Tag: google cloud

June 27, 2024

Open source software needs buy-in across providers and businesses to deliver on its promise of reducing cost, shoring up security and limiting vendor lock-in. Adding the largest hyperscaler to its ranks brings the growing FINOS alliance one step closer to […]

May 31, 2024

As cloud has become a prime mover of enterprise modernization, regulators have scrutinized the business practices of the three largest global providers — AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud. Together, the three hyperscalers control two-thirds of the global cloud infrastructure services […]

May 8, 2024

An Australian pension fund provider has attributed a week-long service outage to “an unprecedented occurrence” related to provisioning by Google Cloud, its cloud service provider (CSP). A disruption in UniSuper services that caused members to lose access to online access […]

April 17, 2024

Security researchers warn that certain commands executed in the AWS and Google Cloud command-line interfaces (CLIs) will return credentials and other secrets stored in environment variables as part of the standard output. If such commands are executed as part of […]

April 9, 2024

Google Cloud is adding capabilities driven by its proprietary large language model, Gemini to its database offerings, which include Bigtable, Spanner, Memorystore for Redis, Firestore, CloudSQL for MySQL, and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, the company announced at its annual Next conference. […]

March 12, 2024

Google’s new Security Command Center Enterprise (SCC Enterprise) could streamline cloud risk management through AI automation, saving security teams time, experts say. Enhanced with Mandiant threat intelligence and generative AI, SCC Enterprise aims to offer comprehensive insights across the cloud […]

February 29, 2024

Google Cloud on Thursday said it is adding vector support and integrating LangChain with all of its database offerings in an effort to outdo rival cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Oracle. Cloud service providers […]

January 12, 2024

In a business dominated by AWS and Microsoft, public cloud consumers and government regulators have bristled at pricing structures that discourage hybrid and multicloud deployments. Google Cloud, the third largest domestic market hyperscaler, would like to see contractual constraints on […]

December 29, 2023

Google Cloud has patched a vulnerability that may have allowed malicious actors with access to a Kubernetes cluster to elevate their privileges and wreak havoc. “An attacker who has compromised the Fluent Bit logging container could combine that access with […]

December 18, 2023

The big cloud service providers are moving into AI – and this has some folks sounding the alarm. The narrative is that when businesses embrace the AI capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, they are handing over even […]

December 5, 2023

In the last two years, Arvest Bank partnered with Google Cloud to kickstart a multiyear digital transformation, launched its first cloud-native payments processing platform and bolstered its tech leadership with three key appointments. The bank recruited Chief Transformation and Operations […]

November 30, 2023

IT consultancy CGI is collaborating with Google Cloud to co-develop a platform for the United Nations that will help countries tackle a range of climate change-related sustainability challenges. The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), which is the UN agency […]

November 16, 2023

Music streaming service Spotify is digging deeper into the portfolio of its long-standing technology partner Google Cloud to explore how its artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning tools can help boost the experience for its 574 million-strong user base. Since […]

November 16, 2023

When it comes to the highest paid US jobs pertaining to IT certifications, two Google Cloud certifications took the top spot in a recent survey, with annual salaries in the $200,000 range. In IT trainer Skillsoft’s 20 top-paying IT certifications, […]

October 25, 2023

The explosive growth in the demand for generative AI has been a big revenue driver for public clouds. However, while some cloud players are reaping the benefits of user demand, Google Cloud seems to be failing to cash in on […]

October 23, 2023

Generative AI tools have rapidly become one of the most vital tools for companies of all sizes and across all industries, but without the right support and investment from those firms driving the innovation, how useful can it really be? […]

October 20, 2023

When making financial decisions, businesses and consumers benefit from access to accurate, timely, and complete information. With the power of real-time data and artificial intelligence (AI), new online tools accelerate, simplify, and enrich insights for better decision-making. For banks, data-driven […]

October 13, 2023

The CEO of direct-to-consumer fitness apparel startup Gymshark has turned to Google Cloud to help standardise the “mish-mash” of IT underpinning its operations, and is drawing on the hyperscaler’s artificial intelligence (AI) expertise to explore how generative AI (GenAI) could […]

October 12, 2023

Google Cloud is stepping up its efforts to court public sector IT buyers with the launch of a dedicated business division geared towards helping government departments and agencies use its tools to provide better-quality public services to UK citizens. The […]

October 11, 2023

Modernization reaches out from IT to touch all parts of the enterprise, optimizing workflows, streamlining processes and enhancing customer and workspace interfaces. My Unilever’s end-user interface was built using Google’s no-code development platform Appsheet, the company said. Accenture assisted the […]