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Azure – Generally available: Industrial IoT Connectivity Partners integrate with Azure IoT Central
Industrial IoT starts with Azure IoT Central. Now you can leverage the expertise of Industrial IoT Connectivity Partners who are ready to connect your industrial assets in hours instead of weeks – no matter if it’s modern or legacy equipment. Read More for the details.

GCP – How Google Cloud helps government agencies stay ahead of security threats
Cybersecurity remains a top national concern, and Google Cloud is committed to providing government agencies with the security capabilities they need to achieve their missions. At the annual Google Cloud Security Summit today, we’re excited to share updates on how we’re helping governments around the world address their pressing security challenges and meet the demands […]

GCP – Twitter takes data activation to new heights with Google Cloud
Twitter is an open, social platform that’s home to a world of diverse people, perspectives, ideas, and information. We aim to foster free and global conversations that allow people to consume, create, distribute, and discover information about the topics they care about the most. Founded in 2006, Twitter keeps a watchful eye on emerging technologies […]

GCP – Introducing the latest Slurm on Google Cloud scripts
Google Cloud is a great home for your high performance computing (HPC) workloads. As with all things Google Cloud, we work hard to make complex tasks seem easy. For HPC, a big part of user friendliness is support for popular tools such as schedulers. If you run high performance computing (HPC) workloads, you’re likely familiar […]

GCP – Cutting-edge disaster recovery for critical enterprise applications
Enterprise data backup and recovery has always been one of the most compelling and widely adopted public cloud use cases. That’s still true today, as businesses leverage the cloud to protect increasingly critical applications with stricter RTO/RPO requirements. Veeam and Google Cloud have long been leaders at providing reliable, verifiable, cloud-based recovery solutions across any […]

GCP – Charting a safer future starts at Google Cloud’s Security Summit
Cybersecurity risks remain at the top of every organization’s agenda. As we progress on our Invisible Security journey, we remain focused on delivering solutions that can make governments and enterprises safer with Google, in our trusted cloud and through SaaS products that bring our security capabilities to on-premises environments and other clouds. At our annual […]

GCP – Announcing federating workloads to Google Cloud with SAML
At Google Cloud, we’re focused on giving customers new ways to strengthen their security posture. Many organizations use service account keys to authenticate for Google Cloud Platform API access, but managing keys can be challenging, especially in multi-cloud scenarios. To help, last year we launched Workload Identity Federation, which allows workloads running on-premises or in […]

GCP – Introducing Google Cloud’s new Assured Open Source Software service
There has been an increasing awareness in the developer community, enterprises, and governments of software supply chain risks. Remediation efforts for vulnerabilities like Log4j and Spring4shell, and a 650% year-over-year increase in cyberattacks aimed at open source suppliers, have sharpened focus on the critical task of bolstering the security of open source software. Governments and […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 I4i metal instances are now available
Starting today, Amazon EC2 I4i metal instances are available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Regions – US East (Ohio and N. Virginia), US West (Oregon) and Europe (Ireland). Designed for storage I/O intensive workloads, I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune is now FedRAMP compliant
Amazon Neptune is now in scope for FedRAMP High in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions, and FedRAMP Moderate in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) Regions. You can now use Amazon Neptune to build applications for workloads that require FedRAMP High or Moderate […]