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Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.02
This quality release includes bug fixes in the Azure Sphere OS. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Managed Lustre
Accelerate HPC and AI workloads with a managed parallel file system Read More for the details.
Azure – GA: Create disks from CMK-encrypted snapshots across subscriptions and in the same tenant
To ease manageability, we are making disks encrypted with customer-managed keys (CMK) more flexible by allowing creation of disks and snapshots from CMK-encrypted source across subscriptions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing Smart Data Validation for Amazon Fraud Detector
Today, Amazon Fraud Detector (AFD) announced the launch of Smart Data Validation, a new feature which helps customers streamline their data preparation process for a successful batch import. Smart Data Validation helps customers save time and resources by validating data at the time of import. This new feature reduces the time to validate and fix […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces new Synthetics NodeJS runtime version 3.9
Today, we are announcing an update for Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics canaries to use the Synthetics NodeJS runtime version 3.9. This update updates dependency packages and addresses the planned deprecation of Synthetics NodeJS runtime versions 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8. Read More for the details.
GCP – No cash to tip? No problem. How TackPay built its digital tipping platform on Google Cloud
Society is going cashless. While convenient for consumers, that’s caused a drastic decrease in income for tipped workers and this is the problem TackPay addresses. TackPay is a mobile platform that allows users to send, receive and manage tips in a completely digital way, providing tipped workers with a virtual tip jar that makes it […]
GCP – How Google Cloud Armor helps Broadcom block DDoS Attacks
Technology leader Broadcom is a worldwide provider of enterprise security solutions that leverages its expertise in hardware and software to offer a broad portfolio of embedded security solutions, including integrated Symantec cybersecurity software. In 2021, Broadcom received the Google Cloud DevOps Award. As Broadcom migrated its enterprise security solution infrastructure from Amazon Web Services to […]
GCP – To grow the Brake Masters’ network, IT team chooses ChromeOS
Today’s post is by Steve Waibel, Director of IT for Brake Masters, an automotive repair chain based in Tucson, Arizona. Brake Masters has 78 company-owned and managed locations as well as 22 franchise stores in the southwestern United States. The company is using ChromeOS devices to simplify management of devices used by service teams. The […]
Azure – Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files support for 2TiB capacity pools
Azure NetApp Files now supports smaller 2TiB capacity pool sizes, lowered from 4TiB, when used with volumes using standard network features. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports early notifications of Auto minor Version Upgrades (AmVU)
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports early notifications of Auto minor Version Upgrades (AmVU) for instances via Pending Maintenance Actions (PMA), enhancing usability of AmVU. Read More for the details.