Episode description

Matthew Ulasien brings us the biggest news for Google Cloud Platform this month, with announcements on new languages for Google Cloud Functions and a major acquisition in the disaster recovery and data management space with Actifio joining GCP. We take a closer look at Filestore updates to boost compute engine capabilities, Anthos for Bare Metal going GA, and finally, we’ll announce this month’s Guru of the Month winner!

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Quick jump to the news:Introduction (0:00)
.Net Core 3.1 for Cloud Functions (0:43)
Filestore Bakcups in preview (1:21)
Google wins an award (1:55)
Google Workspace for Government (2:19)
Google to acquire Actifio (2:59)
Anthos for Bare Metal (4:20)
Guru of the Month (5:57)

.Net Core 3.1 comes to Cloud Functions
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/introducing-net-google-cloud-functions

Filestore Backups in preview
https://cloud.google.com/filestore/docs/backups

Leader in IaaS Platform Native Security
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/google-cloud-a-leader-in-iaas-platform-native-security-wave

Google Workspace for Government
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/google-cloud-unveils-new-offerings-its-global-public-sector-summit

Google enters agreement to acquire Actifio
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/google-enters-agreement-to-acquire-actifio

Anthos for Bare Metal now GA
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/anthos-on-bare-metal-is-now-ga

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