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GCP – Introducing Batch, a new managed service for scheduling batch jobs at any scale
Today, we’re excited to announce the Preview release of our fully managed service, Batch, which provides easy access to Google Cloud’s computing power and scale. Batch processing is as old as computing itself, with the term ‘batch’ dating back to the punchcards used by early mainframes. Batch uses resources very efficiently and remains the preferred […]

GCP – Security Monitoring in Google Cloud
Moving to the cloud comes with the fundamental question of how to effectively manage security and risk posture. From a Security Operations (SecOps) perspective, there are few core requirements that you may need for effective security and risk management in the cloud. Here are four big ones that are essential for SecOps: Need a single, […]

GCP – Google Meet and Miro come together to create great collaborative moments
A great meeting experience is one that allows everyone to fully participate, whether they’re in the conference room or joining remotely. Ideally, we all have a clear understanding of the meeting’s objective, have access to the same collaboration tools, and walk away with a clear action plan and timeline. For me, that’s meeting nirvana. To […]

GCP – Track, compare, manage experiments with Vertex AI Experiments
Managing experiments is one of the main challenges for data science teams. Finding the best modeling approach that works for a particular problem requires both hypothesis testing and trial-and-error. Tracking development and outcomes using docs and spreadsheets is neither reliable nor easy to share. Consequently the process of ML development is severely affected. Indeed, not […]

GCP – Making AI more accessible for every business
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has compared the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) to the impact of electricity—so it may be no surprise that at Google Cloud, we expect to see increased AI and machine learning (ML) momentum across the spectrum of users and use cases. Some of the momentum is more foundational, such as […]

Azure – Public preview: Azure Active Directory authentication for exporting and importing Managed Disks
Improve security with the new integration to Azure Active Directory (AD) used to export and import data to Azure Managed Disks. Read More for the details.

GCP – Multicloud strategy for the public sector: Optimize return, mitigate risk
Government organizations are starting to realize that no single cloud can meet their wide range of needs. According to the Nutanix 2022 Enterprise Cloud Index1, 75% of public sector organizations agree that multicloud is ideal, and more public sector organizations than average have adopted multicloud as a primary IT operating model (outpacing the global average). […]

GCP – How to think about threat detection in the cloud
As your organization transitions from on-premises to hybrid cloud or pure cloud, how you think about threat detection must evolve as well—especially when confronting threats across many cloud environments. A new foundational framework for thinking about threat detection in public cloud computing is needed to better secure digital transformations. Because these terms have had different […]

AWS – Introducing Log Anomaly Detection and Recommendations for Amazon DevOps Guru
Today, we are announcing the general availability of a new feature, Log Anomaly Detection and Recommendations for Amazon DevOps Guru. As part of this feature, DevOps Guru will ingest Amazon CloudWatch Logs for AWS resources that make up your application, with Lambda being first. Logs will provide new enrichment data in an insight to enable […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces support for Row-Level Security (RLS)
Amazon Redshift now supports Row-Level Security (RLS), a new enhancement that simplifies design and implementation of fine-grained access to the rows in tables. With RLS, you can restrict access to a subset of rows within a table based on the users’ job role or permissions and level of data sensitivity with SQL commands. By combining column-level […]