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GCP – Ask questions to BigQuery and get instant answers through Data QnA
Today, we’re announcing Data QnA, a natural language interface for analytics on BigQuery data, now in private alpha. Data QnA helps enable your business users to get answers to their analytical queries through natural language questions, without burdening business intelligence (BI) teams. This means that a business user like a sales manager can simply ask […]
GCP – Introducing Active Assist: Reduce complexity, maximize your cloud ROI
There’s huge value to running in the cloud. That’s why we continue to see cloud adoption grow year over year. But running more applications in the cloud means more systems to manage—and more complexity. In fact, nearly half of C-level executives cited complexity as the factor that will have the most negative impact on cloud […]
GCP – How Synchrony brought 6,000 employees home with Chromebooks and Citrix
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Gregory Simpson, Chief Technology Officer for Synchrony, a financial services and consumer banking company. Like many businesses around the world, Synchrony recently had to move to a remote-work model. To help contact center teams to work from home, Synchrony is using Chrome Enterprise and Chromebooks. Greg share’s his vision […]
GCP – How Argos is using Google Maps Platform to give customers what they want, wherever they are
Editor’s note:Today’s post comes from Rob Sargent, Senior Digital Product Lead at Argos, one of the UK’s largest retailers, and a company on a mission to offer outstanding convenience, choice, and value, both online and in its stores. At Argos, we sell more than 89,000 products from washing machines to games consoles to clothing, so […]
Azure – Azure Load Balancer support for IP-based backend pool management is in preview
Azure Load Balancer now supports adding and removing resources from a backend pool via an IPv4 or IPv6 addresses and virtual network ID. This will enable you to easily manage the containers, virtual machines, and virtual machine scale sets associated with their load balancer. It will also allow IP addresses to be reserved as part […]
AWS – AWS Marketplace now offers integrated third-party software solutions for AWS Control Tower
Starting today, AWS Marketplace offers integrated third-party software solutions for AWS Control Tower. Built by independent software vendors, these solutions help solve infrastructure and operational use cases such as security for a multi-account environment, with tools including centralized networking, operational intelligence, and Security and Information Event Management (SIEM). Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Marketplace AMIs now supported with Spot Instances in the EC2 Launch Instance Wizard
Starting today, AWS customers can enable Spot Instances for AWS Marketplace Amazon Machine Image (AMI) products while launching new instances through the EC2 console Launch Instance Wizard (LIW). With this launch, you can reduce costs on the EC2 instances you need to run your third-party software on AWS. Spot Instances enable you to request unused […]
AWS – Amazon FSx for Lustre Now Supports AWS Graviton2-based Instances
Amazon FSx for Lustre now enables you to use the world’s most popular high-performance file system from Amazon EC2 instances powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors. This capability makes it easier and even more cost-effective to run workloads where speed matters, such as machine learning, gaming, electronic design automation, high-performance computing, video processing, and financial […]
AWS – AWS Storage Gateway increases local cache storage by 4x for File Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway now supports a local cache of up to 64 TB for File Gateway, improving performance for your on-premises applications by providing you with low-latency access to larger working data sets. Now, you can easily scale your gateway’s local cache to manage more of your application data closer to your on-premises applications and […]
AWS – AWS Storage Gateway simplifies cache management for File Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway simplifies cache management for File Gateway by enabling you to create multiple file shares for a single Amazon S3 bucket and synchronize the gateway’s local cache with an Amazon S3 bucket based on frequency of directory access. These enhancements simplify the management of your gateway by providing flexibility when configuring new file […]