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AWS – Amazon Braket adds support for a neutral atom quantum processor named Aquila from QuEra Computing Inc.
Amazon Braket, the quantum computing service from AWS, adds support for Aquila, a new neutral atom-based quantum processor from QuEra Computing Inc. As a special purpose device designed for solving optimization problems and the study of quantum phenomena in nature, it enables researchers in industry and academia to explore a new, analog paradigm in quantum […]

GCP – Can writing code be emotional? Google Cloud’s Kelsey Hightower says yes
Editor’s note: Kelsey Hightower is Google Cloud’s Principal Developer Advocate, meeting customers, contributing to open source projects, and speaking at internal and external events on cutting-edge technologies in cloud computing. A deep thinker and a charismatic speaker, he’s also unusually adept at championing a rarely-noticed aspect of software engineering; it’s really emotional stuff. So how […]

GCP – Real-time Data Integration from Oracle to Google BigQuery Using Striim
Editor’s notes: In this guest blog, we have the pleasure of inviting Alok Pareek, Founder & EVP Products, at Striim to share latest experimental results from a performance study on real-time data integration from Oracle to Google Cloud BigQuery using Striim. Relational databases like Oracle are designed to store data, but they aren’t well suited […]

GCP – Meet Google Cloud at Supercomputing 2022
Google Cloud is excited to announce our participation in the Supercomputing 2022 (SC22) conference in Dallas, TX from November 13th – 18th, 2022. Supercomputing is the premier conference for High Performance Computing and is a great place to see colleagues, learn about the latest technologies, and meet with vendors, partners and HPC users. We’re looking […]

GCP – What’s new in Firestore from Cloud Next and Firebase Summit 2022
Developers love Firestore because of how fast they can build an application end to end. Over 4 million databases have been created in Firestore, and Firestore applications power more than 1 billion monthly active end users using Firebase Auth. We want to ensure developers can focus on productivity and enhanced developer experience, especially when their […]

GCP – Introducing reCAPTCHA Enterprise’s Mobile SDK to help protect iOS, Android apps
reCAPTCHA Enterprise is Google’s online fraud detection service that leverages more than a decade of experience defending the internet. reCAPTCHA Enterprise can be used to prevent fraud and attacks perpetrated by scripts, bot software, and humans. When installed inside a mobile app at the point of action, such as login, purchase, or account creation, reCAPTCHA […]

GCP – Navigate more sustainably and optimize for fuel savings with eco-friendly routing
Eco-friendly routing is now available to developers in Preview. Improving fuel efficiency can help lower your fleet’s fuel/energy usage and CO2 emissions. Starting today, you’ll have the option to enable eco-friendly routing in your web and mobile experiences. Eco-friendly routing is a feature of the new Routes API. When you enable eco-friendly routing, you can […]

GCP – Introducing Cloud Workstations: Managed and Secure Development environments in the cloud
With the unprecedented increase in remote collaboration over the last two years, development teams have had to find new ways to collaborate, driving increased demand for tools to address the productivity challenges of this new reality. This distributed way of working also introduces new security risks, such as data exfiltration — information leaving the company’s […]

GCP – Databases on Google Cloud Part 7: Managed Service for Prometheus, Serverless MongoDB Atlas and the Finale
The Best Sunday of Summer! Is it already past October? Trust me, this 7-part blog-series journey with you all has been very eventful for me and I had the most fun, experimenting with various Google Cloud databases, serverless options, fun Machine Learning use cases and what not! It was an enthralling Google Cloud Summer spread, […]
Azure – Review your VNET configurations in Switzerland North that may be affected by IP address changes
On 30 September 2023 we’re making the resource providers for Azure API Management zone redundant in each region. Read More for the details.