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Google Cloud And Facebook To Benefit From ‘Highest Capacity’ Transpacific Cable
Google and Facebook invest in new subsea cable between Los Angeles and Hong Kong
Google Apps For Work Becomes the Machine Learning-Powered G Suite
Google says its intelligent apps can save workers time and make them more productive thanks to a decade of AI research
Rebranded Google Cloud Takes On AWS, Azure With New Features And UK Data Centres
Google brings all its cloud services under the Google Cloud brand as it targets businesses - and AWS and Azure
Report: Google Could Win PayPal Cloud Business
Sources claim Google is fending off AWS and Azure to sign up PayPal as cloud customer
Google’s Made Its Biggest Move Yet For OpenStack Users
Google has worked with Mirantis and Intel to enable OpenStack on Kubernetes
MongoDB Launches Atlas Cloud Database As A Service
Atlas provides complete pay-per-hour infrastructure and management cloud tools over AWS, Azure and Google
Google Apologises For Global Cloud Outage
Compute Engine bug rerouted all incoming global traffic for 18 minutes
Can Public Cloud Truly Meet The Data Demands Of Enterprises?
Vendors such as Google, Microsoft and Oracle are increasingly bending to give customers public cloud in their own data centres, but will it ever be suitable for everyone?
How To Break Into A Google Data Centre
Google lifts the lid on its data centre security, revealing laser beam security and biometric verification for employees
Om Malik’s Plea For Cloud Transparency Makes Perfect Sense
Blog: It's time for cloud leaders to start reporting with useful and better metrics, writes GigaOM founder Om Malik. We agree.
Spotify Ends Data Centre Foray With Google Cloud Deal
Spotify signals the end of its own data centre programme with move to the Google Cloud Platform
Google Kickstarts Its Own Content Delivery Network
Google's Cloud CDN goes into Alpha testing as web giant races to catch up with AWS, Microsoft data centre rollouts
Google Hires VMware Co Founder Diane Greene As New Cloud Head
Diane Greene will head up Google's cloud efforts as it seeks to make greater impact on business market
Google Expands Cloud Launcher With New Partners
Google—on the same day that it formally became part of Alphabet Inc.—announced plans to expand Cloud Launcher by collaborating with new partners
Google Launches US East Coast Cloud Region
US-east1 region is opened to give East Coast Google customers lower latency and better options for disaster recovery
Google Launches Service For Managing Hadoop, Spark Clusters
Cloud Dataproc will make it easier to administer and manage clusters, the company says
Google, Amazon Tussle For Tata Communications’ Data Centre Business
Google and Amazon amongst potential buyers in £450m data centre deal that would boost presence in giant Indian emerging cloud market
Google Joins OpenStack In Massive Cloud War Offensive
Google pledges support for OpenStack Foundation, vows to help push container technology whilst scooping up precious enterprise cloud customers
Google Cloud Now Supports Windows Server
Google Compute Engine extends Windows Server support to 'general availability, hoping to attract enterprise customers
Google Launches Mobile App For Managing Cloud Resources
The Google Cloud Console app for Android and iOS will let administrators use mobile devices to view and manage cloud hosted applications
Google Cloud Continues Moore’s Law Price Cuts
VM prices cut by up to 30 percent, “it’s easy to see why we’re leading the industry in price/performance”, shouts Google Cloud
AWS: Bigger Than Google, Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce Put Together
First quarter analysis shows AWS growth massive, but Microsoft leads in revenue boom
Amazon Web Services Makes £1 Billion First Quarter Revenue
E-commerce giant finally reveals massive Amazon Web Services public cloud earnings for the first quarter of 2015
What To Expect From AWS’ First Ever Public Financial Results
First quarter results from Amazon will be the first to reveal specific revenues from its public cloud business AWS
Google Upgrades Cloud Platform To Deliver Faster, More Secure Services
Google adds new load balancers to reduce network latency and offers more options for secure cloud service connectivity
HP Admits It Can’t Compete ‘Head-To-Head’ With Big Public Cloud Players
BLOG: Helion Cloud head says it makes no sense for HP to compete against Amazon
Google Cloud Splutters Offline For Two Hours
Compute Engine suffers overnight downtime in multiple zones taking down Google Cloud
Amazon, Watch Out – Microsoft Has The Fastest-Growing Cloud
But can it ever threaten Amazon’s 30 percent global market share?
VMware Adds Essential Google Cloud Services To vCloud Air
It's a win for both parties with Google getting delivered to enterprise crowd and VMware getting hybrid serious with quality services