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Twistlock Announce General Availability of Container Security Suite
Twistlock have announced the general availability of their Container Security Suite, along with a partnership with Google Cloud Platform that integrates Twistlock into Google Container Engine (GKE). The suite consists of a console to define policy, a registry scanner and a ‘Defender’that runs as a privileged container on each host.
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Google's Cloud Dataflow Enters General Availability
On August 12, Google announced that its big data processing service has reached general availability. This managed service allows customers to build pipelines that manipulate data prior to being processed by big data solutions. Cloud Dataflow supports both streaming and batch programming in a unified model.
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Google Release 'Preemptible' VMs with Fixed Pricing in Beta
Google have released Google Compute Engine ‘preemptible’ virtual machines in beta, which are the same as normal instances with the exception that they are limited to a maximum 24 hour runtime, and may be shut down at any time. Preemptible VMs are offered at a fixed price, which is discounted up to 70% off the prices of normal instances.
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Google Enhances Data and Network Services for its Cloud Platform
Google announced the general availability of Cloud DNS, expanded locations for load balancing, additional carrier providers for peering, beta availability of Cloud Dataflow and VPN services
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Google Cloud Launcher Debuts with a Catalog of 120 OSS VM Images
Google has partnered with Bitnami to launch a repository of open source software images on its cloud. Dubbed as Google Cloud Launcher, the service brings one-click deployment capability to developers.
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Google Cloud Platform Gets Integrated Log Management
Google has added a service that makes it easy to ingest, view, search and analyze logs generated by Compute Engine and App Engine.
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Google Leverages Near Real-Time Backend Development With Firebase
From Google Cloud Platform’s team, Mandy Waite presented at QCon London 2015 Firebase, a solution to help teams being focused on building (near) real-time mobile and web applications without dealing with the complexity of backend services.
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Google Introduces Cloud Storage Nearline Service
Google expanded its cloud portfolio to add a cheaper cloud-based backup service called Cloud Storage Nearline.
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Gain insight into the performance of your apps with Google Cloud Monitoring
Google Cloud Monitoring is now available for free whilst in beta to all Google Cloud Platform customers. The service provides dashboards and alerts for cloud-powered applications, giving developers and operations staff insight and metrics to their services.
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RightScale State of the Cloud Survey Indicates Increased IaaS Adoption
Recently published results from RightScale’s 2015 State of the Cloud survey indicate higher adoption of IaaS than PaaS. In a blog post, the company highlighted the usage patterns of Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform among enterprises.
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Google Adds Private Docker Registry to Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform now has its own private registry to host Docker images. This enables DevOps teams to securely store and retrieve Docker images.