Google Cloud Platform

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

Google Cloud launches exclusive AI management platform

Prevision.io wants to 'democratize machine learning innovation' for smaller organizations

AI + ML19 Apr 2022 | 3

Google's plan to win the cloud war hinges on its security aspirations

Interview VP Sunil Potti talks strategy with The Register

PaaS + IaaS19 Apr 2022 | 22

Google's on-prem edge gear to challenge AWS Outposts

Web giant's racks and appliances now generally available

Edge + IoT04 Apr 2022 |

Google introduces new Cloud infrastructure pricing

New, in this case, meaning generally more expensive

Off-Prem14 Mar 2022 | 11

Azure pulls in front of AWS in public cloud adoption

It's close as Microsoft finds favor with surveyed enterprise IT pros

Off-Prem09 Mar 2022 | 13

£5bn up for grabs in UK govt G-Cloud 13 framework

Latest iteration of procurement in model dating back to 2011, how has that cloud first policy gone?

Off-Prem09 Mar 2022 | 3

Microsoft adds GCP to Defender for Cloud

And let me clue you in: I am the one who CloudKnox

Security23 Feb 2022 |

AMD, DoiT to help Google Cloud customers optimize for Epyc

Pair promise to provide the tools to achieve peak Zen

PaaS + IaaS17 Feb 2022 | 3

Google Cloud takes a gap year. It may come back with very different ideas

Opinion Twelve months without refreshment can break an addiction

PaaS + IaaS07 Feb 2022 | 12

Google Cloud started running its servers for an extra year, still loses billions

Parent company Alphabet hails first year of revenue above $250B

PaaS + IaaS02 Feb 2022 | 47

UK regulators to scrutinise cloud resilience in response to financial services sector's reliance on the fluffy stuff

Bank of England watchdog seeks 'more oversight' into 'critical third parties', eyes up outages and cyber attacks

PaaS + IaaS11 Jan 2022 | 17

US Government Accountability Office explains why it sustained Microsoft's protests over $10bn NSA contract

Not so much JEDI lightsabers, more magic WANDS

Off-Prem15 Dec 2021 | 6

WTF is a 'software-defined community cloud'?

Basically a slice of public cloud with better isolation and governance – just like our cloud, says Google

Off-Prem10 Dec 2021 | 5

Ubuntu Pro arrives in premium form on Google's Cloud

Lengthy support for enterprises that prefer things just so

Software14 Jun 2021 | 4

AWS Free Tier, where's your spending limit? 'I thought I deleted everything but I have been charged $200'

Analysis Amazon's cloud arm criticised by users facing unexpected bills

PaaS + IaaS28 May 2021 | 86

Keeping track of one cloud provider's data products is a 'full-time job' so forget mixing and matching, says Gartner

Multi-cloud for data is too complicated

Off-Prem19 May 2021 | 7

Google Cloud and SpaceX buddy up to fling edgy data and cloud services via Starlink

Sign-ups open in second half of 2021

Off-Prem13 May 2021 | 4

X.Org says it's saving a packet with Packet after migrating freedesktop.org off Google Kubernetes Engine

The hidden cost of multi-cloud, and how full open source reduces lock-in

Applications01 Apr 2021 | 16

Google’s site reliability senseis offer to train you in their mystical ways

Only for Google cloud customers, and The Chocolate Factory will need 'deep familiarity with your workloads’

Off-Prem15 Mar 2021 | 7

Survey: Techies reckon open sourcery has better prospects than familiarity with a single vendor's cloud wares

Dodging lock-in good for the career as well as the soul

Off-Prem10 Feb 2021 | 20

Google's cloud pulls out in front for best performance overall, while AWS remains most cost-efficient – report

Azure wins on Ultra Disk storage but it's expensive, says Cockroach Labs

SaaS20 Jan 2021 | 7

A flurry of data warehouse activity surrounds Snowflake's staggering $120bn valuation

Analysis Firebolt says it can do it better while the cloud giants talk up services tweaks

Storage15 Dec 2020 | 9

Google Cloud (over)Run: How a free trial experiment ended with a $72,000 bill overnight

Billing budget? Free plan? All useless when buggy code went into overdrive

SaaS10 Dec 2020 | 116

75% of databases to be cloud-hosted by 2022, says Gartner while dishing on the weak points of each provider

AWS 'reluctant to embrace a multicloud world' but Azure 'often more expensive than on-premises'

Databases02 Dec 2020 | 28

Nokia snuggles up with Google Cloud as it aims to switch off on-prem servers within next two years

Yep, there it is. 'Digital transformation'

SaaS14 Oct 2020 | 5

Why cloud costs get out of control: Too much lift and shift, and pricing that is 'screwy and broken'

Feature The Reg talks to the experts about how to manage spend

SaaS03 Sep 2020 | 61