Faced with the risks of massive hacking and actions sometimes carried out at government levels, the security of cloud services is the subject of all attention and the time is for the development of specific systems and components at service providers.
To stand out from the competition and praise the merits of its cloud infrastructures, Alphabet / Google recalls that it has integrated a specific security chip called "data center" into its servers and network equipment in data centers Titan and unveiled at the start of the year.
This permanently monitors the equipment and checks that the configuration has not undergone unauthorized modifications, indicates Reuters, and more details on how it will work will be released this week.
The promotion of this dedicated Titan chip also aims to try to gain market share from competitors Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud services segment by promoting the security of servers in data centers, an element that could appeal to specific sensitive segments such as the financial and medical sectors.
It is not the first time that Alphabet has developed its own components for its own needs. In the artificial intelligence sector, Google unveiled the TPU last year (TensorFlow Processing Unit), a component that has contributed to the success of AlphaGo, the artificial intelligence that makes the game of go unhappy.
