Google has officially lodged an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft. The company alleged that Microsoft’s software licensing practices are anti-competitive and effectively force customers to remain loyal to its Azure cloud services. In 2019, Microsoft introduced software licensing changes that increased the costs for customers running Windows, Windows Server, and Office on...
Last Update: May 12, 2023
Google has announced major updates for its Google Workspace suite of apps at the annual I/O conference. Dubbed Duet AI for Google Workspace, the new generative AI tools are coming to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides apps. “Duet AI already works behind the scenes in Workspace to help you write — whether it’s refining existing…
Google announced the launch of its new A3 supercomputer virtual machines at Google I/O 2023. The company explained that the new offerings are designed to cater to the needs of the resource-intensive Large Language Models (LLMs). Google explained that its A3 supercomputer virtual machines (VMs) are powered by Nvidia’s H100 GPUs built on the Hopper…
Google kicked off its annual I/O developer conference yesterday by showing it was very serious about catching up to competitors in the AI space. Duet AI is the new name of Google’s generative AI efforts, and the company detailed yesterday what to expect from Duet AI in Google Workspace, as well as Duet AI for…
Google has announced plans to bring its physical cloud infrastructure to more customers worldwide. Indeed, the company is opening Google Cloud regions in five new countries, including Austria, Greece, Norway, South Africa, and Sweden. Back in August, Google unveiled that it’s adding new cloud regions in New Zealand, Malaysia, Thailand, and Mexico. This latest announcement…
Google Cloud has announced several new security tools, products, and services to help organizations better protect their cloud environments. The company is introducing a new fully managed software supply chain security product dubbed Software Delivery Shield (SDS). The Software Delivery Shield solution is designed to help developers, DevOps, and security teams protect their cloud applications….
Last Update: Sep 21, 2022
Instead of performing your backup with your centralized on-premises IT infrastructure, BaaS connects your protected systems to a public cloud managed by the cloud provider or MSP.
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…