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Azure – Azure Backup for SAP HANA databases running on RHEL is now generally available
On August 1, 2020, Azure Backups support for HANA databases running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) became generally available. This offering is available across all Azure regions except for Germany Northeast, Germany Central, France South, and US Gov IOWA. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure IoT Central UI new and updated features—July 2020
July updates include jobs improvements, CLI updates, documentation enhancements, new REST APIs, and a new mobile gateway sample. Read More for the details.

GCP – New GKE Dataplane V2 increases security and visibility for containers
One of Kubernetes’ true superpowers is its developer-first networking model. It provides easy-to-use features such as L3/L4 services and L7 ingress to bring traffic into your cluster as well as network policies for isolating multi-tenant workloads. As more and more enterprises adopt Kubernetes, the gamut of use cases is widening with new requirements around multi-cloud, […]

GCP – Bringing databases to the center of a modern business
For many decades, databases have been the engines fueling the most business-critical enterprise workloads across industries such as retail, banking, manufacturing, and healthcare. These are the systems that, for example, allow money to move around the world and supplies to get to hospitals and patients when they need it most. These workloads require the highest […]

GCP – Get more from every core: Announcing CPU overcommit for Compute Engine
As part of our commitment to provide the most enterprise-friendly, intelligent, and cost effective options for running workloads in the cloud, we are excited to announce CPU overcommit for sole-tenant nodes is now generally available. With CPU overcommit for sole-tenant nodes, you can over-provision your dedicated host virtual CPU resources by up to 2X. CPU […]

GCP – The best of Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir: Data Management Week for technical practitioners
It’s Week 6 of Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir, and this week we’re covering all things databases, from running your favorite open source database with Cloud SQL to building new enterprise solutions using Cloud Spanner. We have a lot of great content to share with you this week, so let’s dig in. Whatever database questions […]

GCP – Simplifying global game launches with Google Cloud Game Servers, now GA
As more and more people across the world turn to multiplayer games, developers must scale their game to meet increased player demand and provide a great gameplay experience, while managing complex underlying global infrastructure. To solve this problem, many game companies build and manage their own costly proprietary solutions, or turn to pre-packaged solutions that […]

AWS – AWS announces Contact Center Intelligence solutions
AWS Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) solutions enable customers using contact center solutions to leverage off-the-shelf functionality powered by machine learning like text-to-speech, translation, enterprise search, chatbots, business intelligence, and language comprehension. AWS CCI solutions allow customers to gain greater efficiencies and deliver increasingly tailored customer experiences within their existing contact center platform—with no machine learning […]

AWS – AWS DataSync simplifies automation with API filters
AWS DataSync now supports filtering for the ListTasks and ListLocations API calls, enabling you to easily retrieve configuration of data transfer tasks, using filters such as the source or destination for the data transfer. With this new capability, you can automate the set up and monitoring of workloads that involve hundreds of DataSync tasks. Read […]
Azure – Azure Blob – Soft Delete for Containers public preview
Soft delete for containers expands upon Azure Blob Storage’s existing capabilities such as soft delete for blobs, account delete locking, and immutable blobs, making our data protection and restore capabilities even better. Read More for the details.