Tetrate, a company bringing commercial services and support to the open source projects –Istio and Envoy — providing network management functions for the microservices that make up modern mobile applications, has launched with $12.1 million in new financing. The company, founded by top engineers at Google who started the Istio project, raised its initial financing […]
View More Tetrate nets $12.1 million to bring microservices to the corporate massesCategory: google cloud
Google doubles down on its Asylo confidential computing framework
Last May, Google introduced Asylo, an open source framework for confidential computing, a technique favored by many of the big cloud vendors because it allows you to set up trusted execution environments that are shielded from the rest of the (potentially untrusted) system. Workloads and their data basically sit in a trusted enclave that adds […]
View More Google doubles down on its Asylo confidential computing frameworkGoogle’s Cloud Firestore NoSQL database hits general availability
Google today announced that Cloud Firestore, its serverless NoSQL document database for mobile, web and IoT apps, is now generally available. In addition, Google is also introducing a few new features and bringing the service to ten new regions. With this launch, Google is giving developers the option to run their databases in a single […]
View More Google’s Cloud Firestore NoSQL database hits general availabilityGoogle’s Cloud Spanner database adds new features and regions
Cloud Spanner, Google’s globally distributed relational database service, is getting a bit more distributed today with the launch of a new region and new ways to set up multi-region configurations. The service is also getting a new feature that gives developers deeper insights into their most resource-consuming queries. With this update, Google is adding to […]
View More Google’s Cloud Spanner database adds new features and regionsGoogle hits pause on selling facial recognition tech over abuse fears
The ethical dilemma swirling around facial recognition technology has prompted Google to hit pause on selling its own system to the public.
On Thursday, Google’s Cloud business said it was holding off on offering a facial recognition system for gener…
Google looks to former Oracle exec Thomas Kurian to move cloud business along
Diane Greene announced on Friday that she was stepping down after three years running Google’s cloud business. She will stay on until the first of the year to help her successor, Thomas Kurian in the transition. He left Oracle at the end of September after more than 20 years with the company, and is charged with making Google’s […]
View More Google looks to former Oracle exec Thomas Kurian to move cloud business alongFormer Oracle exec Thomas Kurian to replace Diane Greene as head of Google Cloud
Diane Greene announced in a blog post today that she would be stepping down as CEO of Google Cloud and will be helping transition former Oracle executive Thomas Kurian to take over early next year. Greene took over the position almost exactly three years ago when Google bought Bebop, the startup she was running. The […]
View More Former Oracle exec Thomas Kurian to replace Diane Greene as head of Google CloudGoogle launches Cloud Scheduler, a managed cron service
Google Cloud is getting a managed cron service for running batch jobs. Cloud Scheduler, as the new service is called, provides all the functionality of the kind of standard command-line cron service you probably love to hate, but with the reliability and ease of use of running a managed service in the cloud. The targets […]
View More Google launches Cloud Scheduler, a managed cron serviceGoogle launches Cloud Scheduler, a managed cron service
Google Cloud is getting a managed cron service for running batch jobs. Cloud Scheduler, as the new service is called, provides all the functionality of the kind of standard command-line cron service you probably love to hate, but with the reliability and ease of use of running a managed service in the cloud. The targets […]
View More Google launches Cloud Scheduler, a managed cron serviceThe Istio service mesh hits version 1.0
Istio, the service mesh for microservices from Google, IBM, Lyft, Red Hat and many other players in the open-source community, launched version 1.0 of its tools today. If you’re not into service meshes, that’s understandable. Few people are. But Istio is probably one of the most important new open-source projects out there right now. It […]
View More The Istio service mesh hits version 1.0Amazon’s AWS continues to lead its performance highlights
Amazon’s web services AWS continue to be the highlight of the company’s balance sheet, once again showing the kind of growth Amazon is looking for in a new business for the second quarter — especially one that has dramatically better margins than its core retail business. Despite now running a grocery chain, the company’s AWS […]
View More Amazon’s AWS continues to lead its performance highlightsGoogle 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 week