Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is aiming to ease data engineering tasks for enterprises with the release of new tools and features that support the development of advanced machine learning applications and provide cross-cloud analytics capabilities. The company claims that its new dedicated data and machine learning tools will help enterprises straighten out systemic data inefficiencies. […]
Google gets boring
Google has always delivered cloud computing a bit differently. Filled with propellerhead engineers, Google Cloud sometimes seemed to be building for über geeks like itself. Early customers included Snap and Spotify, great companies but hardly filled with Oracle DBAs holding on for just one more year to collect their pensions. Back in 2017, I wondered […]
Google gets boring
Google has always delivered cloud computing a bit differently. Filled with propellerhead engineers, Google Cloud sometimes seemed to be building for über geeks like itself. Early customers included Snap and Spotify, great companies but hardly filled with Oracle DBAs holding on for just one more year to collect their pensions. Back in 2017, I wondered […]
Google Cloud extends its reach with new Distributed Cloud options
Google Cloud is extending its reach into customers’ data centers and out to the edge under its new Distributed Cloud banner, primarily aimed at customers with unique data sovereignty, latency, or local data-processing requirements. The two new options announced this week are Google Distributed Cloud Edge and Google Distributed Cloud Hosted. Both are underpinned by […]
Google extends its reach with new Distributed Cloud options
Google Cloud is extending its reach into customers’ data centers and out to the edge under its new Distributed Cloud banner, primarily aimed at customers with unique data sovereignty, latency, or local data-processing requirements. The two new options announced this week are Google Distributed Cloud Edge and Google Distributed Cloud Hosted. Both are underpinned by […]
Cyber security in the public cloud
Among the biggest considerations companies face when selecting public cloud service providers is the level of cyber security they offer, meaning the features and capabilities they put in place to protect their own networks and services and to keep their customers’ data safe from breaches and other attacks. The three major cloud providers—Amazon Web Services […]
Will Google Cloud ever win over enterprises?
It may well have done more to push forward cloud-native computing techniques than any other company on the planet, but Google Cloud continues to struggle to turn that engineering prowess into an enterprise toolkit to rival Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. The latest figures from Synergy Research Group, which tracks the cloud infrastructure […]
Will Google Cloud ever win over enterprises?
It may well have done more to push forward cloud-native computing techniques than any other company on the planet, but Google Cloud continues to struggle to turn that engineering prowess into an enterprise toolkit to rival Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. The latest figures from Synergy Research Group, which tracks the cloud infrastructure […]
The great cloud computing surge
We reached a big milestone in 2020: Cloud services revenue finally surpassed enterprise spending on data centers, according to the Synergy Research Group. One of the longest-running trends in IT – moving to the cloud – has been turbocharged, driven in part by a pandemic that pushed enterprises to avoid the logistical challenges and capital […]