Articles about Google Cloud

Tech Moves: Google Cloud hires Microsoft exec Hayete Gallot in new president role; Impinj CRO retires; WSU names president

— Google named Hayete Gallot, most recently Microsoft’s corporate vice president of commercial solutions, to the newly created position of… Read More

Amazon earnings preview: AWS cloud growth, AI demand, trade wars among key issues to watch

Amazon’s cloud growth rate has been increasing steadily in recent quarters, and investors are looking for the trend to continue… Read More

With new Amazon Web Services partnership, Oracle’s cloud database trade-off is complete

Oracle announced a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services on Monday afternoon that will further integrate its database offerings and… Read More

Microsoft will make Khan Academy’s Khanmigo AI tool free to U.S. teachers in cloud shift

Online education platform Khan Academy is shifting a portion of its cloud workload to Microsoft Azure under a partnership announced… Read More

Asteroid hunters say they’ve found 27,500 new prospects in search for space rocks

A team of asteroid hunters that includes researchers at the University of Washington says it has identified 27,500 new, high-confidence… Read More

Capital spending soars in the cloud as Microsoft, Google, and others bet big on AI demand

Analysts, investors, and the media are suddenly focused intensely on capital expenditures by tech giants including Microsoft, Meta, Google, and… Read More

With new Gemini model, Google tries to set a new standard in AI race vs. OpenAI and Microsoft

Google started to roll out its long-awaited Gemini multimodal artificial intelligence model Wednesday morning, touting its ability to natively process… Read More

Sphere of influence? Google’s big Vegas ad buy clouds the landscape at Amazon re:Invent

Reporting from Las Vegas … Brilliant marketing move or big waste of money? That’s the debate after Google Cloud bought… Read More

AI in the cloud: Microsoft boosts share; Amazon predicts ‘tens of billions’ in new revenue

AI is starting to generate real money for the big cloud providers. Global spending on cloud infrastructure services topped $68… Read More

Amazon pours up to $4B into AI startup Anthropic, escalating rivalry with Microsoft and Google

Amazon will invest up to $4 billion and take a minority stake in Anthropic, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company… Read More

Google Cloud posts second straight profitable quarter on 28% revenue growth

Google Cloud boosted its operating profits to $395 million for the second quarter, a improvement of close to $1 billion… Read More

Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud

Chris Vonderhaar, a longtime Amazon Web Services executive who left the company this spring, has joined AWS rival Google Cloud.… Read More

How the economy is hitting the Amazon and Microsoft clouds, and what they’re doing about it

After soaring during the pandemic, the cloud is getting dragged down by the economy, and both of the Seattle region’s… Read More

With Google’s Mandiant deal pending, Microsoft looks to get ahead in security threat intelligence

Microsoft announced two new security threat intelligence products Tuesday morning, the latest moves in a broader effort to help businesses… Read More

Google developers set another record for calculating digits of pi: 100 trillion!

Three years after Seattle software developer Emma Haruka Iwao and her teammates at Google set the world record for calculating… Read More

Allen Institute and Google team up to build platform exploring the immune system

The Allen Institute for Immunology unveiled a new interactive platform on Wednesday to showcase the human immune system, the Human… Read More

Astronomers demonstrate how using the cloud can rev up the race to find asteroids

Astronomers have used a cloud-based technique pioneered at the University of Washington to identify and track asteroids in bunches of… Read More

Amazon, Google or Microsoft? Boeing chooses all of the above for cloud computing services

The billion-dollar competition to provide Boeing with cloud computing services is finished, and the winner is … a three-way split.… Read More

Google Cloud’s $5.4B Mandiant deal accelerates cybersecurity race with Microsoft and Amazon

Google’s agreement to buy cybersecurity company Mandiant for $5.4 billion, announced Tuesday morning, reflects a broader effort by the major… Read More

Return of the JEDI: Pentagon’s multicloud sequel puts Microsoft and Amazon in leading roles

The U.S. Department of Defense is soliciting bids from multiple companies to upgrade its technology capabilities with the benefit of… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Amazon, Andy Jassy and the cloud, with Corey Quinn of The Duckbill Group

What does Andy Jassy’s track record at Amazon Web Services say about how he’ll lead Amazon as the company’s next… Read More

Amazon sues former AWS marketing VP Brian Hall after he takes Google Cloud job

Follow-up: Amazon asks court to block former AWS marketing VP from working on Google Cloud Next speeches A lawsuit filed… Read More

Google Cloud revenue rises 52% as crisis forces tech giant to temper hiring and spending

Google Cloud revenue increased 52% to $2.78 billion in the first quarter, helping Google parent Alphabet beat Wall Street’s revenue… Read More

Amazon and Microsoft join White House team to unleash high-performance computing on COVID-19

Less than a week after the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy organized a consortium to focus the… Read More

Google discloses cloud revenue for the first time — here’s how it compares to Amazon and Microsoft

Google parent Alphabet gave new insight into the state of its cloud division this week, disclosing quarterly and annual revenue… Read More

Google wades deeper into Expedia’s territory with new travel and cloud pact with Sabre

Google is taking a major step in its travel push, teaming up with travel giant Sabre Corp. in a new… Read More

What’s at stake for Amazon’s $36B cloud business at its big AWS re:Invent conference this week

Amazon Web Services will be able to tout some of the biggest numbers in the booming cloud industry at its… Read More

Alexa in every light switch? Amazon reduces requirements for voice controls in small devices

Amazon is releasing a new integration designed to help hardware makers build its Alexa voice assistant directly into smaller devices,… Read More

Microsoft unveils Azure Arc, aiming to fend off Google and Amazon with new hybrid cloud tech

Microsoft has long made hybrid technologies a core part of its Azure platform, letting customers run cloud technologies on their… Read More

Judge limits role of former Amazon sales exec in AWS vs. Google Cloud non-compete lawsuit

A lawsuit against a former Amazon Web Services sales executive who joined rival Google Cloud earlier this year took an… Read More