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(Credit: Google) In a bit of irony, Google is launching a VPN service to protect users’ privacy.  The VPN will be a free perk to the $9.99-a-month 2TB plan on Google One, the company’s cloud storage service. Soon, the Google One app for Android will display a new function that can activate a VPN over the user’s smartphone.  The company is offering the VPN as a safeguard to prevent hackers from snooping on users’ unencrypted web traffic if their phone is ever connected to a public… Source link

At Google Cloud Next 2020 virtual event, Google announced BigQuery Omni, a multi-cloud extension of BigQuery that can run in AWS and Azure.  Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud Google BigQuery is a managed, serverless data warehouse available on Google Cloud. After App Engine, BigQuery was one of the first managed cloud services from Google. Launched in 2010, BigQuery is the most popular cloud data warehouse platform in the public cloud. It is one of the… Source link

In a recent blog post, Google announced the introduction of the Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) family on Google Compute Engine, based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPU. A2 provides up to 16 GPUs in a single VM and is the first A100-based offering in the public cloud. Google designed the A2-family of VMs to boost training and inference computing performance for its customers. The A2 features the NVIDIA A-100 Tensor Core graphics processing unit based up the newly NVIDIA… Source link

Microsoft’s Azure operating system, codenamed “Red Dog,” was designed by a team of Microsoft OS experts including Dave Cutler, the father of VMS and Windows NT starting in latter half of the 2000s. Azure launched in February 2010 and has become the foundation of the “new” Microsoft over the past decade. In 2008, I had a chance to interview the Azure founding-team members. This month,… Source link