When Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion smackeroos in June, it sent some shock waves through the developer community as it is a key code repository. Google certainly took notice, but the two companies continue to work closely together. Today at Google Next, they announced an expansion of their partnership around Google’s new CI/CD tool, […]
View More GitHub and Google reaffirm partnership with Cloud Build CI/CD tool integrationCategory: Google Cloud Next 2018
Dropbox add-on makes it easier to manage Gmail attachments
When Dropbox announced it was integrating its storage product with GSuite in March, it was more of a heads up that the two companies were working together. Today at Google Next, Dropbox announced a new add-on to manage Gmail attachments in Dropbox. Ketan Nayak, a product manager at Dropbox says this is the first concrete […]
View More Dropbox add-on makes it easier to manage Gmail attachmentsVirtu teams up with Google to bring its end-to-end encryption service to Google Drive
Virtu, which is best known for its email encryption service for both enterprises and consumers, is announcing a partnership with Google today that will bring the company’s encryption technology to Google Drive. Only a few years ago, the company was still bolting its solution on top of Gmail without Google’s blessing, but these days, Google […]
View More Virtu teams up with Google to bring its end-to-end encryption service to Google DriveGoogle Drive will hit a billion users this week
Google loves to talk about how it has seven products with more than a billion users. Those are its flagship search service, Gmail, Chrome, Google Maps, YouTube, Android and the Google Play Store. Indeed, Android actually has more than 2 billion users now. Later this week, we will be able to add an eighth service […]
View More Google Drive will hit a billion users this weekGoogle is baking machine learning into its BigQuery data warehouse
There are still a lot of obstacles to building machine learning models and one of those is that in order to build those models, developers often have to move a lot of data back and forth between their data warehouses and wherever they are building their models. Google is now making this part of the […]
View More Google is baking machine learning into its BigQuery data warehouseGoogle launches a standalone version of Drive for businesses that don’t want the full G Suite
If you are a business and want to use Google Drive, then your only option until now was to buy a full G Suite subscription, even if you don’t want or need access to the rest of the company’s productivity tools. Starting today, though, these businesses will be able to buy a subscription to a […]
View More Google launches a standalone version of Drive for businesses that don’t want the full G SuiteGoogle is making a fast specialized TPU chip for edge devices and a suite of services to support it
In a pretty substantial move into trying to own the entire AI stack, Google today announced that it will be rolling out a version of its Tensor Processing Unit — a custom chip optimized for its machine learning framework TensorFlow — optimized for inference in edge devices. That’s a bit of a word salad to […]
View More Google is making a fast specialized TPU chip for edge devices and a suite of services to support itGoogle takes on Yubico and builds its own hardware security keys
Google today announced it is launching its own hardware security keys for two-factor authentication. These so-called Titan Security Keys will go up against similar keys from companies like Yubico, which Google has long championed as the de facto standard for hardware-based two-factor authentication for Gmail and other services. The FIDO-compatible Titan keys will come in […]
View More Google takes on Yubico and builds its own hardware security keysGoogle brings its search technology to the enterprise
One of Google’s first hardware products was its search appliance, a custom-built server that allowed businesses to bring Google’s search tools to the data behind their firewalls. That appliance is no more, but Google today announced the spiritual successor to it with an update to Cloud Search. Until today, Cloud Search only indexed G Suite […]
View More Google brings its search technology to the enterpriseGoogle Cloud introduces shielded VMs for additional security
While we might like to think all of our applications are equal in our eyes, in reality some are more important than others and require an additional level of security. To meet those requirements, Google introduced shielded virtual machines at Google Next today. As Google describes it, “Shielded VMs leverage advanced platform security capabilities to […]
View More Google Cloud introduces shielded VMs for additional securityGoogle’s big redesign for Gmail is now generally available for enterprise G Suite customers
Google is running its playbook again of releasing big new products (or redesigns) to its average users and then moving what works over to its enterprise services, G Suite, today by making the Gmail redesign generally available to G Suite customers. Gmail’s redesign launched for consumers in April earlier this year, including new features like […]
View More Google’s big redesign for Gmail is now generally available for enterprise G Suite customersGoogle introduces ‘Context-aware’ access to supplement traditional logons
We know by now that usernames and passwords are a poor way of securing applications and online services, but they remain for the most part a key tool in the security arsenal. The trouble is that with all of the security breaches in recent years from Equifax to Anthem to Target (and many others), people’s […]
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