Google’s top executives will unveil their latest cloud initiatives Wednesday morning, making the case for big businesses to choose Google’s cloud over Microsoft Azure, public cloud leader Amazon Web Services and other competing… Read More
Snap Inc.’s Spectacles camera glasses landed in Seattle for the first time Wednesday, but one of the city’s tech giants has quietly captured a much bigger deal from the Snapchat parent… Read More
Snap Inc. disclosed a major contract to use Google Cloud Platform as part of its $3 billion IPO filing today. RELATED As it files for IPO, Snap Inc. warns that Brexit and… Read More
Google is going after a core part of Microsoft’s cloud business, aiming to expand Google Cloud Platform’s appeal to big companies that run the classic combination of Microsoft’s Windows Server and SQL Server. Google… Read More
Google Cloud Platform today moved to compete more directly with cloud market leader Amazon Web Services, revamping its storage offerings, introducing a new “cold storage” service and cutting some prices… Read More
How do you channel a flood of almost 5 million images into useful applications? Google Cloud is doing it with more than 30 years’ worth of satellite imagery from the Landsat and… Read More
The four most important criteria for developers who are assessing public-cloud providers are infrastructure, analytics, migration services and tools, Forrester Research said in a publication today. By those criteria, Amazon Web Services… Read More
Google Cloud Platform today released three database services from beta, signaling that they’re ready for production use. Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Datastore are all now in general release,… Read More
Google Cloud Platform today opened its first West Coast cloud region, named us-west1, in The Dalles, Ore. Testing shows the new region will offer West Coast customers a latency drop of… Read More
Amazon Web Services scored slightly higher than Microsoft’s Azure in Gartner’s comprehensive Infrastructure as a Service assessment, released by the research firm today. The ranking can be seen as progress for Microsoft,… Read More
Google Cloud Platform is aiming to add video processing to its services through its acquisition of Anvato, a Mountain View, Calif, company that automates the encoding, editing, publishing and secure distribution of video.… Read More
Yesterday, a report from tech news publication CRN alleged that Apple is moving some of its cloud spending from Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Platform. The report was verified by… Read More
Apple is stuck between two major competitors when it comes to obtaining cloud space. Historically, the iPhone maker has used Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure to store data and,… Read More
You may not be storing much music on your computer or phone anymore, but it’s still taking up a lot disk space somewhere. Spotify has been handling that storage for its… Read More
Google slashed prices on its cloud computing products today, just a month after Amazon surprised everyone by revealing that its own cloud business was profitable. In a blog post today, Urs Hölzle, Google’s SVP… Read More
Google launched a new Cloud Launcher feature for its Cloud Platform today that lets developers easily set up popular open source packages. The tool drastically reduces the amount of time… Read More
Amazon Web Services continues to dominate cloud computing, with 57 percent of technical professionals saying in a new survey that they run applications on AWS. That’s up from 54 percent… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Google took another shot at its competitors in the public cloud space with a smorgasbord of new announcements at its Cloud Platform Live conference in San Francisco… Read More
Google kicked off what’s sure to be another pricing war in the public cloud services arena today by dropping the price of all its Compute Engine instances by roughly 10… Read More
In an attempt to gain market share among up-and-coming startups, Google announced a new Cloud Platform for Startups program today that gives qualified startups $100,000 in Google Cloud Platform credits that… Read More
Google’s cloud team is on a city-by-city roadshow, trying to persuade developers to use Google Cloud Platform to run their apps and online services, leveraging the technology developed by Google to run its own… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO– As more companies move workloads into cloud services, a key problem remains: How to secure data. Urs Hözle, Google’s Senior Vice President of Technical Infrastructure, thinks Google has… Read More
An expanded partnership between Microsoft and enterprise software giant SAP, announced this morning, has the potential to boost Windows Phone and help the Redmond company compete more effectively against its two of its biggest… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – When it comes to the cloud, Google is taking the long view. Urs Hözle, Google’s Senior Vice President for Technical Infrastructure, said during today’s Google Cloud Platform Live… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – A rotating cast of Google executives took the stage at today’s Google Cloud Platform Live conference in San Francisco to announce a host of new capabilities for… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO–Google wants it to be cheaper to build an app in the cloud. Urs Hözle, Google’s Senior Vice President for Technical Infrastructure, said at today’s Google Cloud Platform Live… Read More
Google’s cloud services team is going on an international tour in a bid to bring companies onto its cloud services platform, the company announced today. Following its Google Cloud Platform… Read More