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GCP – Resources from Google Cloud partners to support businesses during COVID-19
Our Google Cloud partners play a huge role in supporting our customers, and at no time has that been more true than now. From the beginning of the pandemic, the Google Cloud partner community has been at the forefront of building new solutions to address the short-term and long-term needs of our customers around the […]
GCP – A guide to setting up monitoring for object creation in Cloud Storage
Cloud Storage provides worldwide, highly durable object storage that scales to exabytes of data. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, and big data analytics. The objects are […]
GCP – Square Enix and Colopl Bring the Real World to Dragon Quest Walk
Editor’s note:Today’s post comes from Takamasa Shiba, Producer at Square Enix, one of Japan’s leading video game developers, publishers, and distributors and Ko Sato, who is in charge of development on the server-side at Colopl. The Dragon Quest franchise, which has sold over 81 million copies (as of 2019) worldwide across all platforms, launched the […]
GCP – Google Cloud’s AI Adoption Framework: Helping you build a transformative AI capability
We believe that enterprises that invest in building AI solutions are better positioned to be the industry leaders of tomorrow. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help organizations improve, scale, and automate the decision-making process across most business functions, while machine learning (ML) can create new opportunities and help you develop new revenue streams to grow your […]
GCP – Bare Metal Solution: Coming to a Google Cloud data center near you
Last November, we announced Bare Metal Solution, which lets businesses run specialized workloads such as Oracle databases, close to Google Cloud, while lowering overall costs and reducing risks associated with migration. Our next job was to make this solution global. Today, we’re announcing availability of Bare Metal Solution in five more regions: Ashburn, Virginia; Frankfurt; […]
GCP – Reimagining government social services in the COVID-19 era
It’s no secret that state governments in the U.S. have been asked to carry a heavy weight supporting their citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic. States have seen a rising volume of new unemployment requests, and other social services systems are being stressed like never before. At the same time, more state employees have transitioned to […]
AWS – Amazon Athena adds support for Partition Projection
Amazon Athena has added support for Partition Projection, a new functionality that you can use to speed up query processing of highly partitioned tables and automate partition management. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Sphere OS quality update 20.06 is now available
The Azure Sphere OS quality update 20.06 is now available in the retail feed. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing AWS PrivateLink Support for Amazon Transcribe Real-Time Streaming
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that you can use to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Starting today, AWS customers can use AWS PrivateLink to access the Amazon Transcribe real-time streaming API from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse […]
AWS – Announcing AWS PrivateLink Support for Amazon Transcribe Medical Real-Time Streaming
Amazon Transcribe Medical is a HIPAA eligible Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capabilities to their healthcare and life science applications. Starting today, AWS customers can use AWS PrivateLink to access the Amazon Transcribe Medical real-time streaming API from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without […]