Cloud Computing

Google Cloud database news roundup, October 2024 edition

Leaves are falling, temperatures are dropping, but things were heating up in the world of Google Cloud databases this October! Here’s a recap of the latest news and updates. Key databases announcements  Database Center simplifies database management with a single, unified view of our customer’s entire database landscape. This month we launched two exciting features

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Arize, Vertex AI API: Evaluation workflows to accelerate generative app development and AI ROI

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, enterprise AI engineering teams must constantly seek cutting-edge solutions to drive innovation, enhance productivity, and maintain a competitive edge. In leveraging an AI observability and evaluation platform like Arize AI with the advanced capabilities of Google’s suite of AI tools, enterprises looking to push the boundaries of

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Accelerate retail media success with EPAM and Google Cloud

Retail media networks, a type of advertising platform that allows retailers to sell ad space on their digital channels to third-party brands, are nothing new. But they are about to change dramatically in the coming year. Consumers are increasingly privacy-conscious and desire more personalized ad recommendations. EPAM and Google Cloud have been working on retail

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PyTorch/XLA 2.5: vLLM support and an improved developer experience

Machine learning engineers are bullish on PyTorch/XLA, a Python package that uses the XLA deep learning compiler to connect the PyTorch deep learning framework and Cloud TPUs. And now, PyTorch/XLA 2.5 is here, along with a set of improvements to add support for vLLM and enhance the overall developer experience. Featured in this release are:

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Unlocking the power of Spanner: 10 partners to revolutionize your data

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses need a database solution that can keep up with their evolving demands. Spanner is the always-on, globally consistent, and virtually unlimited-scale database, powering a wide array of modern applications across different industries. Spanner powers a number of Google products with billions of users, including Gmail, and has become the

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Cloud CISO Perspectives: 10 ways to make cyber-physical systems more resilient

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2024. Today, Anton Chuvakin, senior security consultant for our Office of the CISO, offers 10 leading indicators to improve cyber-physical systems, guided by our analysis of the White House’s new PCAST report. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to

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C4A VMs now GA: Our first custom Arm-based Axion CPU

At Google Next ‘24, we announced Google Axion Processors, our first custom Arm®-based CPUs designed for the data center. Today, we’re thrilled to announce the general availability of C4A virtual machines, the first Axion-based VM series, with up to 10% better price-performance than the latest generation Arm-based instances available from leading cloud providers. C4A VMs

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Introducing an industry first: application awareness on Cloud Interconnect

Multicloud architectures are becoming commonplace as more business-critical applications are moving to the cloud. Last year, we introduced the Cross-Cloud Network to transform and simplify hybrid and multicloud connectivity, and enable organizations to easily build distributed applications. As organizations modernize their infrastructure, leveraging AI/ML and other managed services, they have adopted Cross-Cloud Network to reduce

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Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google data-center networking evolution

Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither was Google’s network. But 25 years in, we’ve built out network infrastructure with scale and technical sophistication that’s nothing short of remarkable. It’s all the more impressive because in the beginning, Google’s network infrastructure was relatively simple. But as our user base and the demand for our

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