Google Cloud

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….

Google announces a new Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory that should give customers more options about which cloud service fits their needs.

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…

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…

Amazon announced a couple of weeks ago that AWS DataSync now supports moving data between AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. This release expands the number of supported storage locations from 10 to 12, which is significant as it now includes two of the major cloud providers. For those unfamiliar, AWS DataSync is Amazon’s enterprise-grade…

This week in IT, all Linux distributions are affected by a serious security flaw, called Dirty Pipe, that can completely destroy systems. Google buys cybersecurity specialist Mandiant, swiping it from underneath Microsoft’s nose. Apple unveils its new all-powerful M1 Ultra chip. And Microsoft makes it easier for startups to participate in its Founders Hub program….