Google Cloud Next 2018
GitHub and Google reaffirm partnership with Cloud Build CI/CD tool integration
When Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion smackeroos in June, it sent some shock waves through the developer community as it is a key code repository. Google certainly took notice, but the two c
Dropbox add-on makes it easier to manage Gmail attachments
When Dropbox announced it was integrating its storage product with GSuite in March, it was more of a heads up that the two companies were working together. Today at Google Next, Dropbox announced a ne
Virtru teams up with Google to bring its end-to-end encryption service to Google Drive
Virtru, which is best known for its email encryption service for both enterprises and consumers, is announcing a partnership with Google today that will bring the company’s encryption technology
Google Drive will hit a billion users this week
Google loves to talk about how it has seven products with more than a billion users. Those are its flagship search service, Gmail, Chrome, Google Maps, YouTube, Android and the Google Play Store. Inde
Google is baking machine learning into its BigQuery data warehouse
There are still a lot of obstacles to building machine learning models and one of those is that in order to build those models, developers often have to move a lot of data back and forth between their
Google launches a standalone version of Drive for businesses that don’t want the full G Suite
If you are a business and want to use Google Drive, then your only option until now was to buy a full G Suite subscription, even if you don’t want or need access to the rest of the company’
Google is making a fast specialized TPU chip for edge devices and a suite of services to support it
In a pretty substantial move into trying to own the entire AI stack, Google today announced that it will be rolling out a version of its Tensor Processing Unit — a custom chip optimized for its mach
Google takes on Yubico and builds its own hardware security keys
Google today announced it is launching its own hardware security keys for two-factor authentication. These so-called Titan Security Keys will go up against similar keys from companies like Yubico, whi
Google brings its search technology to the enterprise
One of Google’s first hardware products was its search appliance, a custom-built server that allowed businesses to bring Google’s search tools to the data behind their firewalls. That appl
Google Cloud introduces shielded virtual machines for additional security
While we might like to think all of our applications are equal in our eyes, in reality some are more important than others and require an additional level of security. To meet those requirements, Goog
Google’s big redesign for Gmail is now generally available for enterprise G Suite customers
Google is running its playbook again of releasing big new products (or redesigns) to its average users and then moving what works over to its enterprise services, G Suite, today by making the Gmail re
Google introduces ‘Context-aware’ identification to supplement traditional logons
We know by now that usernames and passwords are a poor way of securing applications and online services, but they remain for the most part a key tool in the security arsenal. The trouble is that with
Google is rolling out a version of Google Voice for enterprise G Suite customers
Google today said it will be rolling out an enterprise version of its Google Voice service for G Suite users, potentially tapping a new demand source for Google that could help attract a whole host of
Google wants Go to become the go-to language for writing cloud apps
The Google-incubated Go language is one of the fastest growing programming languages today, with about one million active developers using it worldwide. But the company believes it can still accelerat
Figure Eight partners with Google to give AutoML developers better training data
Figure Eight, a platform that helps developers train, test and fine-tune their machine learning models, today announced a major new collaboration with Google that essentially turns Figure Eight into t
Google is bringing voice commands to Hangouts Meet hardware
Today at the Google Next conference in San Francisco, the company announced it would soon be enhancing Google meeting hardware to allow voice commands. For many people setting up meetings remains a ma
Google’s Cloud Functions serverless platform is now generally available
Cloud Functions, Google’s serverless platform that competes directly with tools like AWS Lambda and Azure Functions from Microsoft, is now generally available, the company announced at its Cloud
Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration and delivery platform
It used to be that developers built applications with long lead times and development cycles. There was always plenty of time to prepare, but in today’s continuous delivery/continuous deployment
Google announces a suite of updates to its contact center tools
As Google pushes further and further into enterprise services, it’s looking to leverage what it’s known for — a strong expertise in machine learning — to power some of the most common
Google brings support for custom translations and text categorization to AutoML
Pre-trained machine learning models are good enough for many use cases, but to get the most out of this technology, you need custom models. Given that it’s not exactly easy to get started with m