Google Cloud bracing itself for solid acquisition round
Google Cloud under the leadership of new CEO Thomas Kurian would go on a takeover path. Insiders suspect that Kurian will use a solid acquisition policy to close the gap between the Google Cloud and competitors Microsoft Azure and AWS.
Thomas Kurian, ex-Oracle, takes over the role of Google Cloud-CE... Read more
Nvidia Tesla T4 beta GPUs available on Google Cloud
Google now offers Tesla T4 CPUs from Nvidia on the Google Cloud Platform. The offer is still in the beta phase.
Google was the first cloud party to make Tesla T4 GPUs available on its platform in November, then still in alpha. The range is now being made more widely available.
The Tesla T4 is availa... Read more
Google to build large data center along A7 in North-Holland
In the coming years there will be a second Google data center in the Netherlands. This data centre will be built along the A7 in the municipality of Hollands Kroon in North Holland. This municipality has issued the necessary environmental permit for this, no decisive objections have been submitted b... Read more
Google Cloud makes art of global storage traffic
Creative minds at Google Cloud have visualized data from storage traffic and transformed it into works of art. In this way, the makers want to make data storage more interesting and create insights for Google Cloud customers by unravelling patterns.
The speed, trajectory and data density of global ... Read more
Hackers distribute trojans via Google Cloud storage
A new corporate email campaign spreads malware in the Google Cloud Storage service. The campaign focuses mainly on financial companies, according to ZDNet. The attack was discovered by investigators from Menlo Labs.
The researchers state that they have been studying the so-called BEC-scam for some t... Read more
Google adds new features to Cloud Spanner database
Google has added a new region and new ways to set up multi-region configurations to Cloud Spanner. Cloud Spanner is a globally distributed relational database service. The service will also have a new function that will give developers deeper insights into the queries that consume the most recourses... Read more
Google makes beta version of Cloud Security Command Center available
On Wednesday, Google announced that the Cloud Security Command Center (Cloud SCC) is now available in a beta version for all Google Cloud Platform customers. This was announced in March and is a tool that should give companies more insight into the status of their data security in various Google Clo... Read more
“AWS is still the undisputed market leader when it comes to public cloud.
AWS continues to lead the market when it comes to public cloud platforms, according to Synergy Research researchers in their latest quarterly survey of the power distributions in this market. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service are the most popular services for this.
Accordi... Read more
Former Oracle leader Thomas Kurian becomes head of Google Cloud
Thomas Kurian, who left Oracle in September, will be the new head of Google Cloud. At his previous employer, he was also responsible for the cloud activities. Kurian succeeds Diane Greene, she announced Friday. She was at the helm of Google Cloud for three years.
Greene will stay on as CEO of Google... Read more
Google rolls out managed IT automation service Cloud Scheduler
Google has launched Cloud Scheduler, a new automation service for its public cloud. This allows companies to carry out their maintenance and other technical operations at preset intervals.
Cloud Scheduler is a managed implementation of Cron, an open source tool that is used in databases and WordPres... Read more