Articles about Google Cloud Platform

Spotify, Snapchat taken offline by networking problems at Google Cloud

Google took a turn in the cloud doghouse Tuesday afternoon, after several issues forced popular consumer sites like Spotify, Snapchat,… Read More

Kubernetes in Europe: The most significant news from Kubecon this week

The Kubernetes train stops in Europe this week, as over 4,000 attendees attend keynote sessions and technical talks that continue… Read More

Twitter moves its part of its massive Hadoop data platform to Google Cloud

After early problems scaling its infrastructure nearly derailed the company before it got off the ground, Twitter wound up developing… Read More

Google spent a lot of money on its cloud business during Q1 as it gears up for a big year

Operating a modern public cloud is an enormously expensive undertaking. It looks like Google expanded its cloud computing capacity in… Read More

Longtime Amazon Web Services customer Netflix said to be cozying up to Google

Netflix was arguably Amazon Web Services’ most important customer during its rise to the top of the public cloud market… Read More

Google plans to boost cloud performance between Asia and Australia with new undersea cable

Google’s latest undersea cable project will result in a faster connection between important tech centers in Asia and Australia like… Read More

Google introduces several new cloud security tools, promises transparency and usability

Two days after one of Google’s earliest employees laid down a bit of a manifesto regarding its commitment to cybersecurity,… Read More

Return of the JEDI: Why the cloud industry is closely eyeing a big Pentagon cloud contract

The Department of Defense is planning to have a cloud bake-off this year, soliciting proposals from the tech industry to… Read More

Google unveils Cloud AutoML, a new set of cloud services that promise easier machine learning

Google has figured out a way to make sophisticated machine-learning techniques available to cloud customers who want to use that… Read More

Google announces plans for five new cloud computing regions, as well as new undersea cables

In 2018 Google will launch five new cloud computing regions around the world, adding capacity as it gears up to… Read More

Who will pay for Meltdown and Spectre? Chip flaws could leave a financial mess in their wake

2018 greeted CIOs around the planet in quite rude fashion, following the revelation of two 20-year-old undiscovered security flaws in… Read More

A week later, the long-term impact of the Meltdown and Spectre chip flaws is starting to become clearer

Cloud users and data center managers began to understand the performance effects of the patches required by the Meltdown/Spectre chip… Read More

Updated: Cloud vendors secretly scramble to patch critical flaw in Intel chips, performance hits expected

Update 5:30pm: Intel held a press conference Wednesday afternoon after this was published, and several researchers released a lot more… Read More

Microsoft acquires flash storage pioneer Avere Systems, less than a year after Google investment

Microsoft has reached an agreement to acquire Avere Systems, a Pittsburgh-based company that leverages flash storage to optimize the process… Read More

Google, NCAA team up on cloud marketing deal, will digitize 80 years of sports data

Ever wondered who was the best basketball player in the Pac-10 in 1982? If that trivia item has been bugging… Read More

Google adds one-time cloud-holdout Etsy, months after Amazon rolled out its own craft shop

Over the last few years, Etsy was something of a stalwart supporter when it came to the virtues of maintaining… Read More

Google’s Urs Hölzle still thinks its cloud revenue will catch its ad revenue, but maybe not by 2020

At Structure 2015, Google’s Urs Hölzle predicted that Google would get as much revenue from cloud computing as it did… Read More

Salesforce and Google strike partnership deal around G Suite and Google Cloud

Salesforce is teaming up with Google on several fronts, integrating Salesforce data into Google’s G Suite business productivity software and… Read More

Google and Puppet strike partnership deal designed to ease migration to the cloud

Puppet and Google announced a new partnership Tuesday designed to help Puppet customers running its DevOps software on-premises move their… Read More

Google follows Amazon Web Services in allowing cloud customers to bill by the second

One week after Amazon Web Services announced per-second billing for its cloud customers, Google plans to do the same for… Read More

Google, Microsoft emphasize cloud security as hacks intensify and big businesses eye the cloud

Security fears have been associated with cloud computing ever since it began, and for the most part those fears have… Read More

Marketo decides to go all-in on cloud computing, and picks Google as its home

One of the bigger marketing software companies, Marketo, has decided it’s ready to ditch its servers and move into the… Read More

Google unveils a new, cheaper networking option for cloud customers: the public internet

Google Cloud Platform customers will have a new option when selecting the type of network used to deliver their traffic… Read More

Report: Amazon Web Services warming up to Kubernetes for container management

If the cloud world really does settle on Kubernetes as the de facto standard for managing containerized workloads, Amazon Web… Read More

(L to R): Charles Fitzgerald, Platformonomics; Frank Artale, Ignition Partners; Shelia Gulati, Tola Capital; S. "Soma" Somasegar, Madrona Venture Group

Sizing up the cloud wars: Three Seattle VCs break down the competition between Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google

When it comes to the public cloud, there are three companies at the forefront of everyone’s mind: Amazon Web Services,… Read More

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