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AWS – AWS Backup adds support for Amazon RDS Multi-AZ clusters
AWS Backup now allows you to protect your Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ clusters with two readable standbys. Amazon RDS Multi-AZ clusters with one primary and two readable standby database (DB) instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) is designed to provide you up to 2x faster transaction commit latency, automated failovers, and readable standby instances. […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation event notifications with Amazon EventBridge help you create event-driven applications
Changes to AWS CloudFormation-based stacks and resources are now available as event notifications in Amazon EventBridge. Customers can use these event notifications to build and scale loosely-coupled event-driven applications. With this feature, customers can trigger actions in real-time after they create, update, or delete either their CloudFormation stacks or resources in their CloudFormation stacks without […]
Azure – General availability: Azure confidential VMs (DCasv5/ECasv5-series VMs)
General availability of Azure confidential Virtual Machines. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
Azure Monitor for SAP solutions allows you to collect and visualize end-to-end SAP telemetry in the Azure portal. Read More for the details.
GCP – The Diversity Annual Report is now a BigQuery public dataset
Since 2014, tech companies have relied on metrics to identify trouble spots, establish baselines, and measure meaningful progress in diversity, including publishing DEI data directly through diversity annual reports. However, as our understanding of DEI has evolved over time each company’s report has diverged, creating a fragmented landscape of industry-wide data. This separation is problematic […]
Azure – Generally available: CI/CD Guidance for Azure IoT Central
CI/CD Guidance and sample code now available for Azure IoT Central deployment pipelines. Read More for the details.
GCP – Using Pacemaker for SAP high availability on Google Cloud – Part 1
Problem Statement Maintaining business continuity of your mission critical systems usually demands high availability (HA) solutions that will failover without human intervention. If you are running SAP HANA or SAP NetWeaver (SAP NW) on Google Cloud, the OS-native high availability (HA) cluster capability provided by Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for SAP and SUSE Linux […]
GCP – Google Workspace earns DOD IL4 authorization
Today, we’re proud to announce that Google Workspace has achieved the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DOD) Impact Level 4 (IL4) authorization. This is an important milestone in our ongoing commitment to serving the needs of federal, state, local, and education entities, through our recently launched Google subsidiary, Google Public Sector. In an environment with a […]
GCP – Streamline data management and governance with the unification of Data Catalog and Dataplex
Today, we are excited to announce that Google Cloud Data Catalog will be unified with Dataplex into a single user interface. With this unification, customers have a single experience to search and discover their data, enrich it with relevant business context, organize it by logical data domains, and centrally govern and monitor their distributed data […]
GCP – The next generation of Dataflow: Dataflow Prime, Dataflow Go, and Dataflow ML
By the end of 2024, 75% of enterprises will shift from piloting to operationalizing artificial intelligence according to IDC, yet the growing complexity of data types, heterogeneous data stacks and programming languages make this a challenge for all data engineers. With the current economic climate, doing more with cheaper costs and higher efficiency have also […]