Managing and auditing data access can be very complex at scale, in particular, for a fleet of databases with a myriad of users. Today, we’re launching Identity and Access Management (IAM) group authentication in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and Cloud  SQL for MySQL, simplifying user management and database authentication. Now, developers, database administrators, and security […]

Editor’s Note: Maxxton — a combined central reservation and property management system property management system services provider for the hospitality industry — is in the process of modernizing its legacy software to cope with the massive amount of data it needs to ingest and analyze every day. By migrating to Bare Metal Solution for Oracle […]

Developers and business users often need to access specialized applications and tools to help them work faster, more productively, and more resourcefully. At the same time, cloud administrators and IT, finance (FinOps), and procurement managers need to maintain governance and control over the software and technologies in use to mitigate “shadow IT”. This includes ensuring […]

Written by: Josh Murchie, Ashley Pearson,  Joseph Pisano,  Jake Nicastro,  Joshua Shilko, Raymond Leong   Overview In mid-2022, Mandiant’s Managed Defense detected multiple intrusions involving QAKBOT, leading to the deployment of BEACON coupled with other pre-ransomware indicators. This marked Mandiant’s initial identification of UNC4393, the primary user of BASTA ransomware. Mandiant has responded to over […]

With Vertex AI Model Garden, Google Cloud strives to deliver highly efficient and cost-optimized ML workflow recipes. Currently, it offers a selection of more than 150 first-party, open and third-party foundation models. Last year, we introduced the popular open source LLM serving stack vLLM on GPUs, in Vertex Model Garden. Since then, we have witnessed […]