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GCP – How Managed Security Service Providers can accelerate their business with Google Cloud Security’s Partner Program using Google Chronicle
Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) can deliver high-value security services for customers, helping to drive efficiencies in security operations across people, product, and processes. In an environment where the threat landscape continues to be challenging, MSSPs can allow customers to scale their security teams driving enhanced security outcomes. At the same time, MSSPs operating their […]

Azure – Public preview: Azure Bastion support for Kerberos authentication
Azure Bastion now supports the Kerberos authentication protocol in public preview. Read More for the details.

GCP – Modernizing Transportation Operations: Smarter Tolling and Beyond
Central Texas, which includes the City of Austin, is one of the fastest growing regions in the country. Enterprise technology companies are expanding their presence and an entrepreneurial spirit thrives in the region. Rapid growth brings new transportation challenges and opportunities, and the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (CTRMA) is on the front lines of […]

GCP – Analyze Pacemaker events in Cloud Logging
Customer’s deploying SAP on Google Cloud often leverage Pacemaker for high availability to support their most critical systems. Let’s take a look at how you can use Cloud Logging to easily conduct root cause analysis of Pacemaker clusters. When there are multiple Pacemaker clusters running in Google Cloud platform, a central logging place can help […]

GCP – Application observability made easier for Compute Engine
When IT operators and architects begin their journey with Google Cloud, Day 0 observability needs tend to focus on infrastructure and aim to address questions about resource needs, a plan for scaling, and similar considerations. During this phase, developers and DevOps engineers also make a plan for how to get deep observability into the performance […]

GCP – Best practices for upgrading your Anthos clusters on bare metal
If you’re using Anthos to enable a hybrid or multicloud deployment, one option is to run the Kubernetes-based platform directly on bare metal hardware, without a virtualization layer. Running your applications on Anthos clusters on bare metal delivers strong performance and flexibility, while allowing you to modernize your applications: Anthos clusters on bare metal are […]

GCP – Google Cloud Cortex Framework extends offering in latest release and beyond
Last year we announced an exciting new initiative, Google Cloud Cortex Framework, to accelerate business outcomes with less risk, complexity, and cost. By providing endorsed solution content, including reference architectures, deployment accelerators and integration services for common business scenarios, Google Cloud Cortex Framework helps you kickstart time-to-value to get up and running quickly with Google […]

AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces launches APIs to allow custom branding
Starting today, Amazon WorkSpaces is offering APIs that allow you to customize your users Amazon WorkSpaces experience with your logo, login message, and help links on the WorkSpaces client login page. Using your own brand provides a familiar look and feel when users access your WorkSpaces. Adding your own help links makes it easy for […]

AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew now supports the ORC file format as an input
AWS Glue DataBrew customers are now able to clean and transform data stored in the Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) file format, a widely used data format for storing Hive data. When creating a dataset in AWS Glue DataBrew, you can now use ORC files in addition to already supported Apache Avro, Apache Parquet, Microsoft Excel, […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports Global Datastore in two new Regions
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports Global Datastore in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Europe (Stockholm) Regions. Global Datastore is a feature of ElastiCache for Redis that provides fully managed, fast, reliable, and secure cross-Region replication. Using Global Datastore, you can write to your ElastiCache for Redis cluster in one Region and have the data […]