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GCP – How Verve Group transforms customer experiences with Google Cloud Vertex AI
Verve Group is an ecosystem of demand and supply technologies fusing data, media, and technology to deliver results and growth to both advertisers and publishers – no matter the screen or location, no matter who, what, or where a customer is. Classifying massive amounts of this unstructured data at scale is the first step in […]

GCP – Mambu: Building the next generation of core banking with Google Cloud
When our founders began Mambu in 2011, their goal was to bring the latest digital technologies to the banking and finance world. Banking, in particular, is an industry built on decades of deep legacy technology. So initially, Mambu was embraced by microfinance — 100 organizations in 26 countries in just the first two years. Since […]

GCP – ListenField enables farmers to harvest the benefits of AI and machine learning
When I was growing up in Thailand, I witnessed the challenges facing farmers including rising food demand, shortage of labor, and uneven crop yields caused by climate change. As a result, many smallholder farmers found themselves trapped in a vicious circle, unable to reduce food insecurity due to low yields, but lacking the resources to […]

GCP – Is your data protected? Backup and DR service integrates with logging and monitoring tools
Backup and DR data is a valuable business asset, and ensuring that it’s safe and accessible is essential. In particular, you want to be able to monitor your backups to ensure that the data is indeed protected and that you can quickly recover it in the event of a disaster, user error, or failed upgrade. […]

GCP – Tune Spark properties to optimize Dataproc Serverless jobs
Data scientists and engineers need large-scale compute resources but often need more know-how or the engineering team to create and manage the underlying infrastructure. Dataproc Serverless, the industry’s first autoscaling serverless product for Spark, simplifies their experience by not having to think about infrastructure for their work. Dataproc Serverless uses Spark properties to determine the […]

GCP – Effective alerting in Google Cloud
Engineering organizations need to be able to quickly and easily identify and resolve technical issues, but this need often takes a backseat compared to other priorities. With so many things to track, it can be challenging to know which ones need alerts. It is possible to set up too many alerts, create too much noise, […]

Azure – Build AI-assisted calling workflows with Azure AI Speech and Azure Communication Services
Add speech capabilities into Azure Communication Services call automation workflows with Azure AI Speech. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer supports rightsizing for G4dn and P3 instances
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 11 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types. Newly supported instance types include accelerated computing instance families (G4dn, P3). The newly launched recommendations help customers discover opportunities to optimize their Machine Learning (ML), High-performance computing (HPC), and graphically intensive workloads. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Personalize simplifies implementation by extending column limits
Amazon Personalize now makes it easier to implement machine learning powered personalization by reducing the need for experimentation with increased dataset column limits. Amazon Personalize uses datasets provided by customers to train custom personalization models on their behalf. Some customers experiment with multiple iterations of their datasets in order to optimize model performance while fitting within […]