Topic: google
Google Cloud launches new virtual machine family Tau VMs
Google Cloud announced a new virtual machine family, Tau VMs, that delivers price-performance for scale-out workloads. The first instance type in the Tau VM family, T2D, is based on Gen AMD EPYC processors and it enables the VMs to scale out workloads of any public cloud provider available today. According to Google, Tau VMs offer … continue reading
Google’s VM Manager gets new OS configuration management
Google is previewing new OS configuration management inside its VM Manager solution. VM Manager is a collection of infrastructure management tools designed to ease and automate the maintenance of large Compute Engine VM fleets. The company first introduced the solution at the beginning of this year. “OS configuration management is an important way that administrators … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Google Cloud Armor, Moogsoft updates, and AWS Incident Manager
Google Cloud has announced the general availability of Cloud Armor. Cloud Armor is a DDoS protection and Web-Application Firewall (WAF) service for Google Cloud. It absorbs network- and protocol-based attacks and mitigates OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. Cloud Armor Managed Protection Plus is a managed service that bundles DDoS protection, WAF capabilities, Adaptive Protection, efficient pricing, … continue reading
Anthos 1.7 comes with features to help anchor cloud journeys
Google has released the latest version of its managed application platform Anthos. Anthos 1.7 focuses on anchoring customers’ cloud journeys, creating a consistent operator experience, and establishing a familiar deployment target for developers. The company believes that cloud journeys should be anchored to a single cloud because rather than bringing their current state to a … continue reading
GKE Autopilot takes managed Kubernetes to new heights
Google is adding new ways to work with its Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with a new operations solution for managed Kubernetes. GKE Autopilot manages infrastructure so teams can focus on their software. “Until now, Kubernetes still involved a fair bit of manual assembly and tinkering to optimize it for your needs,” Drew Bradstock, group product … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cloud Operations Sandbox
Google is trying to bring Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to its customers, and to that end it has released a new open-source project called the Cloud Operations Sandbox. “Customers want to learn how to instrument services for observability and implement SRE best practices using tools Google Cloud has to offer, but without risking production environments,” … continue reading
Google donates $3 million in cloud credits to CNCF to support Kubernetes
Google Cloud is continuing to help fund the Kubernetes project, which it initially created, by donating $3 million in cloud computing credits to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the organization that currently maintains the project. This grant is a continuation of the company’s behavior since 2018, when it started its commitment of investing $3 … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Ansible Automation Platform 1.2, new Tardigrade integrations, and Google launches Voucher
Red Hat has announced the release of Ansible Automation Platform 1.2. The latest release focused on improving efficiency, increasing productivity, and controlling risk and expenses. New features include a private Automation Hub, enhancements to the automation services catalog, and new Ansible-maintained Certified Content Collections for popular IT platforms. Storj Labs introduces new integrations for Tardigrade … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Google Anthos updates, Fastly acquires Signal Sciences, and Cisco acquires BabbleLabs
Google has made a number of new additions to its Anthos platform for running Kubernetes clusters in cloud and on-premises environments. It added Speech-to-Text On-Prem, which leverages Google’s speech recognition models and provides full control over speech data to comply with data residency requirements It also introduced Anthos attached clusters, which let admins manage Kubernetes … continue reading
Google to protect cloud services with Private Service Connect
Google wants to make sure organizations are secure in the cloud, and is releasing Private Service Connect alpha to achieve that goal. According to the company, as organizations start to take advantage of more cloud services, it can be challenging and complex to manage routing topologies, different networks, different organizations and the information being shared … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Tsunami
Google is open-sourcing its network security scanning engine in the hopes of helping organizations protect data. Tsunami is designed to detect high severity vulnerabilities with high confidence. “When an attacker begins to exploit security vulnerabilities or security misconfigurations, such as weak passwords, an organization needs to react quickly in order to protect potentially vulnerable assets. … continue reading
Zigbee Alliance on-course for IP-based smart home standard this year
The Zigbee Alliance is racking up partnerships and support for its efforts to create a new, royalty-free connectivity standard to increase compatibility among smart home products and to make them more secure. The project, called Connected Home over IP (Project CHIP) , was announced in December 2019 when the Zigbee Alliance announced partnerships with Amazon, … continue reading
