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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.
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Microsoft Introduces Azure Front Door, a Scalable Service for Protecting Web Applications
In a recent blog post, Microsoft introduced the general availability (GA) of Azure Front Door (AFD), a scalable and secure entry point for web applications. The underlying technology in Azure Front Door, has been in place inside of Microsoft for the past five years where it has enabled scaling and protection for many popular Microsoft services including Office 365, Xbox, and Microsoft Teams.
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Fastly Open-Sources Lucet, Its WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime
The Fastly edge cloud platform recently open-sourced Lucet, its native WebAssembly compiler and runtime. Lucet enables edge developers to build custom solutions for the edge at scale without limitations imposed by vendors, programming languages, or application programming interfaces (API).
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Microsoft Expands the Availability of Its Cognitive Services: Anomaly Detector and Custom Vision
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Anomaly Detector and general availability of Custom Vision. With both services, Microsoft further expands its Cognitive Services offering for its customers.
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Deploying Rust-Generated WASM on Cloudflare Serverless Workers
Recently open-sourced by Cloudfare, Wrangler is a set of CLI tools to build, preview, and publish Cloudfare Workers written in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly.
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Windows Virtual Desktop Public Preview on Azure: Q&A with Microsoft's Scott Manchester
InfoQ caught up with Scott Manchester, group program manager at Microsoft for Windows Virtual Desktop, regarding the public preview on Azure announcement.
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Google's New Cloud Security Services for Better Threat Detection and Protection in Enterprises
Google announced three new services for better threat detection and protection in enterprises: Web Risk API, Cloud Armor, and Cloud HSM. All these security services will offer Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers advanced security functionalities.
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JUnit Project Moves to Azure Pipelines for Builds
JUnit, a unit testing framework for Java, is one of the most popular libraries used by Java developers. The JUnit team recently announced they've adopted Azure Pipelines for continuous integration (CI).