Google Cloud Platform

Google throws down gauntlet with first compute instances powered by AmpereOne chips

Interview Though this is still a preview so another provider could swing it

Systems30 Aug 2023 | 1

Google sharpens AI toolset with new chips, GPUs, more at Cloud Next

Cloud Next TPU v5e, A3 VMs, and GKE Enterprise headline first in-person shindig since pandemic

Cloud Infrastructure Week29 Aug 2023 |

Microsoft still prohibits Google or Alibaba from running O365 Windows Apps

Almost a month after AWS concession, Redmond keeping mum on reason for locking rivals out

PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2023 | 40

Microsoft India poaches former AWS India boss Puneet Chandok

Current boss bails for unspecified non-tech gig

Software02 Aug 2023 |

AWS and Azure own lion's share of $120B cloud infrastructure market

China's Alibaba comes in third followed by Google and Huawei

PaaS + IaaS18 Jul 2023 | 2

Infosec watchers: TeamTNT crew may blast holes in Azure, Google Cloud users

Why limit yourself to only stealing AWS credentials?

Cyber-crime15 Jul 2023 |

Lucky backup might save 100 days of data for InfluxData's GCP Belgium users

Updated AWS Sydney users less fortunate – the backup was deleted

Databases14 Jul 2023 | 9

Microsoft to hike prices in Australia and New Zealand

Asia In Brief ALSO: Google Cloud extends support in Korean and Mandarin; Cambodia lashes Meta; MSFT India boss bails; and more

Systems10 Jul 2023 | 3

Google shows cloud customers it's happy to have an open relationship

You can play the field and Chocolate Factory won't throw your stuff out

PaaS + IaaS02 Jun 2023 | 1

Google veep calls out Microsoft's cloud software licensing 'tax'

Exclusive Watchdogs are 'starting to understand the situation,' exec tells El Reg

Off-Prem01 Jun 2023 | 53

Google Cloud upgrades with next-gen accelerator that embiggens its VMs

Homebrew Infrastructure Processing Unit virtualizes networks and storage to make Sapphire Rapids Xeons sing

Off-Prem23 May 2023 | 1

Google Cloud's watery Parisian outage enters third week, with no end in sight

To make matters worse, other bits of the same region have wobbled

Networks10 May 2023 | 20

Google Cloud makes its first profit, 15 years after launching

Alphabet finds $1.6 billion of benefits by sweating its servers and networks for longer

Off-Prem26 Apr 2023 | 9

Cloud projects keep being postponed amid economic uncertainty

OVH joins AWS, Microsoft and others in saying customer deals not dead... they're just resting

CxO19 Apr 2023 | 3

Ofcom tempted to bring in competition watchdog to sniff the UK cloud market

As much as 80% in the hands of three companies – you can guess which

PaaS + IaaS05 Apr 2023 | 8

Google Cloud pitches 'Gen Apps' – low-code AI-based tools, not post-millennial kids

We've got your summarization, your Q&A, your chatbots, your classification tasks ready to go

Off-Prem30 Mar 2023 | 7

You just gonna take that AWS? Let Microsoft school your users on cloud security?

And Google Cloud is next

CSO21 Mar 2023 | 3

Google Cloud's US-East load balancers are lousy with latency

Monday morning rush job, anyone? Asking 'cos there's no ETA for a fix other than moving to another region

Off-Prem20 Mar 2023 | 11

Cloud, datacenter vendors muscle in on traditional telco territory at MWC

Join us in the 'new world of opportunity' says GSMA chief

Networks28 Feb 2023 | 1

Google staff asked to share desk space in latest cost purge

From free massage therapy and on-site gyms to alternating desk days with fellow Googlers

SaaS23 Feb 2023 | 57

Taking notes from AWS, Google prepares custom Arm server chips of its own

Aim of the game is to match Intel and AMD on performance

Systems14 Feb 2023 | 11

Uber strikes deals with Google and Oracle to cut datacenter dependence

Ride-hailing biz 'modernizes infrastructure' by using someone else's computer

PaaS + IaaS14 Feb 2023 | 7

Wow, turns out cloud sales can slow down – eh, Amazon, Google?

As tech giants 'optimize' workforces, world optimizes amount of money it spends on computing services

PaaS + IaaS03 Feb 2023 | 13

Bill shock? The red ink of web services doesn’t come out of the blue

Opinion To avoid cloudy judgement, heed the weather forecast

PaaS + IaaS23 Jan 2023 | 29

Pentagon shares nine billion cloudy dollars between AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle

Begun, the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability has. Ended, the Sequel to JEDI has

PaaS + IaaS08 Dec 2022 | 7

Aviatrix releases tool to help enterprises prevent cloud network costs spiraling

Just as providers prepare to crank up their fees

Networks03 Nov 2022 | 1

Economic headwinds be damned, cloud migrations 'not stopping'

Don't listen to the claims of slowing growth – Gartner has the lowdown

Off-Prem31 Oct 2022 | 5

Larry Ellison fought internal battle to kill Oracle's first-generation cloud

But Gen 2 faces an uphill battle in market share and technology

PaaS + IaaS24 Oct 2022 | 11

Microsoft said to be in talks to invest more in OpenAI

Software giant is already in deep, giving the startup $1 billion in 2019

AI + ML21 Oct 2022 | 3

UBS throws lot in with Microsoft, migrating 50% of apps to Azure

Five-year blueprint to modernize tech estate, but cloud still not for everyone in finance sector

PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2022 | 10

UK launches competition probe into cloud giants in digital services

All right, what's all this, then? Three of you, are there?

