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Google Launches AI Platform - an End-to-End Platform to Build, Run, and Manage ML Projects
Google has recently launched AI Platform, an end-to-end platform to build, test, and deploy machine learning models. It brings together a host of products and services to help businesses solve complex challenges using AI in a way that is easier and collaborative.
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Fully Managed Blockchain Networks with Amazon Managed Blockchain Now Generally Available
Introduced at the AWS re:Invent 2018 event, Amazon Managed Blockchain has left preview and reached general availability. This new service aims to simplify creating and managing scalable blockchain networks based on Hyperledger Fabric and, soon, Ethereum.
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Partly Cloudy, Twitter Embarks on Their Cloud Journey
In a recent blog post, Twitter announced the start of their journey, a project known internally as "Partly Cloudy", to the public cloud. The post outlines some of the constraints that have prevented them from doing so in the past and describes why now is a good time to embark on this transformation.
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Google Announces Cloud Code: Extending IntelliJ and Visual Studio Code to Kubernetes Apps
Recently at Google Cloud Next 2019, Google introduced a new developer tool called Cloud Code. With Cloud Code, developers will get a set of plugins for development environments like JetBrains IntelliJ Idea IDE and Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor.
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Salesforce Adds Intelligence to its Einstein Services Offering
In a recent press release, Salesforce announced additions to their Einstein platform that target bringing AI solutions to Salesforce developers and admins using a low code, point and click configuration-based solution. The recent additions to the platform include Einstein Translation and Einstein Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
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Q&A with Google VP Eyal Manor about Anthos, Kubernetes, and Multicloud
InfoQ caught up with Eyal Manor, VP of product and engineering, Google Cloud, as a follow-on to his appearance at the Google Next keynote to deep dive into the Anthos architecture.
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Nimbus: New Framework for Building Java Serverless Applications
The Nimbus framework is a Java framework that aims to ease the development, testing, and deployment of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) applications in the cloud by providing a cloud-agnostic, common interface for interacting with cloud providers’ serverless functionality.
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Google Announces Several Updates to Database Services
Google has announced several new products and features for the database services on Google Cloud Platform. These announcements include Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server, version 11 support for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and multi-region replication for Cloud Bigtable.
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Google Releases Anthos, a Hybrid Cloud Platform, to General Availability
Recently, Google announced on their blog the general availability of Anthos, a service for hybrid cloud and workload management that runs on the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Furthermore, besides running on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), it also allows customers to manage workloads running on third-party clouds like AWS and Azure.
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Microsoft Announces General Availability of SignalR Service Bindings in Azure Functions
Microsoft has announced the general availability of SignalR Service bindings in Azure Functions, which provides the ability to push messages and content updates in real-time to connected clients. Moreover, this would start through the various triggers of Azure Functions, including services such as Cosmos DB and Service Bus.
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Google Announces the General Availability of Elastifile Cloud File Service for GCP
Recently, Google announced the availability of Elastifile Cloud File Service (ECFS) for its Cloud Platform (GCP) on their blog website. With ECFS, Google provides a managed file service for its customers.
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Bringing Intelligence to Enterprise Content Management, Google Releases Document Understanding AI
At the recent Google Cloud Next Conference, Google announced a new beta machine learning service, called Document Understanding AI. The service targets Enterprise Content Management (ECM) workloads by allowing customers to organize, classify and extract key value pairs from unstructured content, in the enterprise, using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).
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Running Serverless Containers on Google Cloud Run
Google Cloud Run, now available in beta, allows you to run serverless applications based on Docker containers that are automatically activated when an HTTP request comes in. Google Cloud Run is a fully managed platform and is based on KNative, which allows you to easily port your applications to any other platforms using Kubernetes clusters.
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Amazon Expands Its Machine Learning Offering with AWS Deep Learning Containers
Recently, Amazon introduced AWS Deep Learning Containers (AWS DL Containers), which are Docker images pre-installed with deep learning frameworks allowing customers to deploy custom machine learning environments quickly.
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Hazelcast Release Managed Cloud Offering
Hazelcast, a vendor of distributed compute technology, including an open-source in-memory data grid (IMDG), recently revealed the general availability of a new, fully managed, cloud-based offering called Hazelcast Cloud.