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Global internet traffic surges 17% as post-quantum cryptography adoption grows

Network World

Overall internet traffic continues to grow year after year, with no slowdown in sight. Cloudflare released its annual Cloudflare Radar Year in Review report this week, providing insights into the state of the internet in 2024. The report found that once again Google is the most popular internet service overall.

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Google Cloud outage disrupts over 50 services globally for over 7 hours

Network World

Google Cloud suffered a major outage on Thursday, affecting countless apps and services that power both industries and consumers. The incident, which lasted over 7 hours, started at 2:51 PM UTC and was resolved by 10:18 pm UTC, as per the Google Cloud Service Health report. We regret the disruption this caused our customers.”

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Cisco, Google Cloud offer enterprises new way to connect SD-WANs

Network World

Cisco and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership to integrate Ciscos SD-WAN with the cloud providers fully managed Cloud WAN service. That lets customers use existing Cisco SD-WAN security policies and controls in the Google Cloud, Cisco stated.

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Microsoft vs. Google cloud-spat belies anticompetitive reckonings for both

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft has accused Google of building a lobby front in Europe to take action against Microsoft. 28, Rima Alaily, Microsoft corporate vice president and deputy general counsel, described the recently founded Open Cloud Coalition (OCC) , allegedly financed and controlled by Google, as an “astroturf group.” In a blog post dated Oct.

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Cisco bolsters DNS security package

Network World

But the growth of direct enterprise internet connections and remote work make DNS optimization for threat defense, privacy, compliance, and performance ever more important, Cisco stated.Along with core security hygiene, like a patching program, strong DNS-layer security is the leading cost-effective way to improve security posture.

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CIOs look beyond ‘Big 3’ cloud providers for AI innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

AWS, Microsoft, and Google may continue to dominate the enterprise cloud market, but a raft of second-tier cloud providers are proving to be valuable partners for organizations and innovators with specialized workloads and use cases especially in the burgeoning AI era. Athos Therapeutics is one such enterprise.

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More than one-third of cloud environments are critically exposed, says Tenable

Network World

Add in the fact that 23% of cloud identities on the major hyperscalers (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure), both human and non-human, have critical or high severity excessive permissions, and you have a recipe for disaster.

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