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What Google’s New Cloud Security Authorizations Mean for Its Government Customers

Google achieved two new public-sector authorizations that insiders say will prove instrumental in their work helping the government modernize its information technology, security and compliance. On the heels of a long and complex engineering effort, the Google Workspace product reached FedRAMP High authorization, officials announced Wednesday, and the tech giant also earned an Impact Level 4, or IL4, designation from the Defense Information Systems Agency. “Our approach has been different… Source link

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Intel teams with Google Cloud to develop new class of data center chip

A Google Cloud logo outside the Google Cloud computing unit’s headquarters at the Moffett Place office complex in Sunnyvale, California, U.S., June 19, 2019. REUTERS/Paresh Dave/File Photo Oct 27 (Reuters) – Intel Corp (INTC.O) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud on Wednesday said they have worked together to create a new category of chip that Intel hopes will become a major seller in the booming cloud computing market. The new chip, which is called Mount Evans and will be sold to… Source link

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Trump got de-platformed. Could the ‘decentralized crypto cloud’ save him?

The blank check company that announced a planned merger to take former President Trump’s social media project public has seen shares give back about half of their impressive 1200% rally from last week. Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC) at Tuesday’s close were down by about 57% from Friday’s peak as investors weighed potential risks that exist beyond believing the company will be able to deliver on building out Trump’s social media platform as promised. Beyond that, there’s the… Source link

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Microsoft smashes earnings expectations with strong cloud performance

Microsoft (MSFT) reported its fiscal Q1 2022 earnings after the closing bell on Tuesday, easily beating analysts’ expectations on the top and bottom line, with cloud revenue up 36% year-over-year. The stock was flat on the news. Here are the most important numbers from the report compared with what analysts were expecting, as compiled by Bloomberg. Revenue: $45.3 billion versus $43.93 billion expected Earnings per share: $2.71 versus $2.07 expected Intelligent Cloud: $16.98 versus $16.58 billion… Source link

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Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google Shows Cloud Computing Growth

The fast-food restaurant of the future may be able to detect your order in advance, cook it just the way you like it, and have it ready when you arrive (or bring it to your house). That’s if partnerships like the one between The Wendy’s Company (WEN) and Alphabet Inc.’s (GOOGL, GOOG) Google Cloud deliver on a data-based future aided by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). As reported in The Wall Street Journal, on Oct. 12, 2021, Wendy’s and Google announced a deal that… Source link

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Google bets on the cloud breaking up

Google’s giant data centres are temples of the information age. Built for consumer services that reach billions of people, they also serve as a platform for the search company’s push into cloud computing — a market that could one day be even larger than its advertising business. This week, however, Google tried a different tack. In its latest bid to catch up with Amazon and Microsoft in cloud computing, it took a step beyond its own data centres. In the process, it shone a… Source link

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Google Cloud unveils carbon footprint tracker, satellite imagery suite

The Google logo is pictured at the entrance to the Google offices in London, Britain January 18, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay Oct 12 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google will tell its cloud customers the carbon emissions of their cloud usage and open satellite imagery to them for the first time for environmental analysis, as part of a push to help companies track and cut carbon budgets. The new features were among announcements Google Cloud made Tuesday to kick off its annual customer… Source link

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Google goes all in on hybrid cloud with new portfolio of edge and managed on-prem solutions – TechCrunch

Today at Google Cloud Next, the company’s annual customer conference, Google announced a broad portfolio of hybrid cloud services designed to deliver computing at the edge of Google’s network of data centers, in a partner facility or in a customer’s private data center — all managed by Anthos, the company’s cloud native management console. There’s a lot to unpack here, but Sachin Gupta, Google’s GM and VP of Product for IaaS, says the strategy behind… Source link

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Google Cloud launches a managed Spark service – TechCrunch

At its Cloud Next event, Google today announced the launch of Spark on Google Cloud as a fully managed service. With this, the popular open-source data processing engine will become a premium offering on Google Cloud. “With this innovation, Spark finally arrives in the cloud-native world,” said Gerrit Kazmaier, Google’s VP & GM for Database, Data Analytics & Looker. “It allows data engineers and data scientists to work with Spark without worrying about cluster end… Source link

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Reddit hires former Google Cloud exec as its first chief product officer – TechCrunch

Reddit announced today that it has hired Pali Bhat, the former vice-president of product and design at Google Cloud, as the company’s first Chief Product Officer. Bhat will be tasked with overseeing Reddit’s product organization and leading the development of tools and features for the platform. In his new role, Bhat will report directly to Reddit CEO Steve Huffman. Bhat will lead and facilitate the creation of tools and features focused on bringing… Source link

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