Google took a turn in the cloud doghouse Tuesday afternoon, after several issues forced popular consumer sites like Spotify, Snapchat, and Pokemon Go offline for about 40 minutes. Users started… Read More
The Kubernetes train stops in Europe this week, as over 4,000 attendees attend keynote sessions and technical talks that continue through Friday on containers, container-orchestration, microservices, and even serverless computing… Read More
After early problems scaling its infrastructure nearly derailed the company before it got off the ground, Twitter wound up developing some world-class systems for keeping the service alive. It announced… Read More
Operating a modern public cloud is an enormously expensive undertaking. It looks like Google expanded its cloud computing capacity in a big way during its first quarter of the year,… Read More
Netflix was arguably Amazon Web Services’ most important customer during its rise to the top of the public cloud market over the last decade, but it sounds like their special… Read More
Google’s latest undersea cable project will result in a faster connection between important tech centers in Asia and Australia like Taiwan and Sydney, the company plans to announce Tuesday evening.… Read More
Two days after one of Google’s earliest employees laid down a bit of a manifesto regarding its commitment to cybersecurity, the company backed up the talk Wednesday with several new… Read More
The Department of Defense is planning to have a cloud bake-off this year, soliciting proposals from the tech industry to build a next-generation cloud infrastructure project that would bring the… Read More
Google has figured out a way to make sophisticated machine-learning techniques available to cloud customers who want to use that technology in their apps without having to hire an expensive… Read More
In 2018 Google will launch five new cloud computing regions around the world, adding capacity as it gears up to take on its cloud rivals. The company announced Tuesday that… Read More
2018 greeted CIOs around the planet in quite rude fashion, following the revelation of two 20-year-old undiscovered security flaws in the chips that run their clouds and data centers last… Read More
Cloud users and data center managers began to understand the performance effects of the patches required by the Meltdown/Spectre chip vulnerabilities over the weekend. While it seems initial fears of… Read More
Update 5:30pm: Intel held a press conference Wednesday afternoon after this was published, and several researchers released a lot more details about these issues. That story is here. The companies… Read More
Microsoft has reached an agreement to acquire Avere Systems, a Pittsburgh-based company that leverages flash storage to optimize the process of saving and retrieving files in the cloud and other… Read More
Ever wondered who was the best basketball player in the Pac-10 in 1982? If that trivia item has been bugging you since the Reagan administration, Google Cloud Platform and the… Read More
Over the last few years, Etsy was something of a stalwart supporter when it came to the virtues of maintaining one’s own computing infrastructure, but it has changed its mind.… Read More
At Structure 2015, Google’s Urs Hölzle predicted that Google would get as much revenue from cloud computing as it did from its formidable advertising business by 2020. Two years later,… Read More
Salesforce is teaming up with Google on several fronts, integrating Salesforce data into Google’s G Suite business productivity software and using Google Cloud as it expands internationally, Salesforce announced Monday.… Read More
Puppet and Google announced a new partnership Tuesday designed to help Puppet customers running its DevOps software on-premises move their applications into Google Cloud. The two companies have worked to… Read More
One week after Amazon Web Services announced per-second billing for its cloud customers, Google plans to do the same for Google Cloud Platform customers running virtual machine instances. The new… Read More
Security fears have been associated with cloud computing ever since it began, and for the most part those fears have been unfounded: the big cloud providers are way better at… Read More
One of the bigger marketing software companies, Marketo, has decided it’s ready to ditch its servers and move into the cloud, and Google is getting the business. The two companies… Read More
Google Cloud Platform customers will have a new option when selecting the type of network used to deliver their traffic to their users: they can keep using Google’s network, or… Read More
If the cloud world really does settle on Kubernetes as the de facto standard for managing containerized workloads, Amazon Web Services is thinking about how to navigate those waters. In… Read More
When it comes to the public cloud, there are three companies at the forefront of everyone’s mind: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google. How do they stack up against each… Read More
For most of its existence, Google Cloud Platform has been fighting just to get a seat at the table for cloud business against Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. If… Read More
Google is “rethinking our computational architecture again,” according to CEO Sundar Pichai, who rolled out the next generation of Google’s specialized chips for machine-learning research Wednesday. The new chips are… Read More
Underscoring how the internet of things is finally going mainstream in 2017, Google now has a new service for Google Cloud Platform that makes it easier for customers to upload… Read More
No, the image above isn’t from a Microsoft event. That’s the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco this morning, where Google Cloud announced a new partner program designed to help… Read More
A comment today by Google’s top cloud executive, taking a subtle jab at Amazon Web Services, isn’t sitting well with Microsoft for a different reason. With last week’s Amazon Web Services outage still… Read More