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Google Releases Monitoring Query Language for Cloud Monitoring into General Availability
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability of Monitoring Query Language (MQL) in Cloud Monitoring.
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Deploy Salesforce on Major Public Clouds with Hyperforce
In a recent press release, Salesforce announced Hyperforce, a new capability allowing customers to deploy Salesforce on major public cloud platforms Azure, AWS, Google, and Alibaba. With Hyperforce, the company redesigned the Salesforce architecture to provide a more scalable platform for its global customer base.
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Google Announces General Availability of Anthos on Bare Metal
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability (GA) of Anthos on bare metal, a deployment option to run Anthos on physical servers, deployed on an operating system provided by the customer, without a hypervisor layer. With Anthos on bare metal, customers can leverage their existing hardware, OS, and networking infrastructure investments.
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Google Launches Healthcare Natural Language API and AutoML Entity Extraction for Healthcare
In a recent blog post, Google announced the public preview of two new fully-managed AI tools: Healthcare Natural Language API and AutoML Entity Extraction for Healthcare. Both tools can assist healthcare professionals in reviewing and analyzing medical documents in a repeatable, scalable way.
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Google Launches a New Serverless Database Migration Service
Recently, Google announced a new serverless Database Migrates Service (DMS) in preview. The service supports migrations of self-hosted MySQL databases, either on-premises or in the cloud, and managed databases from other clouds, to Cloud SQL for MySQL.
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Google Announces Eventarc in Preview
In a recent blog post, Google announced Eventarc, a new events functionality that allows customers to trigger Cloud Run from more than 60 Google Cloud sources. With Eventarc, customers can build event-driven applications and take care of event ingestion, delivery, security, authorization, observability, and error handling.
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Google Introduces a New Version of Its Cloud Shell Editor
Google provides customers with Cloud Shell - a command-line editor in a browser to access their cloud resources directly. In a recent blog post, Google introduced a new version of its Cloud Shell Editor, which is available as a preview.
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Google Announces New Features Making It Easier to Manage Windows Server VMs
Recently Google announced several new features such as boot-screen diagnostics, auto-upgrade for Windows Server, new diagnostics tooling, and improved license reporting. Most of these updates are available in beta and intend to simplify troubleshooting problems, upgrading, and managing the license requirements of Windows workloads running on Google Cloud (GCP).
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Google Expands Its Confidential Computing Portfolio
In a recent blog post, Google announced the expansion of its Confidential Computing Portfolio with the addition of Confidential Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Nodes. Furthermore, the public cloud vendor will make Confidential Virtual Machines (VMs) publically available.
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Google Announces a New, More Services-Based Architecture Called Runner V2 to Dataflow
Google Cloud Dataflow is a fully-managed service for executing Apache Beam pipelines within the Google Cloud Platform(GCP). In a recent blog post, Google announced a new, more services-based architecture called Runner v2 to Dataflow – which will include multi-language support for all of its language SDKs.
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Google Announces General Availability of CPU Overcommit for Sole Tenant Nodes
In a recent blog post, Google announced that CPU overcommit for sole-tenant nodes is generally available. With CPU overcommit for sole-tenant nodes, customers can over-provision their dedicated host virtual CPU resources by up to two times.
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Google Launches Confidential VMs in Beta on Its Cloud Platform
In a recent blog post, Google announced Confidential VMs, a new type of virtual machine that makes use of the company’s work around confidential computing to ensure that data isn’t just encrypted at rest but also while it is in memory.
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Google Launches the First NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs in the Cloud with Computing Engine A2 VMs
In a recent blog post, Google announced the introduction of the Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) family on Google Compute Engine, based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPU. A2 provides up to 16 GPUs in a single VM and is the first A100-based offering in the public cloud.
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Google Announces Its Cloud VMware Engine Is Now Generally Available
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability of its Cloud VMware Engine. With the release, customers can migrate their existing VMware-based applications to Google Cloud without refactoring or rewriting them.
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Google Updates Cloud Spanner with New Features: Backup on Demand, Local Emulator, and More
In a recent blog post, Google announced a slew of new features for Cloud Spanner. The public cloud provider released the service with new updates including the managed backup-restore feature, foreign key support, query optimizer versioning feature, a C++ client library, and a local emulator.