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GCP – Enabling SAP enterprises and mission critical workloads on Google Cloud
For the vast majority of businesses, the future they see today is very different than the one they saw before the global pandemic: different priorities, different resources, and different approaches to risks and rewards.Thinking about the future can be especially challenging for our enterprise customers running SAP applications. Many kicked off 2020 with their plans […]
Azure – Azure Blob versioning public preview region expansion
We have expanded the preview regions to include East US 2, Central US, West Europe, and North Europe. You can start previewing this feature on any existing or new General-purpose (GPv2) storage accounts in those regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing 4 new and updated courses for APN Partners
Today we’re excited to announce two new courses and two refreshed courses created specifically for our Amazon Partner Network (APN) Partner community. First, AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Amazon Connect (Business) is a new digital course designed to help partners understand how to discuss the business advantages of creating a cloud-based contact center with Amazon […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager now supports adding offsets to maintenance window schedules
AWS Systems Manager now supports scheduling of maintenance tasks, such as applying patches, offset from a specific day in a specific week of the month. This enables IT operators to specify the number of days to wait before executing a maintenance window. Read More for the details.
GCP – Global HTTP(S) Load Balancing and CDN now support serverless compute
Many of you choose to develop serverless applications on Google Cloud so that you don’t have to worry about provisioning and managing the underlying infrastructure. In addition, serverless applications scale on-demand so you only pay for what you use. But historically, serverless products like App Engine used a different HTTP load balancing system than VM-based […]
Azure – Azure Stream Analytics—Debug queries using job diagram in Visual Studio Code is now available
A new feature in Visual Studio Code that enables you to debug Azure Stream Analytics queries using job diagram is now available. Read More for the details.
Azure – Data Factory connector support for Delta Lake and Excel is now available
New connectivity added to Azure Data Factory enables managing your Data Lakes using Delta and reading data directly from Excel files. Read More for the details.
GCP – Powering past limits with financial services in the cloud
Editor’s note: We asked financial institution KeyBank to share their story of moving their data warehouse from Teradata to Google Cloud. Here are details on why they moved to cloud, how they did their research, and what benefits cloud can bring. At KeyBank, we serve our 3.5 million customers online and in-person, and managing and […]
GCP – What’s shaking? Earthquake detection with submarine cables
Is it possible to detect earthquakes with submarine cables? We think it might be. A recent experiment using one of our subsea fiber optic cables showed that it could be useful for earthquake and tsunami warning systems around the globe. There’s a long tradition of using optical fiber for sensing applications. But whereas most of […]
GCP – GKE best practices: Exposing GKE applications through Ingress and Services
One critical part of designing enterprise applications running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is considering how your application will be consumed by its clients. This could be as simple as exposing your application outside the cluster, to be consumed by other internal clients, or might involve routing traffic to your application from public clients across […]