Google Cloud expands file storage service with acquisition Elastifile
Google has taken over storage provider Elastifile. The company provides file storage for enterprise-class applications running on scale in the cloud. According to an anonymous source of CTech, Google would pay 200 million dollars for the acquisition.
With the service of Elastifile it is possible fo... Read more
Google Cloud and Atos together offer HPC servers for Oracle workloads
Google Cloud Platform has partnered with the German company Atos to enable Oracle database users to run their workloads on Google's cloud servers in the near future.
As part of the partnership, Atos adds two high-performance extensions to data centers of the Google Cloud Platform in Ashburn, Virgin... Read more
Security company Chronicle goes together with Google Cloud
Alphabet has announced its enterprise security company Chronicle later this year to merge with Google Cloud, reports CNBC. The security company was founded in January 2018 and comes from X, Alphabet's experimental project lab.
Chronicle launched its first product in March: Backstory. Backstory is a... Read more
Google Cloud makes Deep Learning Containers available as beta
The Google Cloud Platform has made Deep Learning Containers available as a beta. Deep Learning Containers are environments optimized for the deployment and testing of applications and services that use machine learning. The Deep Learning Containers work in the cloud and on premise.
In the future, t... Read more
Google Cloud takes over for 2.6 billion U.S. dollars Looker
Google has announced to take over business intelligence platform Looker for 2.6 billion U.S. dollars (2.3 billion euros). Looker's services must be added to the Internet giant's Cloud platform. The acquisition is intended to close the gap with the solutions of competitors AWS and Microsoft Azure.
L... 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
Citrix expands its Workspace to Google Cloud
Citrix has announced plans to expand its Workspace to Google Cloud. In this way, the flexibility and choice when switching to the cloud should be increased. Citrix announced the news at its Synergy event this week in Atlanta.
Citrix has already launched its solutions for the smart workplace, but sa... 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 and SAP offer HANA Enterprise Cloud as a managed service
Google and SAP are expanding their two-year partnership by offering the HANA Enterprise Cloud as a fully managed service on the cloud of the Internet giant. That's what Silicon Angle reports.
The collaboration between Google and SAP became closer at the beginning of 2017, when some of SAP's most imp... Read more
Cohesity backup solutions are now available via Google Cloud Platform
Cohesity's backup software solutions can now be purchased as a SaaS service via Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Both companies announced this week. This makes it easier for users to purchase and deploy backup services for various workloads from GCP.
The availability of the storage specialist's backup s... Read more