One of Google Cloud’s standout features is its extensive worldwide infrastructure, boasting a vast network of 39 diverse Google Cloud regions. This infrastructure offers specialized capabilities, guaranteeing the delivery of high-performance, low-latency cloud services in over 200 countries and territories.

Global Expansion: A Testament to Innovation

Recent developments have seen Google Cloud expedite its global expansion efforts. The company has unveiled plans to introduce additional Cloud regions across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) regions. Additionally, Google Cloud has fulfilled its commitment to open regions in strategically chosen territories, including Tel Aviv, Turin, Doha, and Berlin-Brandenburg.

Google Cloud: Bridging Gaps Globally

One of the most significant expansions is the establishment of a Google Cloud region in Greece, located in Athens. This move is poised to drive the nation’s digital transformation and sustainable growth substantially. The choice of Athens as a pivotal location underscores Google’s commitment to supporting local innovation and progress.

Mexico is another focus of Google Cloud’s expansion efforts, with the forthcoming Cloud region set to be stationed in Querétaro. This strategic positioning aims to meet the surging demand for cloud services across a wide spectrum of Mexican industries. When fully operational, this region will join Santiago and São Paulo to form Google Cloud’s Latin America cloud region.

Emiliano Calderón, Coordinator of Estrategia Digital Nacional, highlighted the transformative potential of this expansion. He noted that “Accessing cloud-driven innovations in a local, secure, reliable, and scalable way means public sector organizations have the ability to offer greater services, often more efficiently and economically. The cloud region in Mexico will undoubtedly accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies and democratize their benefits for citizens and disadvantaged communities.”

Empowering New Zealand’s Digital Transformation

New Zealand is set to receive its first Google Cloud region, strategically located in Auckland. This development will empower Kiwi businesses to accelerate their digital transformations with enhanced local speed, security, and scalability. Simon Kennedy, Chief Digital Officer of Foodstuffs North Island, expressed enthusiasm, highlighting how this investment will enable greater opportunities to serve New Zealanders efficiently.

Sustainability at the Core

Sustainability forms an integral part of Google’s strategy. The company has been a pioneer in renewable energy adoption, matching 100% of its energy consumption with renewable sources since 2017. Google now sets its sights on a net-zero emissions goal across its operations and value chain by 2030. Leveraging technology’s power, Google is committed to advancing human rights and integrating such perspectives into its planning process.

A Vision for the Future

As Google Cloud regions continue to proliferate globally, the company remains steadfast in its commitment to working and delivering solutions that cater to the complex needs of its clients. Additionally, Google Cloud is dedicated to forging a more sustainable future that provides equal opportunities for everyone.

Are you excited about how Google Cloud’s expansion can transform the way your business operates? Share your thoughts and comments below. Google Cloud’s relentless pursuit of innovation and sustainability promises a brighter future for enterprises and communities worldwide.

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Google diligently champions the https://techinsight.newshub.talkabout.tech/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2019/09/uk-technology-heatmap-3.jpg Trust security model, leveraging it extensively in the strategy for our proprietary as well as customer-facing products. Whether in the cloud, staying productive in the office, or while on the move, we entrust Chrome Enterprise with the safety of enterprise users and corporate data on the web.

In the previous year, we laid the groundwork for Chrome Enterprise Connectors Framework, establishing interfaces between Chrome Enterprise and top-tier cybersecurity solution providers. This framework accords organizations the ability to augment their native Chrome ecosystem security, thereby escalating their progress towards a secure enterprise browsing journey.

An Initiative Toward Context-Aware Access Control: Chrome Enterprise Integrates with Okta

Amid the growing trend of a dispersed workforce, access control is a fundamental component of an enterprise’s security strategy for averting unwarranted access, data breaches, and cyberattacks.

We are excited to announce that the Okta and Chrome Enterprise Device Trust integration is now accessible. This integration allows organizations to establish authentication policies that factor in device signals like browser version and OS firewall from the managed Chrome browsers on multiple platforms, such as Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS. This feature will amplify protection for enterprise resources.

