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GCP – The top five global data and AI trends in 2023
How will your organization manage this year’s data growth and business requirements? Your actions and strategies involving data and AI will improve or undermine your organization’s competitiveness in the months and years to come. Our teams at Google Cloud have an eye on the future as we evolve our strategies to protect technology choice, simplify […]

GCP – How Freenome is building the next generation of early cancer detection technology with Google Cloud
It’s incredible to see how startups across industries are using cloud technology to help address some of our most pressing, important, and life-altering challenges. Startups and high-growth technology companies are choosing Google Cloud and using technologies like Google Compute Engine (GCE), BigQuery, Looker, Firebase and more to help businesses reduce energy consumption, build more inclusive […]

GCP – The Denodo Platform meets BigQuery
It’s only natural that the Denodo Platform would achieve theGoogle Cloud Ready – BigQuery designation earlier this month; after all, the Denodo Platform and Google BigQuery have much in common. The Denodo Platform, powered bydata virtualization, enables real-time access across disparate on-premises and cloud data sources, without replication, andBigQuery, the cloud-based enterprise data warehouse (EDW) […]

GCP – Black History Month: Celebrating the success of Black founders: Kanarys
Editor’s note: Black History Month is an opportunity for us all to join and celebrate the diverse outlooks and identities that make up the Black experience. Over the next few weeks, we will profile Black-led startups and how they use Google Cloud to grow their businesses. This feature highlights Mandy Price, CEO and Co-Founder, and […]

GCP – Document AI Workbench is now Generally Available to train document extraction models for your production use cases
Each day, more documents are created and used across companies to make decisions. However, the value in these documents is primarily expressed as unstructured data, which makes the value difficult and manually intensive to extract and use for business processes. As the number and variety of documents used by businesses proliferate, machine learning (ML) solutions […]

Azure – Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 66 – February 2023
This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Backup: Enhanced experience for creating and managing private endpoints for Recovery Services vaults is now available
Azure Backup now provides an improved experience for creating and using private endpoints for your Recovery Services vaults. Read More for the details.

GCP – Orange: Three unexpected lessons about AI in business
Sometimes it seems like there are two forms of Artificial Intelligence. There is the AI you see in movies, which is hyper intelligent, all-powerful, and probably out to take your job. We could call it sci-fi AI. Then there is the AI that companies like Orange are putting into our day-to-day businesses, often with impressive […]

AWS – Announcing AWS ParallelCluster 3.5 with a new UI for AWS ParallelCluster
AWS ParallelCluster 3.5 is now generally available and expands your choices and flexibility by adding the graphical user interface for AWS ParallelCluster to help you set up, monitor, and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters on AWS. Other important features in this release include: Enhancements designed to improve visibility for cluster errors during compute node […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Cases now supports AWS PrivateLink
You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access Amazon Connect Cases from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the public internet. Read More for the details.