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GCP – Google Cloud and Oracle accelerate enterprise modernization with new offerings, regions, and capabilities
Supporting customers where they want to be is a core value at Google Cloud, and a big part of the reason that we have partnered with Oracle — so that you can innovate faster with the best of Google and the best of Oracle. This week at Google Cloud Next, we announced significant expansions to […]

GCP – Supercharge SQL Server to PostgreSQL migrations with AI-powered code conversion in Database Migration Service
As organizations continue to prioritize cloud-first strategies to accelerate innovation and gain competitive advantage, legacy databases remain a bottleneck by hindering modernization and stifling growth with unfriendly licensing, complex agreements, and rigid infrastructure. That’s why this week at Google Cloud Next, we’re announcing that Database Migration Service (DMS) is extending its comprehensive database modernization offering […]

GCP – Colossus: the secret ingredient in Rapid Storage’s high performance
As an object storage service, Google Cloud Storage is popular for its simplicity and scale, a big part of which is due to the stateless REST protocols that you can use to read and write data. But with the rise of AI and as more customers look to run data-intensive workloads, two major obstacles to […]

GCP – Accelerate your analytics: New Bigtable SQL capabilities drive real-time insights
For decades, businesses have wrestled with unlocking the true potential of their data for real-time operations. Bigtable, Google Cloud’s pioneering NoSQL database, has been the engine behind massive-scale, low-latency applications that operate at a global scale. It was purpose-built for the challenges faced in real-time applications, and remains a key piece of Google infrastructure, including […]

GCP – H4D VMs: Next-generation HPC-optimized VMs
At Google Cloud Next, we introduced H4D VMs, our latest machine type for high performance computing (HPC). Building upon existing HPC offerings, H4D VMs are designed to address the evolving needs of demanding workloads in industries such as manufacturing, weather forecasting, EDA, and healthcare and life sciences. H4D VMs are powered by the 5th Generation […]

GCP – New Google Workspace cost-saving offer available for U.S. federal government
Government agencies rely on IT providers to provide secure, compliant, and efficient technology to help complete their vital missions. At the same time, cost-savings and productivity are taking center stage. These priorities – lower cost with better security and productivity – may seem at odds, but with the right cloud provider, they don’t have to […]
GCP – Day 1 at Google Cloud Next 25 recap
Hello from Google Cloud Next 25 in Las Vegas! This year, it’s all about how AI can reimagine work and improve our lives — even bringing Hollywood classics like The Wizard of Oz to life on one of the biggest screens in the world. To start, CEO of Google Cloud Thomas Kurian celebrated the incredible […]

AWS – Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet is now available on Amazon Bedrock in Europe
Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet hybrid reasoning model, their most intelligent model to date, is now available through cross-region inference on Bedrock in Europe (Ireland), Europe (Paris), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (Stockholm). Claude 3.7 Sonnet represents a significant advancement in AI capabilities, offering both quick responses and extended, step-by-step thinking made visible to the user. This […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports recovery mode for applications
We are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports recovery mode, enabling users to regain access to their JupyterLab and Code Editor applications when configuration issues prevent normal startup. Starting today, when users encounter application startup failures due to issues such as corrupted Conda configuration or insufficient storage space, they can launch their […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M6id and R6id database instances
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports R6id and M6id instances. These instances offer up to 7.6 TB of NVMe-based local storage, making them well-suited for database workloads that require access to large amounts of intermediate data beyond the instance’s memory capacity. Customers can configure their Oracle database to use the local […]