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Azure – General availability: Serilog Sink for Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer now supports ingestion of data from .NET Applications via the Serilog Sink. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Encryption scopes on hierarchical namespace enabled storage accounts
You can now use separate encryption keys for each customer in a single hierarchical namespace enabled storage account. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Maps is now HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliant
Azure Maps ensures HIPAA compliance is achieved for protected health information (PHI), like when calculating travel time and distance from a patient’s location to the nearest healthcare facility. Read More for the details.

GCP – Using GKE workload rightsizing to find — and fix — resource utilization
Kubernetes has become the leading platform for efficiently managing and scaling containerized applications, particularly as more businesses transition to the cloud. While migrating to Kubernetes, organizations often face common challenges such as incorrect workload sizing. This can result in decreased reliability and performance of workloads, and idle clusters that waste resources and drive up costs. […]

GCP – Mr. Cooper is improving the home-buyer experience with AI and ML
As one of the largest home loan servicers in the country, Mr. Cooper has been helping people with homeownership since 1994. Believing that the process could be streamlined, we saw an opportunity to revolutionize the way people bought their dream homes, starting with transforming paper-based processes. And we believed that digitizing and automating as much […]

GCP – NEAR: Growing Web3 adoption through usability
Editor’s note: Today we hear from NEAR, an open-source collective behind the NEAR blockchain protocol, ecosystem, and foundation, and which is building its infrastructure services on Google Cloud. Web3 is a paradigm shift where identity, data, and assets are controlled and owned by users and the web’s services are decentralized. To enable this vision, there’s […]

GCP – Pub/Sub schema evolution is now GA
Pub/Sub schemas are designed to allow safe, structured communication between publishers and subscribers. In particular, the use of schemas provides that guarantee that any message published adheres to a schema and encoding, which the subscriber can rely on when reading the data. Schemas tend to evolve over time. For example, a retailer is capturing web […]

GCP – Solving for what’s next in Data and AI at this year’s Gartner Data & Analytics Summit
The largest gathering of data and analytics leaders in North America is happening March 20 – 22nd in Orlando, Florida. Over 4,000 attendees will join in person to learn and network with peers at the 2023 Gartner® Data & Analytics Summit. This year’s conference is expected to be bigger than ever, as is Google Cloud’s […]

Azure – Retirement: Azure Database Migration Service (classic) – SQL Server scenarios deprecation
Azure Database Migration Service (classic) – SQL Server scenarios will not be supported after March 31, 2026. Read More for the details.
Azure – Retirement notice: The Azure Storage PHP client libraries will be retired on 17 March 2024
Azure Storage PHP client libraries will be retired on 17 March 2024 Read More for the details.