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GCP – Paperstack uses Google Cloud to empower e-commerce sellers
Facing tight margins, e-commerce retailers are always trying to find the perfect balance between keeping inventory in stock and meeting changing market demands. This challenge has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, where costs and supply chain disruptions continue to rise. Recognizing the challenges facing e-commerce companies, we builtPaperstack. Our competitive financing enables e-commerce companies […]

GCP – Announcing Apache Iceberg support for BigLake
Apache Iceberg is a popular open source table format for customers looking to build data lakes. It provides many features found in enterprise data warehouses, such as transactional DML, time travel, schema evolution, and advanced metadata that unlocks performance optimization. Iceberg’s open specification allows customers to run multiple query engines on a single copy of […]

GCP – What’s Google talking about? Google-y podcast weekend listening
With the weekend approaching I’m looking forward to some browsing at the farmers’ market, some baking at home with my family, and a ton of listening to podcasts. Google’s got you covered if you want some more tech content, as we’ve been expanding the content on our Cloud podcast page with two exciting new series […]

GCP – Introducing gRPC observability for microservices
gRPC is a modern open source high performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment. It plays a critical role in efficiently connecting microservices in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking, authentication and other cross-cutting features. It may also be applied in the last […]

GCP – Customer success starts with ChromeOS
Great customer service leads to happy, engaged customers and directly impacts revenue growth, customer loyalty and brand reputation. Your agents help your customers everyday, ChromeOS helps your agents stay productive and engaged at work. With customer satisfaction still heavily reliant on time to resolution,productivity is paramount for both agent engagement and customer delight. But with […]

GCP – Ensuring fair and open competition in the cloud
Cloud-based computing is one of the most important developments in the digital economy in the last decade. It has reduced costs, improved security, simplified interoperability, and delivered services with unprecedented reach. It has also laid the foundation for entirely new companies. Name any fast-growing business today—Spotify, Revolut, Snap, etc.—and it has likely benefited from the […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage
Premium SSD v2 is the next generation Azure Premium SSD Disk Storage. It offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price-performance. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing Remote Reboot for AWS Panorama
AWS Panorama customers can now remotely reboot their connected AWS Panorama Appliance from the AWS console or by using the AWS Panorama SDK. Before this launch, customers were only able to reboot Panorama Appliance by physically pressing the reboot button on the appliance. As customers deploy Panorama Appliances across multiple sites, they want a scalable […]

AWS – Announcing Camera Stream Pause and Resume on AWS Panorama
AWS Panorama customers can now pause and resume existing camera stream connections within applications deployed on the AWS Panorama Appliance using the AWS Panorama APIs. As customers deploy Panorama Appliances across multiple sites, they want a scalable way to manage individual camera streams without the overhead of a full application deployment. Using this capability, customers […]
AWS – Visualize application health with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights will now auto-generate Application Level Health Dashboards. Application Insights helps you automatically set up monitoring and enhanced observability for AWS resources. With the new health dashboards, you get a centralized view of all aspects of your application, making it easier and faster to view, sort and search your problems. The visual […]