Tag: Pricing

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Brennan Saeta, TensorFlow Tech Lead for Cloud TPUs Deep neural networks have enabled breakthroughs across a variety of business and research challenges, including translating text between languages, transcribing speech, classifying image content, and mastering the game of Go. Because training and running deep learning models can be extremely computationally demanding, we rely on our custom-built Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to power several of our major products, including Translate, Photos, Search, Assistant, and Gmail.Cloud TPUs allow businesses everywhere to transform their own products and services with machine learning, and we’re working hard ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Mitra Sinha. Financial Services organizations regulated by SEC, CFTC, FINRA, IIROC, FCA etc. are required to retain business-related communication in a Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) or immutable state that makes it non-erasable and non-modifiable for a certain retention interval. The immutable storage requirement is not limited to financial organizations, but also applies to industries such as healthcare, insurance, media, public safety, and legal services. Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of immutable storage for Azure Storage Blobs to address this requirement. The feature is available in all Azure public regions. Through configurable policies, users ... Read More

Feed: What's New. To get started, when you create a contact flow, you can retrieve the metrics about the queues and agents in your contact center using the new Get metrics block. You can use the current working queue, or specify a different queue to retrieve metrics for. Then, you can compare the values of the attributes, which are the metrics retrieved, using a Check contact attributes block, which lets you define a condition to compare to the value of an attribute, and then route the call based on the comparison. For example, you can define a condition that compares ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog. Author: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog Team. Innovation in data processing and machine learning technology Putting a Groovy twist on Cloud Vision Monday, June 18, 2018 By Guillaume LaForge, Cloud Developer Advocate and Apache Groovy PMC Chair Powerful machine learning APIs are at your fingertips if you’re developing with Google Cloud Platform, as client libraries are available for various programming languages. Today, we’re investigating the Cloud Vision API and its Java SDK, using the Apache Groovy programming language—a multi-faceted language for the Java platform that aims to improve ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Rami Shalom, JD Velasquez and Mary Koes, Product ManagersIn advance of the new simplified Stackdriver pricing that will go into effect on June 30, we want to make sure everyone gets a chance to try Stackdriver. That’s why we’ve decided to offer the full power of Stackdriver, including premium monitoring, logging and application performance management (APM), to all customers—new and existing—for free until the new pricing goes into effect. This offer will be available starting June 18. Stackdriver, our full-stack logging and monitoring tool, collects logs and metrics, as well as ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Details: Since launching Amazon CloudFront in November 2008, we’ve been continuously expanding our infrastructure footprint around the world to improve availability and performance for content delivery. Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of two new Edge locations: one in Johannesburg, South Africa, and one in Bangalore, India. The Edge location in Johannesburg is Amazon CloudFront’s first PoP on the African continent. The addition of these two locations brings CloudFront’s global network to 119 points of presence in 58 cities, across 26 countries. Amazon CloudFront’s expansion into South Africa further improves availability and performance of content delivery to ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. The blockchain is disrupting various areas of society and it is poised to provide solutions to challenges that we face today. From maintaining health records to real estate, the technology is making a social impact. International brands already investing in this technology, including IBM and Walmart. But these huge companies aren’t the only ones that recognize the technology’s potential. Some startups are embracing it to disrupt all sectors that deal with various data and transactions. The technology isn’t new. It’s been introduced in 2008. Today, however, blockchain ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog. Author: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog Team. Innovation in data processing and machine learning technology Introducing Cloud Dataflow’s new Streaming Engine Thursday, June 14, 2018 By Sergei Sokolenko, Cloud Dataflow Product Manager Many of our customers benefit from the design principle of separating compute from state storage used by Google in several Big Data services such as BigQuery and, most recently, in batch Cloud Dataflow pipelines using the Dataflow Shuffle. Today, we are launching Cloud Dataflow Streaming Engine in beta, to apply the same principle to streaming pipelines ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Companies are moving analytics to the cloud at an aggressive rate. And, why wouldn’t they? With the pace and format of data volumes constantly growing—and the proliferation of both open source and proprietary tools deployable in the cloud for just pennies or dollars per hour—the cloud is a great place to analyze data.A recent study showed that more than 50 percent of organizations surveyed have already moved some operational data to the cloud. That makes a lot of sense, especially as that type of data is increasingly merged with Internet of Things (IoT), social media, and web ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Jez Humble, Barry O'Reilly, Joanne Molesky. Chadburns Ships Engine Order Telegraph (source: Steven Depolo on Flickr) This is Chapter 5 from "Lean Enterprise." Read the full book on O'Reilly's learning platform. Evaluate the Product/Market Fit The Edge…there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over it. Hunter S. Thompson In this chapter, we will discuss how to identify when a product/market fit has been achieved and how to exit the explore stage and start exploiting our product with ... Read More