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AWS – AWS IQ now provides short URLs for expert profiles
AWS IQ is a professional services marketplace that connects AWS customers with AWS Certified freelancers and consulting firms with deep AWS expertise. IQ experts can now easily share their public profiles via a custom, short URL. Public profiles showcase an expert’s AWS Certifications and professional experience. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing AWS Cloud Digital Interface (CDI) and input support in AWS Elemental MediaLive
Today we are excited to announce AWS Cloud Digital Interface (CDI), a network technology for reliably transporting uncompressed live video between applications. AWS CDI uses advanced, high-performance features available on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types that support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA). Using AWS CDI, you can send video reliably between applications with […]
AWS – AWS Snowcone is now available in the AWS Europe (Ireland) Region
The AWS Snowcone service is now available for order for customers in the EU (Ireland) Region. With this launch, Snowcone is now available for order in EU (Ireland), US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon) Regions. AWS Snowcone is the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing and data transfer devices. […]
Azure – Azure Files support for NFS v4.1 is now in preview
Azure Files now adds support for NFS v4.1 file system protocol for an easy migration of your Linux-centric workloads. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Budgets now offers Daily Granularity for Cost & Usage Budgets
AWS Budgets allows you to monitor your cloud costs and usage, as well as utilization and coverage for your purchased Savings Plans and Reserved Instances. You can receive notifications when costs and usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted thresholds, and/or when your utilization or coverage falls under your target thresholds. Read More […]
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Data Science Acceleration with Troodon Analytics Hub
Data Science Acceleration with Troodon Analytics Hub is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Vertical Trail, an AWS Data & Analytics Competency Partner. Data Science Acceleration with Troodon Analytics Hub includes everything you need to get an effective data science environment up and running. Customers that request this consulting offer […]
GCP – Making it easier to manage Windows Server VMs
Google Cloud provides a first-class experience for migrating and modernizing Windows workloads. Organizations choose Google Cloud for reliability, performance, and cost savings from the underlying infrastructure, as well as for features, tooling and guidance that helps them modernize. Companies like Geotab rely on Google Cloud to keep ahead of change and increased demand, and reduce […]
GCP – Export data from Cloud SQL without performance overhead
While there are a variety of reasons to export data out of your databases – such as to maintain backups, meet regulatory data retention policies, or feed downstream analytics – exports can put undue strain on your production systems, making them challenging to schedule and manage. To eliminate that resource strain, we’ve launched a new […]
GCP – Forrester names Google Cloud a Leader in Notebook-based Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning
Forrester Research has named Google Cloud a Leader in its latest report on Notebook-based Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning Solutions. Forrester’s analysis and recognition gives customers the confidence they need as they make important platform choices that will have lasting business impact. This recognition is based on Forrester’s evaluation of Google Cloud’s AI Platform that […]
GCP – GKE powers new software-defined NetApp Cloud Volumes Service
Enterprises are moving critical workloads to the cloud to gain flexibility and agility, and their storage platforms need to evolve—without sacrificing capabilities or quality. Specifically, enterprise workloads running in the cloud need a storage platform that can handle complex operational requirements for uptime, predictable performance, data management, scalability, protection, application portability and data mobility, just […]