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. Featuring self-paced modules and video demonstrations, the course is ideal for storage engineers, file server administrators, and cloud architects. Read More for […]
GCP – Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir—Accelerating digital transformation in the cloud
Today, I am excited to welcome you to Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir, our first digital event series that gives our community an opportunity to learn from top industry leaders and get inspired by our latest cloud innovations. As we’ve all experienced, the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed how we live and work—for citizens, communities […]
GCP – Introducing Google Cloud Confidential Computing with Confidential VMs
At Google, we believe the future of cloud computing will increasingly shift to private, encrypted services that give users confidence that they are always in control over the confidentiality of their data. Google Cloud encrypts data at-rest and in-transit, but customer data must be decrypted for processing. Confidential Computing is a breakthrough technology which encrypts […]
GCP – Bringing multi-cloud analytics to your data with BigQuery Omni
Today, we are introducing BigQuery Omni, a flexible, multi-cloud analytics solution that lets you cost-effectively access and securely analyze data across Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Azure (coming soon), without leaving the familiar BigQuery user interface (UI). Using standard SQL and the same BigQuery APIs our customers love, you will be able to […]
GCP – Compliance Without Compromise: Introducing Assured Workloads for Government
As U.S. government agencies and the enterprises that serve them adopt cloud technologies, security and compliance requirements around data locality and personnel access are key considerations. To meet these requirements, many cloud providers have built separate environments, with standalone data centers, to run government workloads. But these “government clouds” don’t come with the technology and […]
GCP – Announcing C2C, an independent community whose mission is to serve, educate and connect Google Cloud customers
Over the last several months, I’ve seen first-hand how the power of knowledge-sharing and community has galvanized our customers in the face of an unprecedented global pandemic. Our customers are asking important questions, forging partnerships, and creating real solutions to today’s most challenging problems by harnessing the power of the cloud, and each other. It’s […]
GCP – Helping ISVs Leverage the Power of Google Cloud
Businesses run key applications in the cloud to take advantage of lower cost and increased global availability, security, and elasticity. And increasingly, enterprises are looking for more—they want greater deployment flexibility, they want to unlock the value of data through analytics and AI/ML, and they want to take advantage of the technology ecosystems that the […]