APIs provide direct access to application functionality and data, making them a powerful developer tool. Unfortunately, that also makes them a favorite target for threat actors. Proactively identifying API security threats is top of mind for 60% of IT leaders according to Google Cloud’s 2022 API Security Research Report. Most of the current approaches to […]

Windows Server 2012 reached End of Support (“EOS”) on October 10, 2023. This means that Microsoft will no longer provide security updates, patches, or technical support for this operating system version. For those of you purchasing Extended Security Updates (ESUs) from Microsoft to continue to receive critical security updates, you can applythem to your VMs […]

At Google, we have a long history of solving problems at scale using Ethernet, and rethinking the transport layer to satisfy demanding workloads that require high burst bandwidth, high message rates, and low latency. Workloads such as storage have needed some of these attributes for a long time, however, with newer use cases such as […]

Editor’s note:Today, we hear from Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Google VP and Technical Fellow and Amin Vahdat, VP/GM. Partha delivered a keynote address today at the OCP Global Summit, an annual conference for leaders, researchers, and pioneers in the open hardware industry. Partha served on the OCP Board of Directors from 2020 to earlier this year, when […]

As an interdisciplinary research center, Stanford’s Center for Population Health Sciences (PHS) aims to improve the health of populations by bringing together researchers and data to understand and address social, environmental, behavioral, and biological factors on both a domestic and global scale. This entails making large-scale biomedical datasets available for research and analysis while keeping […]

Managing high risk data, whether Protected Health Information or social security numbers, is difficult for academic researchers across many domains. Each institution has its own guidelines to safeguard different kinds of datasets, and governmental agencies and funding organizations have their own regulations and compliance requirements. To address these challenges, Stanford Research Computing Center (SRCC) teamed […]

Today, we are excited to announce general availability of the C3D machine series powered by 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ Processors (code-named Genoa) to Google Compute Engine (GCE) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) customers. The C3D machine series is a general-purpose VM that offers the enterprise-grade performance and reliability of AMD Genoa. Based on our testing […]

With businesses increasingly relying on cloud-based applications and distributed workforces, data loss prevention (DLP) is fundamental in any organization’s secure enterprise browsing journey. According to IBM’s latest annual Cost of Data Breach report, the global average cost of a data breach in 2023 has surged to USD 4.45 million, marking a 15% increase over the […]