Cohesity helps companies with better managing secondary data
Of all the data workloads that companies have to deal
with today, only a small portion is really important to have direct access to
them. The rest of the data workloads may cause inconvenience because they are
located throughout the network. This so-called secondary data can, therefore,
best be sto... Read more
Google adds new pricing options to Compute Engine service
Google is changing the way it sets prices for its Compute Engine service to make things "fairer and more transparent. Compute Engine is the Internet giant's basic Infrastructure-as-a-Service service that allows users to run workloads on its physical hardware.
Google says that it is further expandin... Read more
Google Cloud further expands collaboration with Informatica
Google Cloud has expanded its existing partnership with the provider of enterprise cloud data management solutions Informatica. Among other things, Informatica will now offer two hybrid and multi-client solutions through the tech giant's public cloud platform.
More concretely, the collaboration betw... Read more
Google provides GKE with support for Windows Server Containers
Google provides its managed Kubernetes service GKE with an update of support for Windows Server Containers. Improvements were announced during the first day of the KubeCon EU conference, reports ZDNet.
Google will offer the Windows Server Containers in Kubernetes 1.14 on GKE from June. The Kubernete... Read more
Google announces Ice Cold Storage and launches Cloud Filestore
On the last day of Google Cloud Next 19, Google shared some details around new storage solutions with an emphasis on ice cold storage. This class of archived cloud storage is now available after a series of delays.
According to ITProToday, previous generations of cold, deep cold or icy storage tiers... Read more
Google opens sixth European cloud region in Zurich
Google has announced the opening of its sixth European cloud region. This is Zurich in Switzerland, the company's nineteenth cloud region worldwide. The region consists of three availability zones, which means that it consists of three separate data centres, says Silicon Angle.
According to Google,... 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 launches Transfer Appliance to help European companies transfer cloud data
Google today launched a beta test of the European Transfer Appliance program. This is aimed at helping companies to transfer their apps that are still running on legacy infrastructure to Google's own cloud platform.
The servers set up by Google for this purpose can handle large amounts of data. Data... Read more
Google explains how data is actually removed from Cloud Platform
Google today published a comprehensive white paper explaining how it deals with users' requests to remove data from its cloud platform. The company also now shows which processes it goes through to actually delete the data.
Product manager Eric Chiang writes in a blog post that data deletion must be... Read more