Tag: Google Cloud
The Big Cloud Data Boom Gets Even Bigger, Thanks to COVID-19
Public clouds were gaining momentum before COVID-19. Now, nearly eight weeks into the pandemic and associated shutdown of work and play, clouds are gaining even more ground as companies scramble to virtualize as much of Read more…
Google, Splunk Partner on Multi-Cloud Data
As cloud vendors seek to reduce data movement as a way of preserving network bandwidth and computing resources, they are also promoting greater cloud access to “holistic” data sets spawned by the increasing number of Read more…
Google Enters Data Catalog Business, Updates BigQuery
Google today rolled out a data catalog that will eventually give customers visibility into all of their data assets in the Google Cloud and beyond. It also bolstered BigQuery with support for materialized views and a new Read more…
Google Adds In-Memory BI Option to BigQuery
Response times for interactive queries in Google BigQuery are about to get better thanks to a new in-memory BI option added by the Web giant. Google is also adding a new migration service for moving data from AWS S3 and Read more…
Tick Data Comes to BigQuery
A huge batch of tick data, used by financial traders to track the minimum upward or downward movement of stock prices, has been added to Google Cloud Platform, allowing financial analysts to plug pricing and trading data Read more…
Google Charts Data Stack Overhaul with Kubernetes
Google today announced that its hosted Spark and Hadoop distribution, Cloud Dataproc, can now run on Kubernetes, at least as an alpha. It may not sound particularly groundbreaking. But when you consider the work that wen Read more…
Blurred Storage Lines: Clouds That Appear Like On-Prem
Cloud storage is growing fast as companies look to take advantage of low cost and flexible storage options for terabytes and petabytes of data. But for all the convenience of cloud storage, sometimes it's just better whe Read more…
Google Adds Elastifile to Cloud Storage Mix
Since assuming command at Google Cloud last fall, Thomas Kurian has aggressively pursued acquisitions designed to help differentiate its services as customers roll out their multi-cloud strategies. The ex-Oracle (NYSE Read more…
Celebrating Data Independence
Every company wants the independence to do what they wish with their data. That's one of the first assumptions underlying this whole big data movement. But depending on where and how a business stores its data -- such as Read more…
RavenDB Launches Managed Cloud Service
Organizations that want to run a NoSQL database in the cloud but don't want to worry about managing or tuning the database may want to check out RavenDB Cloud, a new database service unveiled today by RavenDB. RavenDB Read more…
Google Cloud Unveils Slew of New Data Management and Analytics Services
Google today unveiled a handful of new cloud services designed to simplify common tasks in the data analytics workflow, including a beta of a new data integration and ETL service called Cloud Data Fusion, the capability Read more…
Google Extends Olive Branch to Open Source Tech
Google Cloud today announced strategic partnerships with seven prominent providers of big data technologies that will bring those vendors' solutions to the Google Cloud Platform as managed services. The move appears desi Read more…
Google Ups its AI Game
Google Cloud is rolling out an “AI Hub” supplying machine learning content ranging from data pipelines and TensorFlow modules. It also announced a new pipeline component for the Google-backed Kubeflow open-source pro Read more…
Google, KPMG Partner on Cloud Analytics, GDPR Compliance
Google is partnering with consulting firm KPMG International to offer a range of cloud computing, AI and analytics technologies along with assessment and compliance features tied to new European data privacy regulations. Read more…
Google Unleashes TPUs on Cloud ML Engine
As the amount of machine learning training data soars, so too does demand for new tools that will accelerate the process. With that in mind, Google Cloud announced the beta release of a new feature that allows users to s Read more…
Google to Automate Machine Learning with AutoML Service
Organizations that want to get started with machine learning but are intimidated by the cost and complexity – not to mention the difficulty of finding data scientists -- may be interested in a new service Google announ Read more…
Google Cloud Will Assist With March Madness Brackets
With Amazon Web Services maintaining its dominance n the public cloud market, the price wars of the last few years have given way to new ways of competing with the AWS juggernaut as big data, analytics and machine learni Read more…