Google (Alphabet)

To help Linux maintainers stay ahead of the black hats, Google has funded two full-time Linux security developers.

The cloud provider’s new managed service for the container orchestration engine it created promises customer node management by its own SREs.

AWS, Google and Microsoft are all still growing their cloud revenues, though for Google that growth is coming with some high costs.

Monique Picou will oversee server-floor operations, data center planning, and staffing across Google’s global data center fleet.

The deal will bring Android technology to the automaker’s cars and cloud services to its factory floor.

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM all take different approaches to extending their clouds to customers’ own data centers.

The partners plan to offer solutions for deploying cloud-native network functions across cloud, on-prem, and the edge.