Google announced this morning that its $5.4 billion acquisition of cybersecurity provider Mandiant has officially closed. The deal brings the company directly under the Google Cloud umbrella, but it will retain the Mandiant brand. Google first announced its plans to acquire Mandiant back in March 2022. At that time, Microsoft was also in discussions to…
Microsoft has announced some important changes to its restrictive software licensing policies that should reduce the price of running Microsoft software on non-Azure clouds. The new licensing terms, which will go into effect on October 1, 2022, aim to address complaints from rival European cloud providers about Microsoft’s anti-competitive tactics. “We recognize the importance of…
Google has announced that it blocked the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The attack peaked at 46 million requests per second (rps), which is 76 percent larger than the previous DDoS attack that targeted Cloudflare in June. The company explained in its blog post that the HTTPS DDoS attack began targeting one of its Google…
Google has announced that it’s building three new cloud regions in Malaysia, Thailand, and New Zealand. The launch of these new Google Cloud sites is a part of a wider move to expand its presence in Asia-Pacific, which will bring the total number of regions to 37 worldwide. Google Cloud’s Asia-Pacific Vice President Karan Bajwa…
Google Cloud today announced Tau T2A, its first virtual machines (VMs) based on the Arm architecture. The company has also unveiled a fully-managed job scheduling service dubbed Google Cloud Batch. In a press release, Google explained that the latest Tau T2A virtual machines are powered by Ampere Altra Arm-based processors. The VMs comes in various…
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Google is creating a new division that will focus on helping US public sector organizations to accelerate the adoption of Google Cloud technologies. The company says that Google Public Sector caters to the growing needs of federal, state, and local governments, as well as educational institutions. This new Google Public Sector division specifically aims to…
Microsoft is planning to make some changes to the way it licenses its products to customers who wish to use them on rival cloud platforms. According to a new report from Bloomberg, several customers have filed complaints against Microsoft’s policies regarding running Windows and Office on other cloud-computing services such as Google Cloud Platform or…
Microsoft has announced this morning some improvements for its Defender for Cloud suite. The company says that the Microsoft Defender for Cloud service will now provide native support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments, and this capability is currently available in public preview for all enterprise customers. Microsoft Defender for Cloud (formerly known as Azure…
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