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GCP – AI Booster: how Vodafone is supercharging AI & ML at scale
One of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, Vodafone is at the forefront of building next-generation connectivity and a sustainable digital future. Creating this digital future requires going beyond what’s possible today and unlocking significant investment in new technology and change. For Vodafone, a key driver is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and […]
Azure – Public preview: Ephemeral OS disk support for confidential virtual machines
Create confidential VMs using Ephemeral OS disks for your stateless workloads. Read More for the details.
Azure – Limited preview: Smart tiering to vault-archive tier for Azure Backup
You can now configure your backup policy to move all your eligible and recommended recovery points to vault-archive tier for Azure Virtual Machines, SQL Server/SAP HANA in Azure Virtual Machines. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Percept DK June (2206) software update
The Azure Percept March update includes fixes related to security. Read More for the details.
AWS – Deploy scale-out SAP HANA deployments using AWS Launch Wizard and Amazon EC2 x2idn/ r6i instances
AWS Launch Wizard now allows you to deploy SAP HANA in a scale-out architecture using Amazon EC2 x2idn and r6i instances. Customers can deploy up to 16 nodes (1 primary node and 15 secondary nodes) using these instance types. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing availability of AWS Outposts rack in Panama
AWS Outposts rack can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Panama. Read More for the details.
GCP – More support for structured logs in new version of Go logging library
The new version of the Google logging client library for Go has been released. Version 1.5 adds new features and bug fixes including new structured logging capabilities that complete last year’s effort to enrich structured logging support in Google logging client libraries. Here are few of the new features in v1.5: Faster and more robust […]
AWS – Amazon WorkMail now supports invoking Lambdas to fetch availability (free/busy)
Amazon WorkMail now supports invoking AWS Lambda for user availability, through Custom Availability Provider Lambdas (CAP Lambdas). CAP Lambdas are a new way for WorkMail to get availability information from external availability sources. A customer can use these CAP Lambdas to give WorkMail access to availability information for users on other calendaring providers they own, […]
AWS – AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces can now enable and disable active routes
Today, AWS announced the ability to toggle routes on and off when using AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces. This feature lets customers create inactive routes which can be activated after creation once the route’s targeted service is ready to receive traffic. Customers can use route toggling to fine-tune their routing approach and deliver just-in-time route […]
AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports IBM Db2 z/OS as a source
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now supports IBM Db2 z/OS as a source for the full load operational mode. Using AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT), you can convert schemas and code objects from IBM DB2 z/OS to Aurora MySQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, MySQL and PostgreSQL targets. Once you have the schema and objects in a format […]