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AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces up to 3x faster ML model training time
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now delivers up to 3x faster machine learning (ML) model training time, enabling rapid prototyping and faster time-to-value for business outcomes. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 G5g instances now available in Frankfurt region
Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G5g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and featuring NVIDIA T4G Tensor Core GPUs are now available in Europe (Frankfurt). G5g instances can be used for a wide range of graphics intensive and machine learning use cases. They provide the best price performance in Amazon EC2 […]
Azure – General Availability: AzAcSnap 7 — Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool updates
AzAcSnap Version 7 Release Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in Switzerland North and Korea South
Now available in Korea South and Switzerland North region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most demanding workloads. Read More for the details.
Azure – General Availability: Azure Active Directory authentication for exporting and importing Managed Disks
New integration with Azure Active Directory (AD) to export and import data to Azure Managed Disks improves security Read More for the details.
GCP – Run faster and more cost-effective Dataproc jobs
Dataproc is a fully managed service for hosting open-source distributed processing platforms such as Apache Hive, Apache Spark, Presto, Apache Flink, and Apache Hadoop on Google Cloud. Dataproc provides flexibility to provision and configure clusters of varying sizes on demand. In addition, Dataproc has powerful features to enable your organization to lower costs, increase performance […]
GCP – How Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud help secure the future of omnichannel retail
Editor’s note: To kick off the new year and in preparation for NRF The Big Show, we invited partners from across our retail ecosystem to share stories, best practices, and tips and tricks on how they are helping retailers transform during a time that continues to see tremendous change. Please enjoy this entry from our […]
GCP – Everything you need to know about architecting reliable infrastructure for Google Cloud workloads
Do you worry about the reliability of your workloads in the cloud? Does the thought of application downtime give you sleepless nights? At Google, we also think about reliability a lot — and take steps to ensure your workloads are running on a reliable foundation: We’ve designed Google Cloud to tolerate infrastructure failures and recover […]
GCP – Reading and storing data for custom model training on Vertex AI
Before you can train ML models in the cloud, you need to get your data to the cloud. But when it comes to storing data on Google Cloud there are a lot of different options. Not to mention the different ways you can read in data when designing input pipelines for custom models. Should you […]
GCP – Introducing Threat Ready with Mandiant for safer digital transformations to the cloud
It is an exciting time at Google Cloud as we integrate Mandiant’s intelligence and expertise into our enterprise offerings. Today, I am pleased to announce a new offering, Threat Ready with Mandiant. This new solution can help enterprises protect what matters most to their business, and can help them access Mandiant expertise. Threat Ready with […]