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Azure – Public Preview: Azure Open AI “Use your data” integration with Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
Now you can easily leverage your data stored in Azure Cosmos DB for Mongo DB vCore for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Azure OpenAI models using the "Use your data" feature in Azure OpenAI Studio. Read More for the details.
GCP – Additional signals for enforcing Context Aware Access for Android
A Zero Trust approach to security can help you safeguard your users, devices, and apps as well as protect your data against unauthorized access or exfiltration. As part of Google Cloud’s efforts to help organizations adopt Zero Trust, we designed our BeyondCorp Enterprise (BCE) solution to be an extensible platform enabling customers to use a […]
GCP – The power of AlloyDB AI in AlloyDB Omni
Intro Can you actually put generative AI to use at work? Or is it just good for half-baked demos that we play with for the sake of amusement? In banking, retail, and entertainment, just to name a few industries, AI can give you a different angle on your operational data or increase productivity by offloading […]
GCP – Formula E chooses generative AI to inform drivers and engage fans
In today’s fast-paced business landscape, data-driven decision-making has become paramount for organizations aiming to stay ahead of the competition. With the emergence of generative AI (gen AI) technology, it’s now possible to provide a business user with a conversational interface to data that enables new engagement styles. With this approach, enterprises can build on traditional […]
GCP – Bringing the world’s most innovative AI technology to UK customers and partners at Google Cloud Next London
This week we’re delighted to welcome customers and partners to Next London ‘23, where we’ll highlight innovations from across Google Cloud’s portfolio of products and services, as well as from our ecosystem of customers and partners. In addition, today we’re announcing new and expanded work with global and UK-based customers who are transforming their businesses […]
GCP – AlloyDB Omni, the downloadable edition of AlloyDB, is now generally available
With the launch of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL in Google Cloud, customers are increasingly interested in eliminating their dependency on high-cost, legacy databases with unfriendly licensing and moving to cost effective, open, fully supported, high-performance databases. However, some customers have workloads that are restricted to on-premises data centers due to regulatory or data sovereignty requirements, or […]
GCP – Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB, and with strong consistency and single-digit ms latency
Today, we announced significant price-performance improvements for Cloud Spanner, now providing up to 50% increase in throughput and 2.5 times the storage per node than before, with no change in price. Spanner’s high throughput, virtually unlimited scale, single-digit millisecond latency, five 9s availability SLA, and strong external-consistency semantics are now available at half the cost […]
Azure – Announcing Public Preview of Azure API Management Pricing Tiers: Basic v2 and Standard v2
We’re thrilled to announce the public preview launch of our latest Azure API Management pricing tiers: Basic v2 and Standard v2. These new tiers address highly sought-after customer requests, bring quality-of-service enhancements, and offer a flexible starting point for API Management, allowing organizations of any size to embark on their API journey. Read More for the […]
AWS – Announcing pgactive: Active-active Replication Extension for PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS
Today, AWS announces the general availability of pgactive: Active-active Replication Extension for PostgreSQL, available for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL. pgactive lets you use asynchronous active-active replication for streaming data between database instances to provide additional resiliency and flexibility in moving data between database instances, including writers located in different AWS Regions, for the […]
AWS – Amazon Linux announces support for Ansible and Corretto 21 with AL2023.2
Today we are announcing the availability of Ansible and Corretto 21 on Amazon Linux 2023 as a part of second quarterly update. Read More for the details.