UK telco regulator announces probe into the cloud services market
Ofcom, the UK's national telecom regulator, announced a probe into the competition in the cloud services market, a segment dominated by hyperscalers like AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
Ofcom announced that it would investigate additional digital marketplaces within the next year, coverin... Read more
Google Anthos now allows VMs to run alongside containers
Google Anthos now allows virtual machines (VMs) to run alongside containers. The update allows users to deliver consistent VM and container services on a single, unified public cloud-connected platform.
Kubernetes-based declarative configuration and policies allow VMs to run alongside containers... Read more
Google launches cloud database innovations
Google Cloud launched updates for its cloud-based database environments, including a free trial for Cloud Spanner and a new DataStream for BigQuery service.
The tech giant designed the updates for cloud-based databases that, according to Google, have reached a 'tipping point'. The oganization cl... Read more
Google Cloud finalizes Mandiant acquisition
Google Cloud's acquisition of Mandiant has been completed. The security and software company will continue to operate under its own name. Google Cloud plans to integrate some of Mandiant's technology into its security solutions.
The newly completed acquisition was announced in March of this year... Read more
Google Cloud offers new storage options for heavy workloads
Google Cloud introduced six new storage solutions. The services should speed up the migration of data-intensive workloads to the cloud.
Companies are collecting more data than ever before. Sources are diversifying. The data needs to be housed in a central location and normalized analytics.
St... Read more
Google Cloud launches VMTD to combat crypto mining
Google's Virtual Machine Threat Detection (VMTD) is now generally available. The service allows customers to detect crypto mining activity in their Google Cloud environments.
VMTD was released as a public preview six months ago. The service is now generally available to all Google Cloud users. N... Read more
Google claims it blocked the largest DDoS attack ever
Google claims to have blocked the largest DDoS attack ever. During the attack, the number of HTTPS requests peaked at 46 million per second. The Meris botnet was likely behind the attack.
According to Google, this was the largest Layer 7 DDoS attack ever. The attack was aimed at disrupting the I... Read more
Google Cloud discontinues IoT Core
Google Cloud is pulling the plug on its IoT Core service in mid-August 2023. Customers have one year to switch to an alternative.
Recently, Google Cloud announced that it will stop using IoT Core as of August 16, 2023. At the same time, customers of this service received an email with the announ... Read more
CyberRes integrates Voltage SecureData into Google BigQuery
CyberRes and Google Cloud integrated Voltage SecureData into Google BigQuery. Joint customers can deploy Voltage SecureData to increase data privacy and security in BigQuery.
CyberRes is the security portfolio of Micro Focus, a UK-based IT services and software provider. Among the portfolio is ... Read more
Google announces MITRE ATT&CK mappings for cloud security
New pre-built queries will make it easier for companies to manage their cloud security.
Google Cloud announced an extension of its partnership with security company MITRE to further its efforts in making cloud security easier to deploy for every organization.
The Cloud Analytics project is a ... Read more