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Azure – Public preview: Arc-enabled guest VMs with extensions for Azure Stack HCI
Simplify management and configuration of your guest virtual machine. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Stack HCI version 22H2
Evaluate the latest Azure Stack HCI version 22H2 in the preview channel. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Remote support for Arc-enabled Azure Stack HCI
Get remote access to your cluster for support and maintenance purposes. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Marketplace for Arc-enabled Azure Stack HCI
Get popular VM images directly from Microsoft and third-party publishers via the Azure Marketplace. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS re:Post introduces community-generated articles
re:Post now expands the capability for experts community members to share technical guidance and knowledge beyond answering questions through the Articles feature. Using this feature, community members can share best practices, troubleshooting processes, and address customer needs around AWS technology in greater depth. The Articles feature is unlocked for community members who have achieved Rising […]

GCP – Using Google Kubernetes Engine’s GPU sharing to search for neutrinos
Editor’s note: Today we hear from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and University of Wisconsin-Madison about how GPU sharing in Google Kubernetes Engines is helping them detect neutrinos at the South Pole with the gigaton-scale IceCube Neutrino Observatory. IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a detector at the South Pole designed to search for nearly massless […]

GCP – Deploying Arm workloads on GKE Autopilot with the Scale-Out compute class
GKE Autopilot is a full-featured, fully managed Kubernetes platform that combines the full power of the Kubernetes API with a hands-off approach to cluster management and operations. Since launching Autopilot last year, we’ve continued to innovate, adding capabilities to meet the demands of your workloads. We’re excited to introduce the concept of compute classes in […]

GCP – Google Cloud Data Heroes Series: Meet Tomi, a data engineer based in Germany and creator of the ‘Not So BigQuery Newsletter’
Google Cloud Data Heroes is a series where we share stories of the everyday heroes who use our data tools to do incredible things. Like any good superhero tale, we explore our Google Cloud Data Heroes’ origin stories, how they moved from data chaos to a data-driven environment, what projects and challenges they are overcoming […]

GCP – Scalable Python on BigQuery using Dask and GPUs
BigQuery is Google Cloud’s fully managed serverless data platform that supports querying using ANSI SQL. BigQuery also has a data lake storage engine that unifies SQL queries with other open source processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Tensorflow, and Dask. BigQuery storage provides an API layer for OSS engines to process data. This API enables […]
AWS – AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices now supports high performance NFS data transfer in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Snowball Edge (SBE) Storage Optimized devices now support high performance Network File System (NFS) data-transfer operations in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With this launch, AWS GovCloud (US) customers can now transfer up to 80-TBs of data onto Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices through file or object interfaces. The file interface exposes a Network […]