Google (Alphabet)

Private links to public clouds emerge as the glue that holds hybrid clouds together.

New dedicated direct network links to cloud now available at (mostly Equinix) data centers around the world

Pivotal Container Service runs on vSphere and Google Cloud Platform

Data centers these days are busy replacing expensive hardware solutions with “software-defined” everything, but the trend is the opposite when it comes to security. While software still prevails in keeping servers secure, hardware is...

Online games can be compute-intensive, particularly first-person shooters or games with heavy graphics that require a lot of power. But apparently a crossword puzzle can put a strain on cloud architecture, too...

If your application running in Google’s cloud can tolerate lower performance and reliability in exchange for a significant discount on using the infrastructure, you will soon be able to use a lower-cost network tier...

Mark Bergen (Bloomberg) — On May 16, Makani released a YouTube video. A camera pans on a T-shaped airplane, with wings stretching 85 feet holding eight small turbines and a tether connecting it to a tall ground station. The plane swoops into...

Mark Bergen (Bloomberg) — Alphabet Inc.’s secretive X skunk works has another idea that could save the world. This one, code named Malta, involves vats of salt and antifreeze...

Not long after Google Cloud senior vice president Diane Greene said that in the next five years it could overtake Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the top hyperscale cloud provider, Google appears to be making headway on this promise...

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said the company’s subsidiary Google saw “impressive growth” in its public cloud infrastructure services business in the second quarter, illustrated by the number of high-value deals it closed with big...