PaaS + IaaS22 Sep 2022 | 9

Google previews streaming connector for BigQuery

All your data on one platform, opines the Chocolate Factory

Databases16 Sep 2022 | 2

Remember when Microsoft was going to put Azure in space? It's still trying

'Cloud connectivity' hits different this time

Networks14 Sep 2022 | 4

Google shuts off IoT Core services shortly after announcing API stability commitments

Customers could be better off with specialist providers and service partners, Chocolate Factory decides

Applications19 Aug 2022 | 40

Discord details how it dodged latency with a super-disk made in the cloud

For when a GCP Local SSD is just not quite reliable enough

Systems16 Aug 2022 | 11

Microsoft Azure cloud region settles over desert in Doha, Qatar

Opening was delayed during that pandemic thing

Systems16 Aug 2022 | 13

Google Cloud expands to Thailand, Malaysia and New Zealand

Hopes to tap expected growth as it levels up to match rivals' presences

Off-Prem10 Aug 2022 |

Google: We had to shut down a datacenter to save it during London’s heatwave

Can't say what caused cooling failure, admits to re-routing traffic away from working resources

Off-Prem01 Aug 2022 | 46

Google Cloud growth slows, losses grow, bosses unworried

Server spend surges across Alphabet’s empire

Off-Prem27 Jul 2022 | 17

Google, Oracle clouds still affected by UK heatwave

Some hard disks appear to have cooked, along with bit barn designers' best laid plans

Off-Prem20 Jul 2022 | 22

Google, Oracle cloud servers wilt in UK heatwave, take down websites

Clouds burst as nation hits 40C

Off-Prem19 Jul 2022 | 66

Arm in the cloud definitely a trend now with Google Cloud’s embrace

Comment Six of the world’s largest cloud service providers head on out with Arm arch

PaaS + IaaS14 Jul 2022 |

Vodafone picks Google for MLops project that self-serves models in minutes

Teradata, Oracle Cloud still play a role in carrier's data-wrangling plans

AI + ML07 Jul 2022 |

AWS adds bare metal support to EKS Anywhere

And throws some cold water on the 'K8s works best inside a VM' argument

On-Prem01 Jul 2022 | 3

$6b mega contract electronics vendor Sanmina jumps into zero trust

Company was an early adopter of Google Cloud, which led to a search for a new security architecture

CSO23 Jun 2022 | 1

Google recasts Anthos with hitch to AWS Outposts

If at first you don't succeed, change names and try again

On-Prem17 Jun 2022 | 1

Google calculates Pi to 100 trillion digits

Claims world record run took 157 days, 23 hours … and just one Debian server

Off-Prem09 Jun 2022 | 119

Transport giant picks up Google Cloud AI to aid package delivery, tracking

When an exec asked for help tackling supply-chain woes, were they told to 'just Google it' or what?

AI + ML06 Jun 2022 | 1

Algorithm spots 104 asteroids in huge piles of data

Rocks stood out like a THOR thumb for code

Science01 Jun 2022 | 13

Google picks business chiefs for European Advisory Board

A sign that the company is taking data sovereignty concerns more seriously

PaaS + IaaS23 May 2022 |

Alibaba Cloud adds third datacenter in Germany

More Euro-presence than any other Chinese company, but still nowhere near Google or AWS

PaaS + IaaS17 May 2022 | 1

Google Cloud hopes to woo factories with its usual fare: Analytics and AI

A different kind of assembly language

AI + ML06 May 2022 | 3

Cloud a three-player market dominated by AWS, Google, Microsoft

Big three’s market share now at 65 percent almost everywhere outside China

PaaS + IaaS02 May 2022 | 4

Q1 cloud growth lifts AWS, Azure, and Google

34% jump shows smaller businesses are catching on and driving investment, says Canalys

PaaS + IaaS29 Apr 2022 | 2

Google Cloud sees storm brewing over API security

Strap in, we're on a tour from zero trust to chatty digital assistants

Applications26 Apr 2022 | 2

CAST AI puts out report on extent of enterprises cloud resource overspend

Tool relies on platform getting everything right in real time, cautions analyst

PaaS + IaaS25 Apr 2022 | 3