Google Cloud Next 2018

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,…

GitHub and Google reaffirm partnership with Cloud Build CI/CD tool integration

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…

Dropbox add-on makes it easier to manage Gmail attachments

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 to…

Virtru teams up with Google to bring its end-to-end encryption service to Google Drive

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 Drive will hit a billion users this week

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…

Google is baking machine learning into its BigQuery data warehouse

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…

Google launches a standalone version of Drive for businesses that don’t want the full G Suite

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 —…

Google is making a fast specialized TPU chip for edge devices and a suite of services to support it

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, which…

Google takes on Yubico and builds its own hardware security keys

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 appliance is…

Google brings its search technology to the enterprise

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.…

Google Cloud introduces shielded virtual machines for additional security

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…

Google’s big redesign for Gmail is now generally available for enterprise G Suite customers

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…

Google introduces ‘Context-aware’ identification to supplement traditional logons

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…

Google is rolling out a version of Google Voice for enterprise G Suite customers

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 accelerate…

Google wants Go to become the go-to language for writing cloud apps

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 the…

Figure Eight partners with Google to give AutoML developers better training data

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…

Google is bringing voice commands to Hangouts Meet hardware

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 Next conference…

Google’s Cloud Functions serverless platform is now generally available

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 (CI/CD)…

Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration and delivery platform

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…

Google announces a suite of updates to its contact center tools

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…

Google brings support for custom translations and text categorization to AutoML

Google is announcing a fair number of updates to G Suite at its Next conference today, most of which focus on the user experience. In addition to those, though, the…

Google makes it easier for G Suite admins to investigate security breaches

At its Cloud Next conference, Google today announced that Smart Compose, a new feature in Gmail that essentially autocompletes sentences for you, will become available to all G Suite users…

Google’s Smart Compose is now ready to write emails for G Suite users

You probably don’t want to make grammar errors in your emails (or blog posts), but every now and then, they do slip in. Your standard spell-checking tool won’t catch them…

Google Docs gets an AI grammar checker

Google is hosting its big cloud conference, Google Cloud Next, this morning over at the Moscone center in San Francisco. Obviously it’s not quite as large as its flagship event…

Watch the Google Cloud Next day one keynote live right here

Google is hosting its annual Cloud Next conference in San Francisco this week. With 25,000 developers in attendance, Cloud Next has become the cloud-centric counterpart to Google I/O. A few…

Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene: ‘We’re playing the long game here’

When Google Cloud brought Diane Greene on board at the end of 2015, one of her goals was to expand the division’s partnership network, an approach she found worked quite…

Google Cloud’s partnership network begins paying dividends