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Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud takes the stage: Can the consumer tech giant finally crack the enterprise?

Google’s top executives will unveil their latest cloud initiatives Wednesday morning, making the case for big businesses to choose Google’s cloud over… Read More

Snap commits to spend $1B on Amazon Web Services over next five years

Snap Inc.’s Spectacles camera glasses landed in Seattle for the first time Wednesday, but one of the city’s tech giants… Read More

Snap’s IPO filing reveals $2B, five-year Google Cloud deal — and it was finalized this week

Snap Inc. disclosed a major contract to use Google Cloud Platform as part of its $3 billion IPO filing today. RELATED As… Read More

Google vows to build leading cloud for enterprise Windows, swiping at Microsoft’s core business

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… Read More

Google Cloud Platform simplifies storage options and cuts prices in bid to compete with Amazon

Google Cloud Platform today moved to compete more directly with cloud market leader Amazon Web Services, revamping its storage offerings,… Read More

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Google Cloud offers a quadrillion bytes of Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellite views

How do you channel a flood of almost 5 million images into useful applications? Google Cloud is doing it with more… Read More

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure best serve app developers, new Forrester study concludes

The four most important criteria for developers who are assessing public-cloud providers are infrastructure, analytics, migration services and tools, Forrester Research… Read More

Google Cloud Platform releases new database services, fighting AWS and Azure for corporate customers

Google Cloud Platform today released three database services from beta, signaling that they’re ready for production use. Cloud SQL, Cloud… Read More

Google Cloud Platform opens its first West Coast region, cutting latency for users

Google Cloud Platform today opened its first West Coast cloud region, named us-west1, in The Dalles, Ore. Testing shows the new… Read More

Gartner study: Amazon Web Services edges out Microsoft Azure for Infrastructure as a Service

Amazon Web Services scored slightly higher than Microsoft’s Azure in Gartner’s comprehensive Infrastructure as a Service assessment, released by the research… Read More

Google Cloud Platform acquires Anvato to add video-processing capabilities

Google Cloud Platform is aiming to add video processing to its services through its acquisition of Anvato, a Mountain View, Calif, company that… Read More

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Amazon puzzled by leak claiming Apple is moving to Google Cloud Platform

Yesterday, a report from tech news publication CRN alleged that Apple is moving some of its cloud spending from Amazon Web… Read More

Report: Apple spending up to $600M on Google Cloud Platform, moving away from Amazon Web Services

Apple is stuck between two major competitors when it comes to obtaining cloud space. Historically, the iPhone maker has used… Read More

Google wins Spotify’s cloud-computing business in a big victory over Amazon

You may not be storing much music on your computer or phone anymore, but it’s still taking up a lot disk… Read More

Google slashes cloud prices, targeting Amazon’s profitable AWS business

Google slashed prices on its cloud computing products today, just a month after Amazon surprised everyone by revealing that its own cloud business… Read More

Google offers easy setup of open source tools with new Cloud Launcher

Google launched a new Cloud Launcher feature for its Cloud Platform today that lets developers easily set up popular open… Read More

Amazon Web Services dominates cloud survey, but Microsoft Azure gains traction

Amazon Web Services continues to dominate cloud computing, with 57 percent of technical professionals saying in a new survey that… Read More

Google brings new features to its Cloud Platform in move to attract new blood

SAN FRANCISCO — Google took another shot at its competitors in the public cloud space with a smorgasbord of new… Read More

Time for another cloud pricing war: Google announces price cuts for Compute Engine

Google kicked off what’s sure to be another pricing war in the public cloud services arena today by dropping the… Read More

Google Cloud Platform courts startups with $100K in credits

In an attempt to gain market share among up-and-coming startups, Google announced a new Cloud Platform for Startups program today… Read More

Google exec: Cloud price wars have only just begun

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… Read More

Google exec Urs Hözle: Our cloud is ‘battle-tested’ and secure

SAN FRANCISCO– As more companies move workloads into cloud services, a key problem remains: How to secure data. Urs Hözle,… Read More

Expanded SAP deal gives Microsoft new ammunition against Amazon and Google

An expanded partnership between Microsoft and enterprise software giant SAP, announced this morning, has the potential to boost Windows Phone and help the… Read More

Google exec: Cloud business will be ‘easily bigger’ than online advertising

SAN FRANCISCO – When it comes to the cloud, Google is taking the long view. Urs Hözle, Google’s Senior Vice President… Read More

Google adds a slew of new features to its Cloud Platform, including Windows Server

SAN FRANCISCO – A rotating cast of Google executives took the stage at today’s Google Cloud Platform Live conference in… Read More

Google slashes cloud prices to draw firms away from AWS

SAN FRANCISCO–Google wants it to be cheaper to build an app in the cloud. Urs Hözle, Google’s Senior Vice President… Read More

Google Cloud Platform roadshow aims to lure companies from Azure, AWS

Google’s cloud services team is going on an international tour in a bid to bring companies onto its cloud services… Read More

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