The synergy between Chrome Enterprise and Okta brings countless benefits to organizations, including:

• Amplified security through a variety of device signals and device assurance guidelines, authorizing IT admins to block or reject application access.
• Robust access policies with minimal setup, supplementing those configured through Unified Endpoint Management.
• Compliance with internal device standards and security preconditions.
• Efficient application of https://techinsight.newshub.talkabout.tech/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2019/09/uk-technology-heatmap-3.jpg Trust principles while ensuring a superb user experience.

As we gear towards deploying this new integration, let’s hear from an expert in the field:

“Our security team aims to secure internal resources and apps while ensuring a user-friendly experience. The integration of Chrome Enterprise and Okta Device Trust marks an innovative solution that enhances security by introducing device context into our Okta authentication policies with minimal extra effort for IT teams” – Mark Laubender, Security Engineer and Tech Lead at Snap Inc.

Google is persistently committed to helping businesses operate more securely online. In partnership with third-party security providers, we continually deliver secure enterprise browsing solutions, aiding organizations in building unique, best-in-class technology stacks.

Takeaways

Dive into the world of secure internet browsing with Chrome Enterprise now. Feel free to share your thoughts and experiences in the comments below. Your feedback is invaluable as we continue to innovate and evolve our services to serve you better.

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In our data-driven world, it can sometimes seem like the rules for tech firms breach borders across the world – the more money you have to play with, it seems, the more rules you can bend. Today, at least, that isn’t the case, as Meta received a record Facebook fine for breaching rules put in place to safeguard users’ information.

Today, Hannah Murphy at the Financial Times has reported that Meta has been hit with a record €1.2bn (£1.4bn GBP) fine by a European Union regulatory board for “privacy violations”, and ordered to suspend all user data transfers to the US. As Murphy points out, it’s the most significant penalty of its kind in the bloc’s – that is to say, the continent’s – history.

Meta wants to go broader than borders

It transpires that Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, the DPC, has taken umbrage with Meta’s handling of users’ data. The regulator exists to keep organisations of its nature accountable; according to the DPC, Facebook, which handles its European operations out of Dublin, had violated rules requiring the transfers of personal data from the EU to the US without appropriate safeguards in place.

It’s significant that the DPC is figure heading for the entire EU – so often, Meta and similar corporations seem to bypass national jurisdiction – but no surprise, considering its European base of operations.

“We are . . .  disappointed to have been singled out when using the same legal mechanism as thousands of other companies looking to provide services in Europe,”
– Facebook’s Nick Clegg

The ruling follows continued pressure within Europe for regulators to keep a close eye on its citizens’ data, and where it’s being used. Previously, activists have warned that private information remains “exposed to surveillance programmes”.

Previously serving as the Leader of the Liberal Democrats and the UK’s Deputy Prime Minister, Clegg certainly raised some eyebrows when he joined the company as its president of global affairs. Yet his position within the company provides an indication of Meta’s grand ambitions, and crucially, the calibre of employees the corporation is willing to recruit, to skirt the legal line. This time, it hasn’t paid off.

Clegg, however, offered an indictment of the decision: “This decision is flawed, unjustified and sets a dangerous precedent for the countless other companies transferring data between the EU and the US.”

Facebook fine: where does Meta go from here?

The thing is, it’s easy to demonise one of the most ubiquitous companies on the planet – Facebook alone has 2.91 billion active users. Clegg’s comments potentially signal a sea change regarding how and why gargantuan corporations store “private” user data, but Meta certainly isn’t the only organisation we’ve put our faith in that ships and stores our data globally.

George Orwell once predicted a surveillance state, but he could never have predicted that such surveillance wouldn’t stem from our physical presence, but our digital footprint. Looking to the future, the DPC has issued Facebook’s EU HQ five months to “suspend any future transfer of personal data to the US,” and six months to cease processing EU citizens’ personal information in violation of the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation.

It gives Meta a headstart: a way to either find a new loophole with which to thread the needle, or potentially plan to retreat and regroup on the other side of the Atlantic. Have they overstepped? Maybe, but for a corporation monopolising the market that’s reportedly worth $646.29 billion USD, Meta may just be fine to flex its muscles, incur the cost, and carry on regardless.

Source: Facebook owner Meta hit with record €1.2bn fine over EU-US data transfers.

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