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GCP – Introducing more ways to protect corporate applications with BeyondCorp Enterprise
As part of our efforts to democratize Zero Trust, Google Cloud has designed our BeyondCorp Enterprise solution to be an extensible platform where customers can choose to integrate signals from other technology vendors and incorporate these into their Zero Trust access policies. Following our integrations announcements earlier this year, we are excited to announce a […]

GCP – Announcing Advanced Polylines for the Maps SDKs for Android
As part of our ongoing efforts to enable developers to further style and customize the Google basemap, today we’re announcing the launch of advanced polyline styling for the Maps SDK for Android. This feature builds on the polylines capability we currently offer, which allows developers to create stylized lines rendered on the map, and are […]

GCP – Transportation leaders share real-world stories of digital transformation
Transportation leaders are facing challenges in providing safe and effective mobility. Road fatalities have reached a 16-year high, extreme weather and climate risks are calling for a more resilient infrastructure, and there’s a growing urgency to address equity gaps. Furthermore, agencies are struggling to attract and retain talent, meaning teams need to be empowered to do more with […]

GCP – American Medical Facilities Management’s skilled nursing centers scale seamlessly with ChromeOS
Editor’s note:Today’s post is by David Anderson, CIO for American Medical Facilities Management (AMFM), a group of 19 skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers in West Virginia. AMFM has adopted Chrome Enterprise Upgrade and ChromeOS devices to equip its frontline healthcare workers with seamless access to their caregiving apps and data. AMFM’s skilled nursing centers scale […]

Azure – Generally available: Reserved capacity for Azure Backup Storage
Reserved capacity for Azure Backup Storage is now available. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Standard network features for Azure NetApp Files
Standard network features for Azure NetApp Files is generally available in 20 regions. Read More for the details.

GCP – Implementing observability for always-on Ecommerce experience
In today’s Digital age, the emphasis continues to be on automation and improving business processes, employee productivity and customer experiences to meet the ever changing business and consumer expectations. According to Gartner, organizations will require more IT and business process automation as they are forced to accelerate digital transformation plans in a post pandemic, digital-first […]

GCP – Why I love Go
I’ve been building software over the last four decades, as a developer, manager and executive in both small and large software companies. I started my career working on commercial compilers, first BASIC and then C. I have written a lot of code in many different languages, and managed teams with even broader language usage. I […]

GCP – How Google scales ad personalization with Bigtable
Cloud Bigtable is a popular and widely used key-value database available on Google Cloud. The service provides scale elasticity, cost efficiency, excellent performance characteristics, and 99.999% availability SLA. This has led to massive adoption with thousands of customers trusting Bigtable to run a variety of their mission-critical workloads. Bigtable has been in continuous production usage […]
GCP – Long-term data protection with Persistent Disk Archive Snapshots
Many enterprises need data backups with long-term retention – for months or years – to help support requirements for compliance, audit, or disaster recovery. For example, a workload that generates receipt data might need to keep snapshots of this data for several years, even if the data might never be retrieved or retrieved only rarely. […]