Google Cloud Platform

When it comes to cloud, it's China against the world

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google dominate the west, but the Middle Kingdom plays by its own rules

Off-Prem21 Aug 2024 | 6

UK competition regulator's cloud probe remedies have global implications

Egress fees? Ticked. Spend discounts? Not yet. Software licensing? Might need to shape up, Microsoft

Cloud Infrastructure Month21 Aug 2024 | 2

Google-commissioned report claims early adopters already enjoying fruits of gen-AI labor

Analysis 43% of the time, it really, really works 45% of the time

AI + ML12 Aug 2024 | 47

Google, Oracle, Microsoft make their case for VMware migrations – HPE on the outer?

New instance types and discounts galore, and Broadcom all smiles as its preferred licensing finds more friends

VMware Explore22 Jul 2024 | 6

Google: We're still working to defeat Microsoft's 'anticompetitive' cloud policy

Yesterday's settlement between MS and Euro cloud providers shouldn't 'fool' you, says Alphabet arm's cloud boss

PaaS + IaaS11 Jul 2024 | 16

Google Cloud shows it can break things for lots of customers – not just one at a time

Deleted about 40 networks that services needed, causing late Thursday fun

Off-Prem20 May 2024 | 29

Google says its 'Trillium' TPUs are ready to power the next-generation of AI models

I/O Promises 4.7x performance boost over its older silicon

Systems14 May 2024 | 4

Google Cloud blunder sinks Australian fund for a week

That pesky 'previously unknown software bug' strikes again

PaaS + IaaS08 May 2024 | 11

Protest group says Google has fired more staff over sit-ins opposing work for Israel

Group of now-ex Googlers say 50 folks have been let go, vow ongoing protests

Off-Prem22 Apr 2024 | 86

Google fires 28 staff after sit-in protest against Israeli cloud deal ends in arrests

Alphabet Workers Union says bosses refuse to listen to concerns

Off-Prem18 Apr 2024 | 95

Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its bills for rented cloudy GPUs

Generative AI darling was on track to pay $99M on compute to generate just $11M in revenues

AI + ML03 Apr 2024 | 22

Companies flush money down the drain with overfed Kubernetes cloud clusters

Just 13% of provisioned CPUs, 20% of memory utilized, study finds

PaaS + IaaS01 Mar 2024 | 13

40k servers, 400k CPUs and 40 PB of storage later... welcome to Google Cloud

Sabre Technology shutters 17 datacenters, says 90% of workloads transferred

PaaS + IaaS27 Feb 2024 | 13

AWS accuses Microsoft of clipping customers' cloud freedoms

World's biggest off-prem service slinger submits comments to UK cloud inquiry, mostly has Redmond HQ's rival in its sights

PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 8

Google submits complaints about Microsoft licensing to UK competition regulator

Now Microsoft has regulator breathing down its neck in three regions

PaaS + IaaS01 Dec 2023 | 7

Google Cloud misses revenue estimates – and it's your fault, wanting smaller bills

Keeping old servers alive is more lucrative than the G-Cloud

Off-Prem25 Oct 2023 | 15

Google offers some copyright indemnity to users of its generative AI services

'If you are challenged, we will assume responsibility'

AI + ML12 Oct 2023 | 8

UK IaaS market: Deeper probe by competition regulator lands soon

Updated Ofcom to refer findings to CMA – which insiders say will home in on egress fees, interoperability and licensing

PaaS + IaaS03 Oct 2023 | 5

Google exec: Microsoft Teams concession 'too little, too late'

If you don't tackle Redmond's abuse of software licensing in rival clouds it'll be game over for innovation, warns Amit Zavery

Cloud Infrastructure Month15 Sep 2023 | 39

Google wants to takes a byte out of Oracle workloads with PostgreSQL migration service

Third-party and bespoke apps most likely candidates for the switch

Databases30 Aug 2023 | 15

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 Month29 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 | 55

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 | 12

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