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GCP – Announcing Google Cloud 2022 Summits [frequently updated]
Register for our 2022 Google Cloud Summit series, and be among the first to learn about new solutions across data, machine learning, collaboration, security, sustainability, and more. You’ll hear from experts, explore customer perspectives, engage with interactive demos, and gain valuable insights to help you accelerate your business transformation. Bookmark the Google Cloud Summit series website […]
GCP – Scaling to new heights with Cloud Memorystore and Envoy
Modern applications need to process large-scale data at millisecond latency to provide experiences like instant gaming leaderboards, fast analysis of streaming data from millions of IoT sensors, or real-time threat detection of malicious websites. In-memory datastores are a critical component to deliver the scale, performance, and availability required by these modern applications. Memorystore makes it […]
GCP – Standardize traffic management: Service Directory and Traffic Director
Modern services are built on a mix of heterogeneous infrastructure platforms, and this mix is constantly changing as services migrate to the cloud to simplify operations. When you migrate services to the cloud, or move from legacy technologies to newer ones, it can involve a cumbersome reconfiguration of key components like load balancing and traffic […]
GCP – Retail Digital Pulse: A digital maturity assessment across Asia Pacific retail
Like retailers everywhere, those in the Asian market have been severely impacted by COVID-19. Lockdowns and restrictions during the pandemic have resulted in store closures and lost sales, and even as most economies have started to rebound, recovery is expected to be slow for retailers—especially those who are at an early stage of digital transformation. […]
Azure – Generally available: New learning content on the Azure IoT Central homepage
The Azure IoT Central homepage has been refreshed with new learning content to help you start your IoT solution development. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Hotpatch for Windows Server virtual machines
Hotpatch (reboot-less update) is now in general availability for Windows Server virtual machines as part of Azure Automanage for Windows Server. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Kubernetes v1.23 support in AKS
Take advantage of new features in Kubernetes v1.23. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces support for unloading data to JSON files
Amazon Redshift adds support for unloading SQL query results to Amazon S3 in JSON format, a lightweight and widely used data format that supports schema definition. With the UNLOAD command in Amazon Redshift, you can now use JSON in addition to already supported delimited text, CSV, and Apache Parquet formats. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Security Hub launches 13 controls and two partners for security posture monitoring
AWS Security Hub has released 13 new controls for its Foundational Security Best Practice standard (FSBP) to enhance customers’ Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). These controls conduct fully-automatic checks against security best practices for Amazon CloudFront, Amazon EC2, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), and AWS Virtual Private Network (VPN). […]
GCP – Introducing a Google Cloud architecture diagramming tool
You have a cloud use case… How do you go from idea to implementation? The first step in your implementation journey is the architecture diagram. Having an architecture diagram is critical because it enables you to share the vision with the team, collaborate with them, iterate on the design, and create the final version that […]