Welcome to above the clouds

Azure – Microsoft Dev Box is now generally available
Microsoft Dev Box is generally available now. Dev Box is a virtualized solution that empowers developers to quickly spin up self-service workstations preconfigured for their tasks while maintaining centralized management to maximize security and compliance. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: ExpressRoute private peering support for BGP communities
Set BGP community tags on traffic sent from Azure to on-premises over ExpressRoute, enabling a greater variety of hybrid network designs. Read More for the details.

GCP – Operational goodies for your IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack Kubernetes clusters
Are you ready to start your IPv6 journey? Is your cloud provider ready to start it with you? Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) supports dual-stack Kubernetes clusters to help your journey to IPv6 while ensuring your applications are v6-ready. And to address the operational demands for IPv6 workloads, we’re adding several features to GKE networking to […]

GCP – Managed containers: An enterprise standard at Colgate-Palmolive
Kubernetes is an increasingly key part of the application deployment strategies at large organizations, and one of the most recommended options for the teams we work with. An idea brought to life at Google, organizations throughout the world use containers and Kubernetes on-premises, in Google Cloud, or in a multi-cloud scenario, and it has emerged […]

GCP – Save time, money and modernize your legacy database estate …. but first assess
As companies modernize their applications and infrastructure, many IT stakeholders are looking to open source technologies to help them do so. One area where open source is gaining traction is in relational database management systems (RDBMS). Open-source RDBMSs such as PostgreSQL are becoming increasingly popular alternatives to commercial RDBMSs such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL […]

GCP – Introducing Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus: New edition delivers up to 3x MySQL performance
Cloud SQL is Google Cloud’s enterprise-ready, fully managed database service for running MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server workloads. It’s used across industries from digital services to banking to retail, with more than 95% of Google Cloud’s top 100 customers using Cloud SQL today. As more demanding workloads move to the cloud, some of you have […]

GCP – Improving telecom customer experiences with AI/ML-powered insights
The race to increase global mobile broadband access has been on for years. As more people depend daily on fast, reliable internet, telecom companies are looking to continuously improve and expand their services. The challenge for many is: how to accomplish this on a massive scale quickly and cost effectively? The answer lies in advanced […]

Azure – General availability: Call automation capabilities for Azure Communication Services
A new set of APIs are in preview, to help developers build server-based, calling workflows. Read More for the details.

Azure – Datadog – An Azure Native ISV Service – the most desired new features now available
Explore new capabilities with Datadog – An Azure Native ISV Service, that include a scalable solution to monitor resources in multiple subscriptions, configuration for Cloud Security Posture Management and ability to mute the monitor for expected VM shutdowns. Read More for the details.
GCP – Introducing the latest in cloud-based maps styling
Starting today we will be rolling out a new Experimental release of cloud-based maps styling for the Maps JavaScript API to give you more control over the look and feel of your maps than ever before You now have more options to fine-tune your geospatial use cases by targeting more of the content that matters most. […]