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Pentagon: Amazon, Microsoft now in two-horse race for $10B JEDI cloud deal
The race to land a multibillion-dollar Pentagon cloud services contract is now down to Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. after two other competing bids were rejected by U.S. Defense Department officials, Bloomberg reported today. According to Defense Department spokeswoman Elissa Smith, only Amazon and Microsoft meet the “minimum requirements” for its Joint Enterprise Defense ...
Google partners with Fivetran to bring more data to BigQuery
Google LLC teamed up with a little-known company called Fivetran Inc. today to create a new Data Transfer Service for its BigQuery data analytics platform. BigQuery is actually a data warehouse service that’s used to store and analyze extremely large, read-only datasets. It’s hosted on Google’s cloud infrastructure and accesses data via an application program interface, but ...
With Cloud Code, Google aims to speed up cloud-native app development
Google LLC wants developers to build more of their applications in Kubernetes-based containers hosted on its cloud. To encourage that, today it’s introducing a new set of plugins called Google Cloud Code, which allows apps built with Integrated Development Environments such as IntelliJ and Visual Studio Code to be deployed to Kubernetes more easily. IDEs ...
G Suite gets faster, smarter and more collaborative with a mass of new features
Google LLC’s G Suite productivity and collaboration tools have been recognized as a viable alternative to Microsoft Corp.’s Office suite for some time already, but with the software giant clicking again, Google can’t afford to let up in the race to help workers be more productive. That explains why Google today is rolling out what ...
Google steps up its bid to bring AI to the masses
Google LLC’s artificial intelligence tools are already considered to be some of the best in the business, but businesses are always looking for newer and easier ways to apply AI to their applications. With that in mind, Google Cloud today is adding more AI services to its portfolio in addition to a bunch of new ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE NEW HYBRID CLOUD
Cisco expands hybrid and multicloud collaboration with Google
Cisco Systems Inc. is throwing its weight behind Google Cloud’s hybrid cloud services platform, newly rebranded as Anthos. The networking giant is integrating some of its core hardware platforms and software products with Google Cloud’s Anthos, formerly called Cloud Services Platform. It’s all part of a push by Cisco to become more relevant in a ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE NEW HYBRID CLOUD
Google Cloud Run brings serverless infrastructure to software containers
Hoping to steal a march on its bigger cloud computing rivals, Google LLC is shaking up its stack of serverless software that enables developers to building applications in a more automated way. It’s doing so with a new offering called Cloud Run for developers announced today at its Cloud Next conference (pictured) in San Francisco. ...
Google to expand cloud infrastructure with new regions in Seoul and Salt Lake City
Google LLC today said it’s adding to its cloud infrastructure with new data center facilities in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Seoul, South Korea, that will help it scale up its capacity to cater for its growing customer base. The new cloud regions are scheduled to open in early 2020, and will each offer three ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE NEW HYBRID CLOUD
Google brings the cream of open-source software to its cloud
Google LLC today revealed that it’s teaming up with a raft of prominent open-source software companies in a massive expansion of the number of “first class” services available on its public cloud. Opening its annual Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today, the internet giant announced “strategic partnerships” with Confluent Inc., DataStax Inc., Elastic NV, ...
AMD launches its second-generation Ryzen Pro mobile chips
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is keeping up the pressure on rival Intel Corp. with the launch of new additions to its Zen-based microprocessors. The company Monday unveiled its second-generation AMD Ryzen Pro mobile processors, alongside its first batch of Athlon Pro mobile chips. Both families of processors also integrate with AMD’s Radeon Vega graphics chips. ...
