Titanium
A system of purpose-built, custom, silicon, security microcontrollers and tiered scale-out offloads, that improve infrastructure performance, life cycle management, reliability, and security.
Titanium, powered by Google
Titanium underpins Google Cloud’s latest compute instance types (C4, N4, C3D, C3, A3, H3, X4, Z3) Hyperdisk block storage, networking, and more and is available at no additional cost.
The system includes:
- Titan security microcontrollers: Custom-designed to provide a hardware root of trust for Google Cloud's infrastructure
- Titanium adapter: Dedicated offload card that provides hardware acceleration for virtualization services; this offloads processing from the host CPU, freeing up resources for your workloads
- Titanium offload processors (TOPs): A scalable and flexible way to offload network and I/O processing from the host CPU onto silicon devices deployed throughout the data center
Improved infrastructure performance
Titanium delivers more compute and memory resources for your workloads by offloading processing from the host hardware.
- Up to 500k IOPS per instance with Hyperdisk Extreme block storage; the highest among leading hyperscalers
- Up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth
- Network encryption at full line rate, providing security without sacrificing performance
- Bare-metal-like consistent performance for the most sensitive workloads
Seamless infrastructure life cycle management
The modular software and hardware of Titanium, coupled with offloading functionality, facilitates infrastructure updates while maintaining workload continuity and security.
- Seamless updates for majority of workloads and advanced maintenance controls for the most sensitive workloads
- Remote infrastructure updates can be initiated from anywhere
- Networking and storage functions are all executed off host, in dedicated domains of the Titanium adapter, allowing independent updates and maintenance of each service, isolated from workloads on the host
Take the next step
Tell us what you’re solving for. A Google Cloud expert will help you find the best solution.
Work with a trusted partner
Find a partnerStart using Google Cloud
Try it freeContinue browsing
See all products
