Google Cloud announced this week that it’s shutting down its IoT Core service, giving customers a year to move to a partner to manage their IoT devices. The announcement appeared at the top of the IoT Core web page this week with little fanfare. The company also sent an email to customers announcing the change. It believes that having partners manage the process for customers is a better way to go. “Since launching IoT Core, it has become clear that our… Source link
Read More »Henna Karna on Co-Creation, Security, and What Sets Google Cloud Apart
June’s live Cloud Wars Expo event featured dozens of industry leaders allowing the Acceleration Economy team access to the inner workings of the greatest growth market the world has ever known. In this News Desk interview, Principal Analyst Aaron Back welcomes Henna Karna, Managing Director of Google Cloud’s Global Insurance and Risk Management, for a discussion on the differentiating factors of Google Cloud and how it aims to serve customers with increasing Source link
Read More »Google is letting some people launch cloud games directly from search results
Friction is the mind-killer when it comes to cloud gaming. You can’t just click a game trailer to instantly be playing a game quite yet. But this week, Google appears to be rolling out a feature that could reduce that friction: if you simply search for the name of a game in Google search, you might be presented with a “Play” button that can instantly launch the title. It looks like the Google search engine has a new update for cloud gaming platforms!!! When searching for a game… Source link
Read More »Indonesia’s PayPal, Yahoo bans cast cloud over tech hub dream | Technology
Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia’s temporary ban on major websites including PayPal has exposed the difficult balancing act Jakarta faces as it seeks to both tighten control of the internet and become Southeast Asia’s next tech hub. Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has listed digital infrastructure as a priority under his Making Indonesia 4.0 roadmap aimed at lifting his country into the ranks of the world’s top 10 economies. But even as Widodo has pushed the digital… Source link
Read More »Best cloud gaming services: GeForce Now vs. Amazon Luna vs. Google Stadia and others
Being able to play modern, high-quality video games on just about any kind of PC is the big pitch of the handful of cloud gaming services out there. Using a subscription model, these services allow people with a strong internet connection to tap remote servers in order to play video games of all kinds on even modest computer setups that wouldn’t be able to run them directly. We took the time to try out the biggest players in the cloud gaming space to figure out what works, what to expect,… Source link
Read More »Google Cloud heads to Mexico
The news builds on the announcement made by Google last month in which it made a $1.2 billion commitment to Latin America across digital infrastructure, skills as well as inclusivity and sustainability. “We are very excited about the announcement of a new cloud region in Mexico. It shows the commitment that Google Cloud has with its customers,” said Antonio Guichard Gonzalez, Liverpool’s digital executive director. “In Liverpool, we will continue to work with Google Cloud to find solutions… Source link
Read More »UK heatwave crashed cooling systems for Google and Oracle cloud servers
Google Cloud and Oracle servers located in the UK struggled with cooling-related outages Tuesday as the country experienced record-breaking heat that reached as high as 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius). Both companies blame temperature for the unexpected shutdowns. On its Google Cloud status page, Google notes it has experienced a “cooling related failure” in one of its UK-based data centers. “This caused a partial failure of capacity in that zone, leading to VM [virtual… Source link
Read More »Google Cloud data center in London faces outage on UK’s hottest day
3D printed clouds and figurines are seen in front of the Google Cloud service logo in this illustration taken February 8, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register July 19 (Reuters) – A Google Cloud data center in London faced an outage on Tuesday, according to an update on the Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) unit’s status page, as temperature in the UK soared to a record high. Google Cloud said it was a “cooling related” failure at one of the… Source link
Read More »Google scores a major cloud deal with Northwell Health – STAT
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get this newsletter delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. Shaping the future of brain-computer interfaces How do you live with something implanted in your brain? Can you shower the same as before? What happens to data the device generates? For many people who receive a brain-computer interface, they don’t know the answers to these and other questions… Source link
Read More »Google Cloud launches its first Arm-based VMs – TechCrunch
It’s been a long time coming, but Google Cloud today announced its first Arm-based VMs, following AWS, with its Graviton instances, and Azure, which also recently launched Arm VMs. But while AWS built its own custom chips, Google Cloud is following Azure’s lead here by using chips from Ampere. These new VMs, which are now in preview, will join Google Cloud’s line of Tau VMs under the ‘Tau T2A’ moniker. This line launched almost exactly a year ago, using AMD Milan processors,… Source link
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