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Google Announces the General Availability of A2 Virtual Machines
Recently, Google announced A2 Virtual Machines (VMs)' general availability based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPUs in Compute Engine. According to the company, the A2 VMs will allow customers to run their NVIDIA CUDA-enabled machine learning (ML) and high-performance computing (HPC) scale-out and scale-up workloads efficiently at a lower cost.
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Google Bolsters Cloud Spanner with Point-in-Time Recovery
Google recently released a point-in-time-recovery feature for its Cloud Spanner database that aims to help protect against accidental data loss and corruption. The new point-in-time recovery (PITR) features seek to provide users more granular control over data recovery processes.
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Consul-Terraform-Sync Enables Automating of Common Networking Tasks
HashiCorp has moved Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS) into full general availability. CTS allows for the definition of tasks as Terraform modules that can be run as services are added or removed from Consul. CTS is part of a solution called Network Infrastructure Automation (NIA) which focuses on automating day two network tasks such as updating load balancer pools or firewall policies.
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Cloudflare Announces New Web Application Firewall
Cloudflare has recently introduced a new Web Application Firewall. The latest engine is written in Rust, provides better performances and integrates with other Cloudflare products.
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Google Announces the Public Preview of Network Connectivity Center
Recently Google announced the preview of Network Connectivity Center, a new service for network connectivity management in Google Cloud. With the network service on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), enterprises can create, connect, and manage heterogeneous on-prem and cloud networks from a single place.
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Amazon Elasticsearch Service Introduces Auto-Tune
Amazon has recently announced the Auto-Tune feature in Amazon Elasticsearch Service, a closed-loop control system that adapts the Elasticsearch cluster to the running workload. The new automated memory management provides better ingestion throughput for log analytics workloads and reduced tail latencies for search queries.
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.NET News Roundup - Week of March 22th, 2021
This past week was marked by the online streaming of Cloud Builders Conf and the release of Unity 2020 LTS. InfoQ examined these and a number of smaller stories in the .NET ecosystem from the week of March 22th, 2021.
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Amazon Announces S3 Object Lambda: Run Code Dynamically During Retrieval
Amazon has recently announced S3 Object Lambda, a new serverless feature to add customized code and process data from S3 before returning it to an application. S3 Object Lambda works with S3 GET requests and uses AWS Lambda functions to modify data as it is being retrieved from the object storage.
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Q&A with William Denniss Regarding Google Kubernetes Engine Autopilot Mode
InfoQ caught up with William Denniss, product manager at Google regarding Autopilot -- a hands-off operations mode for Google Kubernetes Engine.
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How Project Cyclop Enabled GitHub to Reduce Push Failures to Nearly Zero
GitHub spawned Project Cyclop several months ago to identify what caused occasional push failures and to find a fix. It turns out there was no single culprit, and a careful analysis led to identifying a number of changes that improved push traffic by at least an order of magnitude, according to GitHub.
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Microsoft Announces Azure Monitor SQL Insights for Azure SQL in Public Preview
Recently Microsoft announced Azure Monitor SQL Insights for Azure SQL in public preview. With the preview, customers will get a flexible canvas for telemetry collection, analysis, and rich custom visualization.
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Grafana Adds Enterprise Logs to Its Managed Observability Stack
Grafana Labs recently released a new log aggregation module for Grafana Enterprise Stack, its commercial observability platform.. Grafana Enterprise Logs ingests and stores logs from applications and other components. When using the module with other components of the Grafana Enterprise Stack, users can configure dashboards to display log data alongside metrics.
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Azure Functions Support for node.JS 14 and .Net 5 Is Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced its Function as a Service (FaaS) offering Azure Functions now supports Node.js 14 and .NET 5. Developers can develop and deploy function applications leveraging the latest long-term supported (LTS) version of Node.js and the latest version of .NET.
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The Pillars of Future Cryptography at IBM
In a recent webinar, IBM summarized the latest advances in cryptographic technologies the company has been working on, including confidential cryptography, quantum-safe encryption, and fully homomorphic cryptography.
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Amazon Redshift Data Sharing Now Generally Available
Amazon has recently announced the general availability of the Amazon Redshift Data Sharing functionality to share live data across Amazon Redshift clusters. This allows the use of a single data warehouse cluster for multi-cluster deployments and sharing data instantly without the need to copy or move them.