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AWS – Announcing AWS ParallelCluster 3.6 with GPU instance health checks and RHEL8 support
AWS ParallelCluster 3.6 is now generally available. Key new features include support for automatic health checks for GPU instances and support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL8). Other important features in this release include: Ability to customize Slurm settings not managed by ParallelCluster A programmatic interface to manage ParallelCluster using AWS CloudFormation Support for up […]
AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports streaming transcription in 3 more AWS regions
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Transcribe now supports streaming transcription in 3 more AWS regions -Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Africa (Cape Town). Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS partners bring choice of temporary elevated access capabilities to IAM Identity Center
Customers of AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) can use CyberArk Secure Cloud Access, Ermetic, and Okta Access Requests for temporary elevated access, also known as just-in-time access. As part of an ongoing collaboration with partners, AWS Identity validated that these solutions integrate with Identity Center and address common customer requirements, such […]
GCP – How Auditoria.AI is building AI-powered smart assistants for finance teams
Be it marketing, sales, or even security, most departments in large organizations today have a range of SaaS tools at their disposal to help make their work more efficient. But people in corporate finance and accounting have been underserved in that respect. Their days are still spent on routine, mundane tasks that keep them away […]
GCP – Partnering with Health-ISAC to strengthen the European healthcare system
Last July, Google Cloud launched our ambassador partnership with the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) and committed to working with industry leaders to better protect our healthcare ecosystem. Securing healthcare technology and data is a global challenge, and to meet it security professionals need to have better channels for sharing information and effective […]
GCP – Unlocking banking transformation with Finxact and Google Cloud
As the banking industry rapidly evolves, many incumbent financial service institutions find themselves in a bind. They must develop and launch new products and services to keep up with customer demands (and nimble new fintechs), but the core systems they use — many developed decades ago — are unable to do so with the speed […]
GCP – Firestore adds three new trigger destinations through an integration with Eventarc
Firestore triggers, commonly referred to in industry as change data capture, is a popular feature that lets you trigger custom compute logic in response to Firestore document changes. This feature is commonly utilized to replicate Firestore document changes to third-party services, notify them of changes to Firestore documents, and archive deleted Firestore documents in a […]
GCP – Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction: Creating a secure virtual classroom
A couple of years ago, Rayshun Holt, who works with Beacon of Hope in Cincinnati, Ohio, taught people newly released from correctional facilities the basics of using and navigating a computer so they could find jobs. (Beacon of Hope is an organization that helps people with criminal records find meaningful work, which has historically been […]
GCP – Generally Available: C3 VMs with Intel 4th Gen Xeon and industry-leading price-performance
Today, we are excited to announce general availability of the C3 machine series, bringing the enterprise-grade performance and reliability of the 4th Generation Intel Xeon scalable processor (code named Sapphire Rapids) to Google Compute Engine (GCE) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) customers — all with industry-leading price-performance. The C3 machine series is a general-purpose VM […]
GCP – Now open, new Doha cloud region set to support Qatar’s National Vision 2030
Today, at the official launch event of the new cloud region in Doha, we shared how Google Cloud investments will meet growing demand for cloud services in Qatar and the Middle East, and support Qatar’s National Vision 2030. The new Doha cloud region will help businesses and the public sector transform the country into a […]