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Google Expands Memory Encryption to Kubernetes
Google Cloud and AMD unveiled a “confidential computing” initiative over the summer that maintains data encryption in memory and elsewhere outside of the CPU. The scheme utilized hardware-based encryption ...Full Article
AMD, Google Encrypt Data on Confidential VMs
AMD and Google Cloud are collaborating on a “confidential VM” security effort that uses encrypted virtualization to secure data “in use”. The confidential cloud computing effort is based on ...Full Article
Open 5G Push Seen Attracting Hyperscalers
The technology lines are being drawn in the race to deploy 5G wireless networks that would underpin emerging enterprise applications ranging from the Internet of Things a host of ...Full Article
IT Spending Remains Steady Despite Pandemic
Market forecasters continue to crunch the numbers to determine precisely how the pandemic will shape IT spending during a period of unprecedented uncertainty. Moreover, the need to adapt in ...Full Article
Cloud for Clouds: ClimaCell Leverages Cloud HPC to Deliver Weather Micro-Forecasting
Weather forecasting is a tricky, unforgiving business, and for weather-dependent clients in precise locations, like airlines and sports teams, accuracy is king. Making accurate predictions for a highly specific ...Full Article
Google Cloud Debuts 16-GPU Ampere A100 Instances
On the heels of the Nvidia’s Ampere A100 GPU launch in May, Google Cloud is announcing alpha availability of the A100 “Accelerator Optimized” VM A2 instance family on Google ...Full Article
ISC 2020: Hoefler’s Virtual Tour of ML Trends in 9 Slides
The ISC20 experience this year via livestreaming and pre-recordings is interesting and perhaps a bit odd. That said presenters’ efforts to condense their comments makes for economic use of ...Full Article
VMware Engine Extends Google’s Hybrid Push
Google continues to expand its hybrid cloud partnership with VMware designed to ease migration of enterprise workloads to the cloud while preserving existing infrastructure. Google Cloud this week unveiled ...Full Article
Google Nation: $10B for Office, Data Center Expansion in 11 States
Google disclosed in a blog it will invest $10 billion in office and data center expansion around the U.S. this year, generating thousands of new jobs in the process. ...Full Article
Google Restructures, Seeking Bigger Slice of Enterprise Cloud Pie
Google Cloud’s focus on larger enterprise customers has resulted in a restructuring that will cut jobs in its cloud operations as it seeks to attract more large corporate customers ...Full Article
