Digital Manager Guru, an online sales platform, chose Google Cloud managed databases for reliability and scalability. The company's architecture is built with Google Cloud products and services, allowing it to handle 24 million transactions without downtime. The platform integrates payment processors with various sales and business applications, empowering content creators, subscription services, SaaS providers, and event organizers.

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Google Cloud and NVIDIA have collaborated to introduce two new Confidential Computing offerings to protect the privacy and confidentiality of AI/ML workloads. The offerings include Confidential VMs powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs with HGX protected PCIe and Confidential VMs with Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel AMX) support. These solutions aim to secure sensitive data used in ML training and maintain the privacy of user prompts and AI/ML models during inference and collaboration.

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NATO members and partners are facing a barrage of malicious cyber activity from state-sponsored actors, hacktivists, and criminals. The Alliance must consider the risks that hybrid threats pose to hospitals, civil society, and other targets, which could impact resilience in a contingency. The war in Ukraine is linked to escalating cyber threat activity.

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Google Cloud provides default encryption for customer data at rest, but organizations can gain greater control over their encryption keys with Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK). CMEK requires manual processes, but Cloud KMS Autokey, now in preview, automates key control operations to make configuration more efficient.

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Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) has made recent advancements in its Cluster Autoscaler (CA) feature, enhancing workload performance without requiring additional configuration. These improvements aim to deliver improved performance, reduced latency, and a simpler user experience.

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Generative AI, including Google's Gemini, can help SREs streamline operational tasks and boost efficiency. To get started, a curated list of resources is provided to gain a foundational understanding of generative AI concepts. This includes explanatory videos and hands-on labs to learn the basics and advanced techniques.

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In 2023, Go 1.21 introduced profile-guided optimization (PGO), a feature that allows the Go compiler to use a profile of an application at runtime to make smarter decisions about optimization. Teams at Google and Uber collaborated to build PGO, starting in 2021, and Uber has since rolled out PGO fleet-wide, resulting in a reduction in CPU utilization across many of their services. PGO is available for use in Go applications, including on Google Cloud.

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NeuroPace uses AlloyDB for PostgreSQL to identify effective stimulation patterns for seizure reduction. The company aims to improve upon the conventional trial-and-error approach by searching through large iEEG data for similar brain activity patterns. This requires a scalable and fast processing pipeline to enable physicians to find similar patient profiles quickly.

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Google Cloud introduces the public preview of Pub/Sub topics sharing in Analytics Hub, enabling businesses to share and monetize their real-time streaming data assets across organizations. This feature allows companies to curate, share, and deliver real-time access to their streaming data to internal teams or external customers. For instance, a financial institution can share and monetize its proprietary real-time market data with enterprise customers.

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Google Cloud has introduced an automated Cloud SQL upgrade tool for major versions and Enterprise Plus, supporting MySQL 5.7 to 8.0.31 and PostgreSQL 9.6, 10, and 11 to PostgreSQL 14 and 15. The tool aims to simplify database upgrades, minimizing risks and disruptions, and ensuring security and availability.

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