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AWS – Amazon Timestream now enables you to protect your data through AWS Backup
Amazon Timestream announces a fully managed data protection functionality through integration with AWS Backup. You can now protect your time series data through immutable backups, automate backup lifecycle management, copy your backup across AWS Regions and accounts, and restore your data with ease. Read More for the details.

GCP – BigQuery Omni: solving cross-cloud challenges by bringing analytics to your data
Research shows that over 90% of large organizations already deploy multicloud architectures, and their data is distributed across several public cloud providers. Additionally, data is also increasingly split across various storage systems such as warehouses, operational and relational databases, object stores, etc. With the proliferation of new applications, data is serving many more use cases […]

GCP – IT prediction: Multicloud is a phase, not the final destination
Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing series on IT predictions from Google Cloud experts. Check out the full list of our predictions on how IT will change in the coming years. Prediction: Over half of all organizations using public cloud will freely switch their primary cloud provider as a result of available […]

Azure – General availability: Feature enhancements to Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Azure’s WAF now supports multiple new features – SQLi and XSS detection queries, new built-in Azure policies, and increased exclusions limit with support for exclusions on bot manager rule set. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally Available: Azure Dedicated Host – Restart
Introducing Azure dedicated host – Restart functionality Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Arc-enabled servers in Azure China
Secure, govern, and manage your hybrid servers from Azure Read More for the details.

GCP – Introductory Google Cloud computing training for students now available on edX
Google Cloud has a new partnership with edX, a leading global online learning platform from 2U, Inc. and have launched a new Professional Certificate program on the platform. This new program will provide millions of learners with the skills needed to prepare for high-growth entry level cloud roles. It builds foundational cloud skills and prepares […]

GCP – ANZ Bank turns to Apigee to execute a secure and compliant API strategy
ANZ Bank is one of Australia’s top four banks and the largest bank in New Zealand by market capitalization. Headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria, we operate in more than 32 markets across Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Pacific, Europe, America and the Middle East. Our Payment team deals with all payment transaction types by providing highly secure, […]

GCP – Using Vertex AI to build an industry leading Peer Group Benchmarking solution
The modern world of financial markets is fraught with volatility and uncertainty. Market participants and members are rethinking the way they approach problems and rapidly changing the way they do business. Access to models, usage patterns, and data has become key to keeping up with ever evolving markets. One of the biggest challenges firms face […]
GCP – Year in review: What Chrome browser brought to enterprises in 2022
It’s hard to believe that 2022 is almost over. As the year wraps up, we wanted to do a quick recap of all of the improvements we made to Chrome for our enterprise customers this year. As more work is being done on the web, it’s crucial for enterprises to have a browser that fits […]