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Azure – AMD Confidential VM option for Azure Databricks
Users can now select AMD-based confidential VMs for their Azure Databricks cluster driver node and cluster worker nodes. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.2 support for AMD confidential VMs
User of AMD-based confidential VMs can now select the RHEL 9.2 technical preview as their guest OS. Read More for the details.
GCP – Developers, embrace application modernization with Migrate to Container’s new CLI
Do you have applications in your portfolio that have been running for five, ten, or twenty years? Congratulations, that means people use them and they add value! However, those existing applications are often built on older technologies and platforms, which can make them difficult to maintain and upgrade. Modernizing these applications into containers or serverless […]
GCP – Deploy Network Virtual Appliances (NVAs) without multiple VPCs. Technical Deep Dive
Challenges of migrating network virtual appliances The integration of stateful appliances, such as firewalls, in the network has historically been dependent on the network topology. In order to guarantee that traffic traverses the stateful appliances, these are deployed so that they are the only path that traffic can follow between two or more networks. To […]
GCP – Cloud Run now supports sidecar deployments — monitoring agents, proxies and more
Cloud Run is a fully-managed container runtime that automatically scales your code, in a container, from zero to as many instances as needed to handle all incoming requests. Previously, every instance in a Cloud Run service ran on only one container. Today, we are introducing Cloud Run sidecars, allowing you to start independent sidecar containers […]
GCP – Nasdaq’s Metrio team innovates with serverless on Cloud Run
Nasdaq is committed to helping our customers efficiently measure, monitor and report on their sustainability performance. In 2022, Nasdaq acquired Metrio, a platform that allows companies to report on their environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. This platform collects, measures and analyzes corporate sustainability data in real time and generates investor-grade reports designed to be […]
Azure – Announcing the public preview of custom Text Analytics for health
Custom Text Analytics for health is the newest healthcare NLP offering from Cognitive Services for Language. It allows you to add a layer of customization on top of Text Analytics for health using state-of-the-art machine learning models to build your own healthcare entity extraction model with your specific domain data. The model’s authoring experience can […]
GCP – The new frontier: High performance computing for quantitative research and risk simulation
Editor’s note: This blog post is guest authored by David Easthope, Senior Analyst, Coalition Greenwich, and represents insights based on the Coalition Greenwich’s research and data. Disclosure: This Coalition Greenwich content is sponsored by Google Cloud. Quantitative managers are increasingly relying on access to high performance computing (HPC) resources to develop their investment strategies. While […]
GCP – Reducing food insecurity and transforming the grow-to-grocery cycle in Africa with cloud technology
Have you ever wondered how the banana you’re eating made it to your Mama Mboga or other food vendor? The food supply chain is complex, to say the least, but many organizations are working to simplify it using the latest technologies. Twiga Foods makes a significant contribution to the banana supply in Kenya. The company […]
AWS – AWS Backup now supports restoring resources with tags
Today, AWS Backup is announcing support for restoring resources with tags copied from protected resources. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. This launch allows you to seamlessly extend using tag-based policies for access, cost allocation, compliance, and automation workflows for your restored […]