Cloud Computing

The overwhelmed person’s guide to Google Cloud: week of September 12

The content in this blog post was originally published last week as a members-only email to the Google Cloud Innovators community. To get this content directly in your inbox (not to mention lots of other benefits), sign up to be an Innovator today. New and shiny Three new things to know this week Cloud Run […]

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An Offer You Can Refuse: UNC2970 Backdoor Deployment Using Trojanized PDF Reader

Written by: Marco Galli, Diana Ion, Yash Gupta, Adrian Hernandez, Ana Martinez Gomez, Jon Daniels, Christopher Gardner Introduction In June 2024, Mandiant Managed Defense identified a cyber espionage group suspected to have a North Korea nexus, tracked by Mandiant under UNC2970. Later that month, Mandiant discovered additional phishing lures masquerading as an energy company and

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50Hertz helps businesses reduce their carbon emissions with Vertex AI

The energy industry is facing huge, exciting challenges. The transition from fossil fuels to a sustainable energy supply using renewable energies continues to be a complex process, and it won’t just happen by itself. With more than a third of the world’s electricity predicted to come from renewables by 2025, the ongoing shift to sustainability

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Looking under the hood at the tech stack that powers multimodal AI

Ryan chats with Russ d’Sa, cofounder and CEO of LiveKit, about multimodal AI and the technology that makes it possible. They talk through the tech stack required, including the use of WebRTC and UDP protocols for real-time audio and video streaming. They also explore the big challenges involved in ensuring privacy and security in streaming

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Cloud CISO Perspectives: The high value of cross-industry communication

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2024. Today I’m taking a look at how our initiatives to drive cybersecurity collaboration across industries, regulators and governments, IT consortia, and researchers and universities can help make everyone safer online. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the

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Chat with your business data – Conversational Analytics comes to Gemini in Looker

Generative AI has invigorated the promise of self-service analytics, which, when combined with enterprise-scale security and governance, and backed by trusted metrics, can prevent data chaos and empower you to quickly understand and act on your data insights. Looker is playing a key role in this data revolution, evolving business intelligence (BI) for the AI

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Chat with your business data – Conversational Analytics comes to Gemini in Looker

Generative AI has invigorated the promise of self-service analytics, which, when combined with enterprise-scale security and governance, and backed by trusted metrics, can prevent data chaos and empower you to quickly understand and act on your data insights. Looker is playing a key role in this data revolution, evolving business intelligence (BI) for the AI

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Accelerate Ray in production with new Ray Operator on GKE

The AI field is constantly evolving. With recent advancements in generative AI in particular, models are larger and more complex, pushing organizations to distribute tasks efficiently across more machines. One powerful approach is to run ray.io, an open-source framework for distributed AI/ML workloads, on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), our managed container orchestration service. To make

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From keywords to relationships: Reveal deeper insights with full-text search and Spanner Graph

In today’s data-driven landscape, organizations grapple with the challenge of extracting valuable insights from rapidly expanding volumes of information. Graph databases excel at modeling complex relationships, while full-text search efficiently retrieves pertinent information from unstructured data. However, maintaining separate systems for these capabilities can lead to operational overhead and delayed insights. Spanner Graph offers a

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Want to save on GKE block storage costs? Hyperdisk Storage Pools can help

Whether you are administering traditional VMs, GKE clusters, or a combination of the two, it’s important to automate as many of your operational tasks as possible in the most cost-effective manner, and where possible, get rid of them altogether! Hyperdisk is a next-generation network attached block storage service, and Hyperdisk Storage Pools are a pre-purchased

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