Centralizing logs provides unified visibility, consolidating logs into a single repository for a comprehensive view of system health and performance. This streamlines operations, reduces costs, and provides a familiar interface for management at scale.

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Developers harnessing the power of large language models (LLMs) face two key hurdles: managing the randomness of their output and addressing the tendency to generate factually incorrect information. This randomness can fuel creativity but can also be a stumbling block when consistency or factual accuracy is crucial.

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Maxxton, a hospitality industry provider, is modernizing its legacy software by migrating to Bare Metal Solution for Oracle on Google Cloud, resulting in 60% better app performance and operational efficiencies. The company offers a complete property management system for the vacation and short-term rental industry.

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Google Cloud is launching IAM group authentication in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and Cloud SQL for MySQL, allowing customers to manage access to Cloud SQL instances and databases using Google Cloud Identity groups. This simplifies user management and database authentication, providing better security controls and efficient user management at scale.

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Google Cloud Private Marketplace aims to mitigate shadow IT by providing a platform for developers and business users to access specialized applications and tools while ensuring governance and control over the software and technologies in use. This is particularly relevant for large enterprises and organizations in highly regulated industries. The platform helps maintain cost, security, and compliance bounds of the organization's procurement and IT security policies.

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UNC4393 is a financially motivated threat cluster that has been tracked since mid-2022, likely active since early 2022. The group primarily uses BASTA ransomware, which is deployed after initial access is gained via UNC2633 and UNC2500 QAKBOT botnet infections. QAKBOT is typically distributed via phishing emails or HTML smuggling.

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Vertex AI and Denodo have collaborated to unlock enterprise data for generative AI and large language models. The challenge lies in consolidating fragmented data sources, ensuring data integrity, and addressing ethical considerations. Techniques like retrieval augmented generation can help bridge the gap between enterprise generative AI apps and actual enterprise data.

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Google Cloud introduces Hex-LLM, a high-efficiency LLM serving framework optimized for Cloud TPUs in Vertex AI Model Garden. Hex-LLM combines state-of-the-art LLM serving technologies and is designed for Google's Cloud TPU hardware. The framework is available as part of AI Hypercomputer.

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Shiseido built a data analysis platform with BrainPad Co., Ltd, led by Yoko Nishio, Platform Development Manager (Data Engineering). The platform features a separated application layer and infrastructure layer, with the latter being independently operated and maintained by Shiseido Interactive Beauty. The system meets high-security regulations, allowing line-of-business units to use the application layer and the entire Shiseido Group to use the infrastructure layer.

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Vertex AI and Denodon have collaborated to unlock enterprise data for generative AI and large language models. The challenge lies in consolidating fragmented data sources, ensuring data integrity, and addressing ethical considerations. Techniques like retrieval augmented generation can help bridge the gap between enterprise generative AI apps and actual enterprise data.

Source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/