It used to be that developers built applications with long lead times and development cycles. There was always plenty of time to prepare, but in today’s continuous delivery/continuous deployment (CI/CD) world, new versions could be going out every day. That requires a CI/CD framework, and today at Google Next in San Francisco, the company announced […]
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Google Cloud goes all-in on hybrid with its new Cloud Services Platform
The cloud isn’t right for every business, be that because of latency constraints at the edge, regulatory requirements or because it’s simply cheaper to own and operate their own data centers for their specific workloads. Given this, it’s maybe no surprise that the vast majority of enterprises today use both public and private clouds in […]
View More Google Cloud goes all-in on hybrid with its new Cloud Services PlatformWatch the Google Cloud Next day one keynote live right here
Google is hosting its big cloud conference, Google Cloud Next, this morning over at the Moscone center in San Francisco. Obviously it’s not quite as large as its flagship event I/O earlier this year, but Google’s cloud efforts have become one of its brightest points over the past several quarters. With heavy investments in Google […]
View More Watch the Google Cloud Next day one keynote live right hereGoogle Cloud’s partnership network begins paying dividends
When Google Cloud brought Diane Greene on board at the end of 2015, one of her goals was to expand the division’s partnership network, an approach she found worked quite well when she was running VMware in the early 2000s. It appears to be working at Google too. This week at Google Next, the company’s […]
View More Google Cloud’s partnership network begins paying dividendsWith Cloud Filestore, the Google Cloud gets a new storage option
Google is giving developers a new storage option in its cloud. Cloud Filestore, which will launch into beta next month, essentially offers a fully managed network attached storage (NAS) service in the cloud. This means that companies can now easily run applications that need a traditional file system interface on the Google Cloud Platform. Traditionally, […]
View More With Cloud Filestore, the Google Cloud gets a new storage optionGDPR, China, and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for Amazon and Google
The Great Privacy Policy Email Deluge of 2018 may have finally petered out, but we are just starting to build an understanding of who the winners and losers will be in this newly regulated data economy. Most of the attention so far has been focused on the losers post-GDPR, which can be broadly summarized as […]
View More GDPR, China, and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for Amazon and GoogleGoogle to acquire cloud migration startup Velostrata
Google announced today it was going to acquire Israeli cloud migration startup, Velostrata. The companies did not share the purchase price. Velostrata helps companies migrate from on-premises datacenters to the cloud, a common requirement today as companies try to shift more workloads to the cloud. It’s not always a simple matter though to transfer those […]
View More Google to acquire cloud migration startup VelostrataGoogle Kubeflow, machine learning for Kubernetes, begins to take shape
Ever since Google created Kubernetes as an open source container orchestration tool, it has seen it blossom in ways it might never have imagined. As the project gains in popularity, we are seeing many adjunct programs develop. Today, Google announced the release of version 0.1 of the Kubeflow open source tool, which is designed to […]
View More Google Kubeflow, machine learning for Kubernetes, begins to take shapeGoogle Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring helps developers find problems in Kubernetes apps
In the world of DevOps, developers ship code and operations deals with all the managing, monitoring and troubleshooting, but Google Cloud has found that it sometimes it makes more sense to put some of these responsibilities back in the hands of the developers. Today, the company announced the Beta release of Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring, a […]
View More Google Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring helps developers find problems in Kubernetes appsYawn: Amazon cloud business just keeps rolling along
It’s almost becoming boring reporting that the Amazon cloud had a monster quarter. It’s not news at this point, because of course they did. Yesterday, it once again blew away analyst expectations with 49 percent revenue growth for the quarter. Oh ya, and that revenue? Well that was $5.44B for the quarter, a ways above […]
View More Yawn: Amazon cloud business just keeps rolling alongGoogle Cloud expands its bet on managed database services
Google announced a number of updates to its cloud-based database services today. For the most part, we’re not talking about any groundbreaking new products here but all of these updates address specific pain points that enterprises suffer when they move to the cloud. As Google Director of Product Management Dominic Preuss told me ahead of […]
View More Google Cloud expands its bet on managed database servicesGoogle’s latest undersea cable project will connect Japan to Australia
When you’re a company as large as Google, you need to make build versus buy decisions every day, whether that’s buying a company or building the software or renting time on an undersea cable or building your own. Today, the company announced that it’s decided to build another undersea cable. This one will run from […]
View More Google’s latest undersea cable project will connect Japan to Australia