Google introduced on-demand pricing for it's cloud, which slashes current prices and ensures that cloud pricing is more consistent with price drops in hardware. The company also introduced and demoed a slew of new features, including a seamless...

Google is planning to expand its data center footprint in Dublin, Ireland with a new $200 million facility, according to reports in the Irish press. The project continues the building boom in the western outskirts of Dublin.

This week in San Francisco the VMware Partner Exchange 2014 brought out thousands to network, learn about best practices and new VMware (VMW) solutions - and to 'master the new reality' of IT.

Google's massive global network had a humble start in 1999 in a small cage inside an Exodus data center in Santa Clara. Urs Hölzle and Sergey Brin share reminiscences.

Google continues to pump big bucks into its data center operations, investing a massive $7.35 billion in capital expenditures in its Internet infrastructure during 2013.

So how does a widely-used app like Gmail go down, as it has today? There have been a number of Gmail outages over the years, usually involving software updates or networking issues.

Google purchased the total output of power from 4 more wind farms to power its Hamina, Finland data center. The Hamina facility is one of the most efficient data centers in the world, and it will run on 100 percent renewable energy beginning 2015.