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GCP – Why IT leaders choose Google Cloud certification for their teams
As organizations worldwide move to the cloud, it’s become increasingly crucial to provide teams with confidence and the right skills to get the most out of cloud technology. With demand for cloud expertise exceeding the supply of talent, many businesses are looking for new, cost-effective ways to keep up. When ongoing skills gaps stifle productivity, […]
GCP – Application Rationalization through Google Cloud’s CAMP Framework
On April 6th, 2022, Google Cloud established a new partnership with CAST, to help accelerate the migration and application modernization programs of customers worldwide, complementing the Google capabilities already available through the Google Cloud Application Modernization Program (CAMP). Application Rationalization (App Rat) is the first step towards a cloud adoption or migration journey, through which […]
GCP – Change streams for Cloud Spanner: now generally available
At this year’s Google Data Cloud Summit, we announced Cloud Spanner change streams. Today, we are thrilled to announce the general availability of change streams. With change streams, Spanner users are now able to track and stream out changes (inserts, updates, and deletes) from their Cloud Spanner database in near real-time. Change streams provides a […]
AWS – The AWS Panorama Appliance is now available for purchase in India and Taiwan
Customers in India and Taiwan can now purchase an AWS Panorama Appliance through the AWS Elemental purchase order process, a streamlined sales assisted ordering experience through the AWS Console that matches your corporate procurement workflow with the ability to pay via purchase order. With the expansion, customers can purchase Panorama through AWS Elemental in 49 […]
GCP – Accelerate your High Performance Computing journey with new Google Cloud HPC Toolkit
Introducing the Cloud HPC Toolkit Running High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads in the cloud provides many benefits, including the flexibility to create and tear down whole clusters within minutes. However, that flexibility comes with complexity. How do you pick the right machine configuration? How do you install your preferred scheduler? Set up your choice of […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager announces support for port forwarding to remote hosts using Session Manager
AWS Systems Manager announces support for port forwarding to remote hosts using Session Manager. 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. Session Manager, a capability of Systems Manager, provides secure access to managed instances in your cloud, on-premises, or […]
GCP – Take the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Survey
The State of DevOps report by Google Cloud and the DORA research team is the largest and longest running research of its kind with inputs from over 32,000 professionals worldwide. It provides an independent view into the practices and capabilities that organizations, irrespective of their size, industry, and region, can employ to drive better performance. […]
GCP – Enterprise DevOps Guidebook – Chapter 1
The Google Cloud DORA team has been hard at work releasing our yearly Accelerate State of DevOps report. This research provides an independent view into the practices and capabilities that organizations, irrespective of their size, industry, and region, can employ to drive better performance. Year over year, the State of DevOpsreport helps organizations benchmark themselves against […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 M6id instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of new general purpose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6id instances. M6id instances are powered by third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code name Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, equipped with up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based solid state disk […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 C6id instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of the new compute optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6id instances. C6id instances are powered by third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code name Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, equipped with up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based solid state […]