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GCP – Filestore Enterprise: File-sharing done right for SAP customers
Google Cloud’s ability to raise the bar on SAP application productivity and performance is an important source of value for our enterprise customers who run SAP environments. And now, we’ve got another success story to share from Google Cloud’s focus on SAP: giving customers the ability to leverage Google Cloud Filestore Enterprise as a file-sharing […]
GCP – Lift and shift: Lessons for Video Media Applications
When moving software applications from on-premise hardware to the cloud, it often “just works,” but it’s never guaranteed. This is especially the case for applications that are hardware intensive. This blog post examines what happened when a media company took software for real-time video broadcasts into the cloud. We’ll share how we, Google Cloud, collaborated […]
GCP – Ocwen becomes a cloud-first company by adopting Chrome OS
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Parveen Chander Aery, CIO, and Rishi Gupta, Head of Global IT Infrastructure, of Ocwen, a provider of residential and commercial mortgage loan services. The U.S.-based company adopted Chrome OS devices to help global contact center teams work productively together. We’re used to deployments of new technology taking a lot of […]
AWS – Incident Manager from AWS Systems Manager now supports AWS PrivateLink
Incident Manager, from AWS Systems Manager, now supports AWS PrivateLink, providing direct access to incident data via managed VPC endpoints within your virtual private network. AWS Systems Manager is the operations hub for your AWS applications and resources, providing a secure end-to-end management solution for hybrid cloud environments. To learn more about Incident Manager, visit our […]
GCP – How EdTechs create a data culture and roll out a data platform
With a data strategy and data warehouse in place, EdTechs are building a data culture that helps everyone – from educators and administrators, to employees in marketing and accounting – make more informed decisions with their data. So how do you build a data culture in your organization? It starts by asking these questions: Are […]
AWS – IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows you to create IPv6-only subnets in your dual-stack VPCs and launch EC2 instances built on Nitro System in these subnets in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon Forecast
Starting today, AWS customers can use AWS PrivateLink to access Amazon Forecast services from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the Internet to connect to Amazon Forecast. With this launch, customers can also gain additional access control of the VPC endpoints through […]
Azure – Public preview: Azure Bastion now supports file transfer via the native client
Azure Bastion offers support for file transfer between your target VM and local computer using Bastion and a native RDP or SSH client. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 60 – January 2022
Review the improvements and fixes provided in Update Rollup 60. Read More for the details.
GCP – Troubleshooting application performance on Cloud Spanner with OpenCensus
This tutorial shows how to configure client-side metrics recording in your Cloud Spanner workloads using OpenCensus. While Cloud Spanner surfaces a number of helpful server-side metrics, applications can realize the added benefits of collecting metrics emitted by the Cloud Spanner client library. For example, only client-side metrics include session and transaction related information. These OpenCensus […]