Google Cloud unveils AI-optimised infrastructure enhancements

Google Cloud has announced significant advancements in its AI-optimised infrastructure, including fifth-generation TPUs and A3 VMs based on NVIDIA H100 GPUs. Traditional approaches to designing and constructing computing systems are proving inadequate for the surging demands of workloads like generative AI and large language models (LLMs). Over the last five years, the parameters in LLMs… … Read more

MongoDB makes end-to-end data encryption technology available

MongoDB has announced the general availability of MongoDB Queryable Encryption, a first-of-its-kind technology that helps organisations protect sensitive data when it is queried and in-use on MongoDB. MongoDB Queryable Encryption is said to significantly reduce the risk of data exposure for organisations and improves developer productivity by providing built-in encryption capabilities for highly sensitive application… … Read more

EDB reveals three new ways to run Postgres on Google Kubernetes Engine

EnterpriseDB (EDB), a specialist in accelerating Postgres in the enterprise, today announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud, making EDB’s key Postgres offerings available on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Fully-managed database-as-a-service EDB BigAnimal on GKE Standard and EDB Community 360 PostgreSQL on GKE Autopilot and GKE Standard are now available on Google Cloud. EDB is… … Read more

Oracle offers OCI compute services anywhere with Compute Cloud@Customer

Oracle has unveiled Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer, a rack-scale cloud infrastructure that enables organisations to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) compute services anywhere. With Compute Cloud@Customer, customers can develop, deploy, secure, and manage workloads using the same software stack as OCI in deployments as small as a single rack. Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer enables organisisations to run applications and middleware… … Read more

Sweet Security lands $12 million in seed funding to enhance cloud security

Sweet Security today announced $12 million in seed funding and the launch of its Cloud Runtime Security Suite. The round was led by Glilot Capital Partners with participation from CyberArk Ventures and angel investors including Gerhard Eschelbeck, former CISO at Google and Travis McPeak, who led product security at Databricks. Sweet was founded by retired Brigadier General, Dror Kashti,… … Read more

AWS and Twilio deepen relationship to power customer engagement

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Twilio, a customer engagement platform, have extended their longstanding strategic work together that will place powerful artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities at the fingertips of Twilio customers. This news follows the recent announcement of Twilio CustomerAI. With its CustomerAI technology layer, Twilio powerfully combines customer engagement platform data, generative and predictive… … Read more

£100m John Lewis and Google Cloud partnership accelerates tech transformation

The John Lewis Partnership, the UK’s largest employee-owned company, has formed a strategic partnership with Google Cloud, worth £100m over the next five years. The move represents a major expansion of the successful relationship it has had with Google since 2012. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in the John Lewis Partnership’s digital transformation… … Read more

Ermetic releases CNAPPgoat open source project for assessing multi cloud security

Ermetic, a cloud infrastructure security company, has launched CNAPPgoat, an open source project that allows organisations to safely test their cloud security skills, processes, tools and posture in interactive sandbox environments that are easy to deploy and destroy. CNAPPgoat supports AWS, Azure and GCP platforms for assessing the security capabilities included in Cloud Native Application… … Read more

Tata Communications IZO Multi Cloud Connect reimagines connectivity

Tata Communications, a global digital ecosystem enabler, has unveiled new features in its IZO Multi Cloud Connect solution to integrate multiple clouds instantly, seamlessly and with flexibility. It is empowering enterprises with speed and intelligence by enabling next-gen digital businesses to get ready with an end-to-end, on-demand, real-time, reliable, and scalable multi cloud connectivity. These… … Read more