Cloud Computing

Introducing Google Cloud Vertex AI Extensions for .NET

In October 2024, Microsoft announced the Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Abstractions and Microsoft.Extensions.AI libraries for .NET. These libraries provide the .NET ecosystem with essential abstractions for integrating AI services into .NET applications from various providers such as Open AI, Azure, Google. Today, we’re happy to announce the Google.Cloud.VertexAI.Extensions library. This is the Vertex AI implementation of Microsoft.Extensions.AI. This library

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BigQuery AI Hackathon: Celebrating Innovation and a Look at What’s New

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Accelerate GKE cluster autoscaling with faster concurrent node pool auto-creation

We’re excited to announce concurrency in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) node pool auto-creation, to significantly reduce provisioning latency and autoscaling performance. Internal benchmarks show up to an 85% improvement in provisioning speed, especially benefiting heterogeneous workloads, multi-tenant clusters, workloads that use multiple ComputeClass priorities, and large AI training workloads, by cutting deployment time and enhancing

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Spanner in 2025: Innovations powering intelligent, multi-model AI applications

For over a decade now, Google has relied on Spanner, an always-on, virtually unlimited database to power global-scale applications like Gmail, YouTube, and Google Photos. Today, Spanner handles over 6 billion queries per second at peak and more than 17 exabytes of data, with five 9s of availability, plus global consistency.  2025 was a big

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No Place Like Home Network: Disrupting the World’s Largest Residential Proxy Network

Introduction  This week Google and partners took action to disrupt what we believe is one of the largest residential proxy networks in the world, the IPIDEA proxy network. IPIDEA’s proxy infrastructure is a little-known component of the digital ecosystem leveraged by a wide array of bad actors. This disruption, led by Google Threat Intelligence Group

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Future Mode Part 1: The intelligent and secure browser for enterprises

Editor’s Note: Our Future Mode series will give businesses insight into how Chrome Enterprise is approaching AI in the browser. Stay tuned for more blogs in this series. For the modern enterprise, the browser has already evolved beyond a simple application and has become the primary workspace where collaboration happens, sensitive data is accessed and

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