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Google Cloud’s annual Next event is happening in San Francisco next week (and we’ll be on the ground to cover all of the announcements), but ahead of the event, Google Cloud today put a spotlight on its partner ecosystem. It’s no secret that in its early days, Google’s cloud efforts were somewhat hindered by its inexperience in working with large enterprises and the consultancies, professional service firms and partners they rely on. But when Thomas Kurian took on the CEO role in 2019, he set Google Cloud on a path to build out that expertise and an open partner ecosystem, which is now…

With the successful landing of the Lander Module of ISRO’s third lunar mission Chandrayaan-3, India has reached the Moon! It has also became the first country to land near the Moon’s south pole. The Lander Module (LM) of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) third lunar mission Chandrayaan-3, launched on July 14, made a successfully landing on the Moon’s surface on August 23, making India only the fourth country after the erstwhile USSR, the U.S. and China to make a soft landing on the lunar surface. Congratulating the team of scientists at ISRO, PM Modi said, “India’s successful moon mission is not India’s alone…Our…

The Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA), 2023 – which was passed in the Rajya Sabha – has now become a law. It received presidential assent However, it appears that the law is impeded by several fundamental flaws, which are likely to prevent it from fulfilling the purported objectives that were sought to be achieved when it was being drafted as a data protection and privacy law. More importantly, the law may ultimately be seen as a tool through which the government will be able to circumvent the already scant mechanisms that are available to individuals with regard to their…

In 2022, software developers in India contributed to over 24% of AI related projects in GitHub, the most in the world, according to Stanford’s latest Artificial Intelligence Index Report. However, China dominates AI-related journal publications by a huge margin. Also, in terms of journal collaborations in AI, the U.S. and China are leading other country pairs decisively.The chart depicts the global count of AI publications. Between 2010 and 2021, AI publications increased significantly, rising from 2 lakh in 2010 to nearly 5 lakh by 2021. Chart appears incomplete? Click to remove AMP mode Types of publicationsThe chart illustrates the categories…

Researchers at Harvard University have used Google LLC’s public cloud infrastructure platform to create a clone of a supercomputer that was used to perform a heart disease study. They claim it’s a highly original use of cloud computing resources that can help other researchers who are struggling to access powerful supercomputers to complete their studies. Harvard professor Petros Koumoutsakos told Reuters that the study was intended to simulate a new therapy that’s designed to dissolve blood clots and tumor cells in the human circulatory system. His team required enormous amounts of computing power that are typically only available with supercomputers. According to…

The vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-38401 and CVE-2023-38402, affect the HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Intranet Access (VIA) client for the Microsoft Windows operating system. If the exploit is successful, the attacker can overwrite arbitrary files. HPE Aruba Networking has issued an upgrade to address these multiple high-severity vulnerabilities. There is no workaround for these vulnerabilities The vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-38401 and CVE-2023-38402, affect the HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Intranet Access (VIA) client for the Microsoft Windows operating system. If the exploit is successful, the attacker can overwrite arbitrary files. HPE Aruba Networking has issued an upgrade to address these multiple high-severity vulnerabilities. There is no workaround for these vulnerabilities.  The company…

Business leaders are winding down their cost-cutting cloud-optimization efforts and are preparing to pump significant new investments into cloud migrations along with cutting-edge deployments of data applications and artificial intelligence (AI) applications, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Fresh on the heels of Microsoft’s booming fiscal-Q4 results that saw cloud revenue climb 21% to $30.3 billion, Nadella said that spending on forward-looking business initiatives powered by the cloud will rise as companies prepare for the next wave of tech-powered innovation and its close cousin, disruption. Underscoring Nadella’s perspective on where Microsoft customers are headed, CFO Amy Hood said the company’s capex will rise significantly throughout…

SQL often struggles when it comes to managing massive amounts of time series data, but it’s not because of the language itself. The main culprit is the architecture that SQL typically works in, namely relational databases, which quickly become inefficient because they’re not designed for analytical queries of large volumes of time series data. Traditionally, SQL is used with relational database management systems (RDBMS) that are inherently transactional. They are structured around the concept of maintaining and updating records based on a rigid, predefined schema. For a long time, the most widespread type of database was relational, with SQL as its inseparable companion,…

Pricing API will provide an inventory of public services and SKUs along with account-specific custom prices and discounts with additional metadata, down to the SKU level. Google Cloud has released Pricing API for its cloud services in order to help enterprises optimize their cloud expenditure as they continue to face macroeconomic uncertainty. The new API, which is currently in public preview, is an improvement over Google’s existing Billing Catalog API, the company said. While the Billing Catalog API only provides an inventory of public services and SKUs with their list prices, the Pricing API will also provide account-specific custom prices and discounts with additional metadata,…

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has reported tiny revenue growth, but a 106 percent surge in earnings for its cloud services, despite a marked slowdown in demand. The two outcomes are linked: CEO Daniel Zhang told investors who tuned into a Q2 earnings call “The growth rate was negatively impacted by the normalization of CDN demand as usage of video streaming, remote working, and remote learning came down when offline activities resumed after pandemic measures were lifted.” But less traffic meant lower costs. Zhang said Alibaba’s Teams-like collaboration tool DingTalk – which is part of Alibaba Cloud – reported “reduced co-location…