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Azure – Generally available: Azure Monitor integration with Azure Container Apps
You can now choose different destinations for your Azure Container Apps logs Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Machine Learning – Generally availability updates for March 2023
New features now available in GA include the ability to visualize timeseries models, and create a Compute Instance on behalf of another user. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure SQL Database offline migrations in Azure SQL Migration extension
The Azure SQL Migration extension allows offline database migrations of on-premises and cloud SQL Server databases to Azure SQL Database, providing a comprehensive modernization experience in Azure Data Studio. Read More for the details.

GCP – Accelerating Ulta Beauty’s modernization with managed containerized microservices
Founding the digital store of the future With a perfectly symmetrical cat-eye toward tomorrow, Ulta Beauty has been laying the foundation for its upcoming Digital Store. This transformational, digital touchpoint delivers a redesigned, highly personalized, and compelling e-commerce experience. To do this right, Ulta Beauty requires a modern, containerized platform, an agile infrastructure to support […]

GCP – Mitigate mainframe migration risks with Dual Run
CIOs are again evaluating their mainframe investments, balancing rising operational costs and difficulty finding talent with the perceived costs and risks of moving critical applications to the cloud. Increased business agility, technical innovation, computing elasticity, customer insights, and a growing talent pool all encourage CIOs to migrate and modernize from “Big Iron” onto public cloud […]

GCP – Peacock: Tackling ML challenges by accelerating skills
At Peacock, we are acutely aware of global trends and changes in adopting machine learning (ML) techniques, particularly in the field of media and entertainment. We anticipate that, within several years, most software applications will have an element of ML and will require fine tuning of a model, putting increasing demand on ML training infrastructure. […]

GCP – Coop reduces food waste by forecasting with Google’s AI and Data Cloud
Although Coop has a rich history spanning nearly 160 years, the machine learning (ML) team supporting its modern operations is quite young. Its story began in 2018 with one simple mission: to leverage ML-powered forecasting to help inform business decisions, such as demand planning based on supply chain seasonality and expected customer demand. The end […]

GCP – Google Cloud and FS-ISAC team up to advance financial services security
Google Cloud is committed to strengthening the security and resiliency of financial services organizations and making the Internet a safer place for all organizations to conduct transactions and business. While building a secure and resilient ecosystem is a joint responsibility, we want to ensure that we’re working together to build a community of trust. To […]

GCP – Helping Arapahoe County operate more efficiently with Google Cloud
Arapahoe, Colorado’s first county, has been focused on cultivating growth opportunities for its residents for more than 150 years1. Home to roughly 655,000 people from diverse backgrounds, Arapahoe County is projected to be one of the largest counties in Colorado within ten years2. The County supports a variety of industries, including ranching, technology, and aviation […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon Linux 2023
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), our new Linux-based operating system for AWS that is designed to provide a secure, stable, high-performance environment to develop and run your cloud applications. AL2023 provides seamless integration with various AWS services and development tools and offers optimized performance for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) […]