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Data Intensive Applications With GKE And MariaDB SkySQL
With Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), customers get a fully managed environment to automatically deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications on Google Cloud. Kubernetes has become a preferred choice for running not only stateless workloads (e.g. Web Services) but also for stateful applications (e.g. databases). According to the Data on Kubernetes report, over 70% of Kubernetes users run …
Achieving Autonomic Security Operations: Why Metrics Matter (But Not How You Think)
What’s the most difficult question a security operations team can face? For some, is it, “Who is trying to attacks us?” Or perhaps, “Which cyberattacks can we detect?” How do teams know when they have enough information to make the “right” decision? Metrics can help inform our responses to those questions and more, but how …
Using Google Kubernetes Engine’s GPU Sharing To Search For Neutrinos
Editor’s note: Today we hear from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and University of Wisconsin-Madison about how GPU sharing in Google Kubernetes Engines is helping them detect neutrinos at the South Pole with the gigaton-scale IceCube Neutrino Observatory. IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a detector at the South Pole designed to search for nearly massless subatomic …
Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud DLP) Overview
Sensitive data can show up in unexpected places—for example, customers might inadvertently send you sensitive data in a customer support chat or file upload. And if you’re using data for analytics and machine learning, it’s imperative that sensitive data be handled appropriately to protect users’ privacy. It’s important to take a holistic look at where …
Google Cloud’s Innovation-First Infrastructure
Organizations are driving the complete transformation of their business by inventing new ways to accomplish their objectives using the cloud; from making core processes more efficient, to improving how they reach and better serve their customers, to achieving insights through data that fuel innovation. Cloud infrastructure belongs at the center of every organization’s transformation strategy. …
AWS Announces General Availability Of AWS Cloud WAN
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of AWS Cloud WAN, a new managed wide area network (WAN) service that connects on-premises data centers, colocation facilities, branch offices, and cloud resources to simplify operating a global network. Using a central management dashboard built into AWS Cloud WAN, …
I/O Adventure Google Cloud Architecture
Since 2020, many conferences have moved online – either fully or partially – as organizers, presenters, and attendees all reimagine how we approach our life and our work. Google I/O Adventure is a virtual conference experience that brings some of the best parts of real-world events into the digital world. Inside I/O Adventure, event attendees …
What GKE Users Need To Know About Kubernetes’ New Service Account Tokens
When you deploy an application on Kubernetes, it runs as a service account — a system user understood by the Kubernetes control plane. The service account is the basic tool for configuring what an application is allowed to do, analogous to the concept of an operating system user on a single machine. Within a Kubernetes …
Announcing General Availability Of Cloud Armor’s New Edge Security Policies, And Support For Proxy Load Balancers
Whether workloads are deployed in public clouds, on-premises, or other infrastructure providers, DDoS and Layer 7 attacks target all web applications, APIs, and services. That’s why Google Cloud continues to expand our scope of DDoS and web application firewall (WAF) protection for web applications, APIs, and services with Google Cloud Armor, so customers can defend internet-facing …
Alibaba Cloud Launches Carbon Management Solution – Energy Expert
Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has announced the global launch of Energy Expert, a sustainability platform to help customers worldwide measure, analyze and manage the carbon emissions of their business activities and products. The software-as-a-service offerings also provides actionable insights and energy saving recommendations to help customers accelerate their …