Update 6:13pm PT: Google sounded the all-clear at 5:09 pm PT, saying that all service had been restored. Our original story follows below. Six weeks after Google dubiously claimed it… Read More
— Vacation home rental company Vacasa added former OpenTable CEO Matt Roberts to its board of directors. Roberts led OpenTable through its IPO in 2009 and later served as CEO… Read More
Seattle-based graphic design and photo editing platform PicMonkey appointed Pearl Chan as chief financial officer and Judith McGarry as chief marketing officer. Chan previously held finance leadership roles at NetMotion… Read More
The slide whizzed by during a Google Cloud Next keynote address last month in San Francisco, perhaps a little too quickly for the more than 30,000 in attendance to process… Read More
Two long-serving members of Alphabet’s board of directors who also played prominent roles as executives at the company plan to leave its board in June, Alphabet announced Tuesday. The board… Read More
The centerpiece of Google’s Seattle expansion is in flux after a construction crane for the tech giant’s new campus in Amazon’s backyard toppled over the weekend, killing four people and… Read More
Artificial intelligence can rev up recommendation engines and make self-driving cars safer. It can even beat humans at their own games. But what else will it do? At today’s session… Read More
New Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has a lot of work to do. The company that basically invented the concept of hyperscale distributed computing has notably failed to capitalize on… Read More
Google plans to raise the stakes Tuesday in the ongoing debate over open-source software in a cloudy world with the announcement of commercial managed-service deals with seven key open-source data-oriented… Read More
One downside of paying a cloud computing vendor to manage a lot of your computing infrastructure is that if you ever want to switch providers, it promises to be painful.… Read More
After spending billions over the last few years to upgrade its cloud computing infrastructure, Google thinks it is ready to tackle the needs of some of the most demanding customers… Read More
What’s the best way to celebrate Pi Day? That’s the geeky holiday that takes place on 3/14 … in other words, today. For some, it’s a day for baking geeky… Read More
It’s easier to win cloud business when it’s easier for potential customers to move their data into your cloud, and Google thinks a startup called Alooma can help move that… Read More
Google continued to plow the profits from its search advertising business into cloud computing capacity and headcount during the fourth quarter of 2018, as its cloud business enters a new… Read More
Google’s quest to find revenue from something other than search advertising has led it in some interesting directions. G Suite is one of the most successful projects that has emerged… Read More
What a difference a year makes. Kubernetes has been one of the most prominent open-source projects in cloud computing over the last several years, sparking its own conference that more… Read More
At the peak of its power, open-source software is having an existential crisis. There’s no question that the concept of open-source software has revolutionized the enterprise software world, which spent… Read More
Three eventful years after veteran tech executive and longtime Google board member Diane Greene was brought in to run the company’s cloud business, she announced plans to step down from… Read More
Google plans to introduce a central repository for machine-learning tools Thursday, with the aim of making it easier for companies new to artificial intelligence to get up and running. AI… Read More
Building and maintaining a modern cloud computing service requires billions of dollars in capital expenditures every quarter. Microsoft and Google continued to increase their investments in servers and data centers… Read More
Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene joined the increasing list of prominent U.S. technology and business executives distancing themselves from the Saudi Arabian government’s Future Investment Initiative, an event that has… Read More
Google’s decision to articulate a set of principles around its use of artificial intelligence has officially cost it business. EARLIER: Interview: How Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene is navigating the… Read More
With one notable exception, Cloudflare has brought several major cloud and data center companies together in a new industry group called the Bandwidth Alliance, which intends to waive or greatly… Read More
After an interesting year for Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence group, Andrew Moore, dean of computer science at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, will become head of the division at the end… Read More
Google is practicing what it preaches, handing control of one of the most vital components of its data center operation over to its machine-learning algorithms during the past few months.… Read More
Is Amazon Web Services going to be the Google of cloud computing? About 15 years ago, Google’s search technology catapulted it ahead of other search engines into a place atop… Read More
After years of precipitous declines in the price of cloud computing, things seem to be stabilizing, and Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene thinks that’s because the nature of the customer… Read More
It has been a weird year for Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene. Just as the company’s cloud-computing division has started to hit its stride, signing enterprise deals and reaping the… Read More
GitHub tried to put worries about its independence under Microsoft to rest Thursday, announcing a partnership with Google Cloud that will make it easier for developers to use a new… Read More
Customers of Google’s G Suite office productivity software will soon be able to access an investigative tool that lets them identify problematic users without having to sort through traffic logs,… Read More