Google Cloud's Sensitive Data Protection (SDP) discovery service now supports Cloud Storage, joining BigQuery, BigLake, and Cloud SQL, to help organizations handle sensitive data securely. This addition enables continuous data monitoring across the most common services used by customers to store data on Google Cloud.

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Cloud Storage's hierarchical naming system can lead to slow and inefficient operations, such as moving a folder, which involves individually copying and deleting objects. This process can fail midway, leaving the bucket in an incomplete state. This can be problematic for data-intensive workloads.

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Google Cloud announced the general availability of the Z3 virtual machine series, a storage-optimized VM family featuring 6M 100% random-read and 6M write IOPs, and dense storage configurations of up to 409 SSD (GiB)-vCPU on next-generation local SSD hardware. Isima, a Silicon Valley startup, was among the first to try it, using the platform for real-time retail and ecommerce data and AI applications.

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Gemini Code Assist, a generative AI, helps developers build great software by creating Open API specifications from natural language requirements within seconds. The Cloud Code plugin integrates with API Hub, allowing users to register specifications directly. The AI assistance understands objects in the organization's API hub to generate tailored specifications based on business requirements.

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Bayer's Global Data Assets team uses AlloyDB to manage geospatial data for the company, supporting hundreds of teams and applications with access to maps, phenotypic observations, satellite imagery, and environmental data. The team created Field Answers, a modern data solution to collect and compute billions of observations across field and greenhouse operations globally. This data is crucial for Bayer's research and development pipelines, including seed selection, production optimization, and marketing.

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Identity and access management (IAM) can be a complex process, especially when configuring it. Two foundational IAM access control principles are least privilege and separation of duties, which are distinct concepts. Least-privilege is the idea that you must assign only the minimum rights necessary for a person to perform their job.

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AlloyDB is a 100% PostgreSQL-compatible database that can run faster, provide AI-assisted capabilities, and offer excellent vector search capabilities and AI ecosystem integrations. With the new AlloyDB free trial clusters, users can try it for free. AlloyDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible powerhouse engineered for those who crave more from their database.

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