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AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds flow alerts for easier troubleshooting
Starting today, AWS Elemental MediaConnect has new flow alerts enabling quicker debugging of MediaConnect flows, sources, and outputs. The new alerts are available via the MediaConnect API as a text string and the AWS Management Console under the Alerts tab of a flow. The alerts will complement the existing CloudWatch Metrics and CloudWatch Events for MediaConnect. Read […]

GCP – Delivering ongoing value with a deliberate customer success strategy
Google invests in customer experience Data Capital Management (DCM) was looking to advance the development of AI investment methods by migrating to Google Cloud. DCM needed a cloud provider and support service that was more than just technical support to fix short-term issues. Instead, they wanted a true strategic ally that could provide access to […]

GCP – Partnering with Malaysia’s Universities to prepare students for a cloud-first world
As part of Google’s skills programs around the world, Google recently launched Gemilang, its new digital training programme in Malaysia, that offers flexible learning paths for all Malaysians. This includes the Google Cloud Skills pathway, which is available to higher education students, thanks to our partnerships with local universities such as UNITEN. Gemilang helps learners develop […]

GCP – Document AI adds one-click model training with ML Workbench
Each day, countless documents are created, revised, and shared across organizations. The result is a treasure trove of information, but because the data is primarily unstructured — without rows, columns or some other predefined organizational schema — it is difficult to interpret, analyze or use for business processes. That’s why we introducedDocument AI: so users […]

GCP – UKG Ready, People Insights on Google Cloud
Business Problem UKG Ready primarily operates in the Small and Medium Business (SMB) space, so inherently many customers are forced to operate and make key business decisions with less Workforce Management (WFM) / Human Capital Management (HCM) data. In addition to volume, SMB lacks the variety of data needed to create a dynamic and agile organization. […]

GCP – Unlocking the power of connected vehicle data and advanced analytics with BigQuery
As software-defined vehicles continue to advance and the quantity of digital services grows to meet consumer demand, the data required to provide these services continue to grow as well. This makes automotive manufacturers and suppliers look for capabilities to log and analyze data, update applications, and extend commands to in-vehicle software. The challenges the automotive […]

GCP – Join the Google Cloud BI Hackathon
Calling all developers, innovators and data scientists – collaborate and build new innovative applications, tools, and data experiences on Looker and Looker Studio. Join our virtual 2 day hackathon on December 6th and win the “Best Hack” award. More reasons to join: Meet and team up with your developer community and Google Cloud Innovators Gain […]

GCP – Skaffold v2 GA: Further enhancing developer productivity
For years, Google has been committed to maximizing developer productivity. In 2019, we announced the general availability of Skaffold, a command-line tool that facilitates continuous development and delivery for containerized applications. Today, we’re excited to announce that Skaffold V2 is now generally available. Skaffold V2 expands Skaffold’s supported platforms and architectures with the introduction of […]

GCP – Google is a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services
For the fifth consecutive year, Gartner® has named Google a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services. Over the past year, we have continued to invest in platform and go-to-market capabilities that have an immediate impact on the speed and simplicity of building solutions on Google Cloud. We are […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 X2idn instances now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) region
Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2idn instances are available in Asia-Pacific(Osaka) region. X2idn instance, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (code named Ice Lake), are designed for memory-intensive workloads and deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1 instances. X2idn has a 16:1 […]