Google expands its cloud regions to Germany
Three new availability zones to become live in coming months in Germany as well as Chile and Saudi Arabia.
Google announced this week that they will be adding to their list of cloud regions over the coming months and years. The tech giant's global network of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) currently... Read more
Google launches Center of Excellence for independent software vendors
Google has launched an excellence centre to cater to indie software vendors and help them benefit fully from its cloud offering. ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) are under pressure from customers who are not happy with merely running apps in the cloud. The cloud may be low-cost with increased ap... Read more
Google Cloud introduces Confidential VMs for enhanced security
Google Cloud has introduced two security solutions, Confidential VMs and Assured Workloads for Government. These solutions aim to improve the protection of sensitive data, especially from public organisations, within (public) cloud environments.
According to Google Cloud, the new solutions are p... Read more
VMware environments now available in Google Cloud
Google Cloud presents the Google Cloud VMware Engine service, which allows developers and administrators to run VMware virtual machines in the Google Cloud. Companies can combine their on-premise VMware environments with Google Cloud.
The tool should enable more efficient migration of VMware wo... Read more
‘Department of Justice is investigating Google’s Looker acquisition’
The first major acquisition of Google Cloud under CEO
Thomas Kurian appears to have gone less than smoothly. U.S. authorities are
said to be investigating the planned acquisition of business intelligence
platform Looker.
Sources who are aware of the investigation report to Bloomberg
that the ant... Read more
Google Cloud increases focus on enterprise, without lock-in
Thomas Kurian is the new leader at Google Cloud. As CEO,
he has to take Google Cloud to the next level. The big question is, of course,
what he will do differently than his predecessors, what he has learned at
Oracle and what he will probably do differently or do the same thing. Two things
are imme... Read more
Google introduces Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory
Google announces that it will provide a managed service for Microsoft Active Directory (AD). The service should make it easier for AD users in the cloud to monitor and manage domain controllers.
AD traditionally runs on on premise servers. Today, more and more companies are migrating more and mor... Read more
Google Cloud Platform now also suitable for VMware workloads
Google Cloud and VMware have partnered, so the cloud service now also supports VMware workloads. This is made possible via a platform managed by CloudSimple.
The new service allows customers to run VMware vSphere based workloads in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). CloudSimple is building a software ... Read more
34 million vulnerabilities found at AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform
Security researchers at Unit 42 claim to have found more than 34 million vulnerabilities with various cloud service providers. The vulnerabilities are in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
The vulnerabilities are described in Unit 42's Cloud Threat Risk Report, cov... Read more
Google simplifies cloud development with Spinnaker for GCP
Google has announced Spinnaker for GCP. With this new solution, the company wants to simplify the work of developers who create cloud applications.
Spinnaker is launched as an open source development toolkit maintained by Netflix and Google, writes Silicon Angle. The toolkit enables software teams t... Read more