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GCP – TPG Telecom reduces API delivery time by 50% with Apigee
TPG Telecom is a rising star in Australian telecommunications with a strategy based on extensive mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and organic growth. Our brands, including Vodafone, TPG, iiNet and AAPT, service five million mobile customers and 2.2 million fixed broadband customers through extensive mobile and fiber networks. APIs are integral to our business on three […]

GCP – How to set up Google Cloud VMware Engine regional disaster recovery with VMware Site Recovery Manager
As a VMware admin, you understand the importance of business continuity and minimizing downtime. Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) customers have several options of tools to choose from (such as GCVE Protected, Zerto, Veeam replication, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and other third-party tools) based on their RTO and RPO needs. Of these, VMware SRM […]

GCP – Introducing Security Command Center Enterprise: The first multicloud risk management solution fusing AI-powered SecOps with cloud security
The stakes have never been higher for managing cloud risks. With organizations of every size and in every industry pursuing cloud-first strategies, the cloud is now home to their most critical applications and data. Adversaries have picked up on this ongoing shift, too: APT groups known for regularly targeting corporate and government organizations are increasingly […]

GCP – Healthcare’s AI transformation is already underway
AI is making a powerful impact all around us, but few sectors stand to benefit as profoundly as healthcare. Doctors and nurses are already starting to use AI as a capable assistant — getting help with medical notes, for example, or using AI in medical imaging to help with disease detection. This is just the […]

GCP – A window into protein folding: Lowering the barriers for AlphaFold Inferencing
The open-source tool Vertex AI AlphaFold Inference Pipeline has enabled biotech companies in streamlining protein-folding activities, accelerating their go to market timeline. It addresses key challenges in protein structure prediction by unleashing the power of parallel processing, optimizing compute resources, and scaling to meet high-throughput demands. Furthermore, it ensures reproducibility, lineage analysis, flexibility, adaptability, and […]

GCP – Chess.com boosts performance, cuts response times by 71% with Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus
Editor’s Note: Launched in 2007, Chess.com is a premium platform for online chess and one of the largest of its kind. A Cloud SQL for MySQL shop, it transitioned to Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition, improving the user experience, cutting costs, and significantly reducing response times, decreasing p99 latency response from 14ms to 4ms. Read […]

GCP – Join our first Security Talks of 2024: Trends, gen AI security, and augmenting defenses
As cyber threats and risks continue to evolve, robust security is more than just an IT issue — it is imperative for business success and continuity. To help you better understand the current cybersecurity landscape, including guidance on regulatory changes and the latest threat intelligence, we bring you the first 2024 installment of Google Cloud […]

GCP – Driving Looker customer innovations in the generative AI era
Data is a competitive advantage and customers in all industries are looking for complete, simplified business intelligence (BI) solutions to meet their specific needs. Every company, team, and individual wants to work with data to solve problems in their own way, with intuitive tools designed for today’s AI-driven landscape. Our vision is to make Looker […]

GCP – How Livesport activates data and saves engineering resources with BigQuery and Dataddo
Today, organizations can build a robust, end-to-end data infrastructure with a fraction of the in-house engineering resources. Livesport — a provider of real-time data, results, and statistics for virtually all sporting events around the globe — recognized this early on when building their data team. Livesport was already using BigQuery as a data warehouse for […]
GCP – Memorystore for Redis vector search and LangChain integrations for gen AI
In the increasingly competitive generative AI space, developers are looking for scalable and cost-effective means of differentiation and ways to improve user experience. Last week, we announced several enhancements to Memorystore for Redis, evolving it into a core building block for developers who are creating low-latency generative AI applications. First, we launched native Memorystore support […]