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Google Eyes Multi-Cloud Analytics With Looker Deal
Google Cloud has moved to buttress its position in the booming data analytics sector with its acquisition of data platform and visualization tool vendor Looker. Underscoring a trend among ...Full Article
Google Cloud Goes Global with Nvidia T4 GPUs
Nvidia’s T4 GPUs unveiled earlier this year for accelerating workloads such as AI inference and training are making their “global” debut as cloud instances on Google Cloud. Google (NASDAQ: ...Full Article
Intel, Lenovo Partner with Google on Anthos Cloud
Google is filling out its roster of hardware partners for its new cloud services platform called Anthos as its pushes home-grown technologies like its Kubernetes cluster orchestrator across hybrid ...Full Article
Google Cloud Unveils Roadmap for Intel Optane
Intel’s drive to solidify its stranglehold on the datacenter via its Optane DC persistent memory architecture was on full display this week during the chip maker’s “data-centric” event. Navin ...Full Article
Google Offers Fixed-Price Cloud Storage
Thomas Kurian, who succeeded Diane Greene last November as chief of Google Cloud, has been outspoken about plans to compete more aggressively in the cutthroat public cloud market. ...Full Article
Google Shifts Kubernetes Focus to Datacenters
Google has released a beta version of its cloud platform the incorporates Kubernetes to help build and manage services in hybrid deployments with a particular emphasis on in-house services. ...Full Article
Azure Gains in Multi-Cloud Shift, But Complexity Grows
Microsoft Azure is benefitting most from the growing adoption of multiple cloud vendors, according to recent surveys of enterprise cloud managers. Perhaps the most revealing is an Amazon Web ...Full Article
Google Cloud: CEO Greene out, former Oracle Exec Kurian in
A two-decade veteran of Oracle, Thomas Kurian, will replace Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene, an apparent casualty of public cloud services market competition in which AWS remains tenaciously dominant, ...Full Article
Nvidia Accelerates AI Inference in the Datacenter
Nvidia is bringing AI inference to the datacenter with a new platform consisting of an inference accelerator chip--the new Turing-based T4 GPU--and a refresh of its inference server software ...Full Article
Istio Service Mesh Advances to Production
Istio, the “service mesh” intended to connect application components and thereby boost the capabilities of the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator, has advanced over the past year as a way of ...Full Article
