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Azure – Azure HDInsight –Autoscale for Interactive Query with HDInsight 4.0 is now generally available
Enable HDInsight Autoscale to drive higher utilization of your clusters. Read More for the details.

GCP – Google Cloud Migration Made Easy
At Google Cloud, we believe that effective integration of public cloud capabilities is fundamental to an enterprise’s digital transformation journey. A well-designed digital transformation strategy should do much more than keep you competitive… instead, it should position you to excel by untethering IT staff from low value, labor-intensive tasks, allowing them to focus on innovation […]

GCP – SAP on Google Cloud: 2 analyst studies reveal quantifiable business benefits
Cloud migration is top of mind for most companies with SAP applications. While the advantages of the cloud for SAP customers is generally understood, the move itself can be complicated and disruptive. So what actually are the business benefits and cost savings? How long will it take to recoup such an investment? Two recently published […]

GCP – PyTorch / XLA now generally available on Cloud TPUs
The PyTorch machine learning (ML) framework is popular in the ML community for its flexibility and ease-of-use, and we are excited to support it across Google Cloud. Today, we’re announcing that PyTorch / XLA support for Cloud TPUs is now generally available. This means PyTorch users can access large scale, low cost Cloud TPU hardware […]

GCP – Security-at-scale: 10 new security and management controls
With so many people working remotely, it’s imperative that the tools we use to stay productive are secure. Already this year we have worked to strengthen security for our customers and help make threat defense more effective. Today, we’re sharing new advancements that provide robust controls, enable automation, and simplify managing security-at-scale with both G […]

AWS – Amazon CloudFront launches in two new countries – Mexico and New Zealand
Amazon CloudFront announces its first edge locations in two new countries: Mexico and New Zealand. In Mexico, our two new edge locations in Querétaro will provide viewers as much as a 30% reduction in p90 latency measures. These new edge locations are priced within CloudFront’s North America geographic region. In New Zealand, our two new […]

Azure – Azure Data Explorer extends functionality to support geospatial joins
The new geo_polygon_to_s2cells function enables the user to join vast amount of geospatial timeseries data with polygons on S2 cells. Read More for the details.

GCP – Engaging in a European dialogue on customer controls and open cloud solutions
At last year’s Europe-focused Google Cloud Next event, we outlined our commitment to European customers, sharing ways Google Cloud is helping European organizations transform their businesses in our cloud and address their strict data security and privacy requirements. This included expanding our existing cloud regions on the continent, growing our ecosystem of local partners, and […]

GCP – Helping European businesses grow and digitally transform in the cloud
As we welcome thousands of customers, partners, business leaders and developers to Google Cloud Next OnAir EMEA, our five-week virtual event, I want to take a moment to reflect on how inspiring it’s been to see organizations around the world pivoting and adapting to unprecedented circumstances. It’s why we’ve reimagined our event and taken it […]
GCP – IDC confirms bright future for Google Cloud partners in EMEA
Customers come first for our team at Google Cloud EMEA, but we couldn’t deliver to our high standard without the help of our partners. They play a key role in the delivery of Google Cloud technologies and solutions to our businesses all over the region. With this in mind, I’m very proud to share the […]