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GCP – Alicia Abella has a PhD and 29 patents to her name — now she’s helping telcos transform and creating opportunities for others to join tech
Editor’s note: Alicia Abella is the Managing Director for Telecommunications Industry Solutions at Google Cloud. The work involves bringing complex, advanced technology to businesses across diverse markets and cultures — from startups in Brazil to North America’s largest telecommunications companies. The daughter of immigrants from Cuba, she has a PhD, 29 patents, and extensive experience […]
GCP – Accelerate time to value with Google’s Data Cloud for your industry
Many data analytics practitioners today are interested in ways they can accelerate new scenarios and use cases to enable business outcomes and competitive advantage. As many enterprises look at rationalizing their data investments and modernizing their data analytics platform strategies, the prospect of migrating to a new cloud-first data platform like Google’s Data Cloud can […]
Azure – Azure Automation is retiring Agent-based User Hybrid Runbook Worker (Windows & Linux) on 31 August 2024
Azure Automation is retiring Agent-based User Hybrid Runbook Worker on 31 August 2024 Read More for the details.
Azure – Batch Service in select regions will be retired on 31 March 2026
Migrate your Batch workloads before 31 March 2026 to other regions where Azure Batch will continue to be available. Read More for the details.
Azure – AKS will stop support for Windows Server 2019 on March 1 2026
Transition your Kubernetes workloads on Windows Server 2019 to Windows Server 2022 by March 1 2026. Read More for the details.
Azure – Docker container runtime retirement for Windows node pools effective May 1, 2023
Migrate to containers before May 1, 2023 Read More for the details.
Azure – Batch custom image pools using VHD or managed images will be retired on 31 March 2026
Transition custom image pools use images from Azure Compute Gallery Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect Tasks now supports custom task templates in flows
Amazon Connect now allows you to use custom task templates using the “Create task” block in Connect Flows, making it easier for agents to capture the right information to create and complete tasks. Amazon Connect Tasks empowers you to prioritize, assign, and track all contact center agent tasks to completion, improving agent productivity and ensuring […]
AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS adds managed and self-managed node groups support for managed endpoints
We are excited to announce the support for EKS clusters with both managed and self-managed node groups when using interactive Spark workloads via managed managed endpoints. Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS. Amazon EMR on EKS customers setup and use a managed endpoint (available […]
AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS adds support for JEG pod placement for managed endpoints
We are excited to announce support for defining where a Jupyter Enterprise Gateway (JEG) pod can be deployed when running interactive Spark workloads using managed endpoints. Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS. Amazon EMR on EKS customers setup and use a managed […]