Author Archives: Frederic Lardinois

Databricks open-sources Delta Lake to make data lakes more reliable

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Databricks, the company founded by the original developers of the Apache Spark big data analytics engine, today announced that it has open-sourced Delta Lake, a storage layer that makes it easier to ensure data integrity as new data flows into an enterprise’s data lake by bringing ACID transactions to these vast data repositories. Delta Lake, […] Continue reading Databricks open-sources Delta Lake to make data lakes more reliable→

CloudBees acquires Electric Cloud to build out its software delivery management platform

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CloudBees, the enterprise continuous integration and delivery service (and the biggest contributor to the Jenkins open-source automation server), today announced that it has acquired Electric Cloud, a continuous delivery and automation platform that first launched all the way back in 2002. The two companies did not disclose the price of the acquisition, but CloudBees has […] Continue reading CloudBees acquires Electric Cloud to build out its software delivery management platform→

Google Cloud brings on 27-year SAP veteran as it doubles down on enterprise adoption

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Thomas Kurian, the newly-minted CEO of Google Cloud, used the company’s Cloud Next conference last week to lay out his vision for the future of Google’s cloud computing platform. That vision involves, in part, a hiring spree to give businesses that want to work with Google more people to talk to and get help from. […] Continue reading Google Cloud brings on 27-year SAP veteran as it doubles down on enterprise adoption→

Google expands its container service with GKE Advanced

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With its Kuberntes Engine (GKE), Google Cloud Google has long offered a managed service for running containers on its platform. Kubernetes users tend to have a variety of needs, but so far, Google only offered a single tier of GKE that wasn’t necessarily geared toward the high-end enterprise users the company is trying to woo. […] Continue reading Google expands its container service with GKE Advanced→

OpenStack Stein launches with improved Kubernetes support

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The OpenStack project, which powers more than 75 public and thousands of private clouds, launched the 19th version of its software this week. You’d think that after 19 updates to the open-source infrastructure platform, there really isn’t all that much new the various project teams could add, given that we’re talking about a rather stable […] Continue reading OpenStack Stein launches with improved Kubernetes support→

With consumer G+ dead, Currents hopes to make waves in the enterprise

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Google today announced that Google+ in G Suite, the last remaining remnants of what was once Google’s attempt to rival Facebook and Twitter, will now be called Currents. We don’t need to belabor the fact that Google+ was a flop and that its death was probably long overdue. We’ve done that. Now it’s time to […] Continue reading With consumer G+ dead, Currents hopes to make waves in the enterprise→

Google launches new security tools for G Suite users

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Google today launched a number of security updates to G Suite, its online productivity and collaboration platform. The focus of these updates is on protecting a company’s data inside G Suite, both through controlling who can access it and through providing new tools for prevening phishing and malware attacks. To do this, Google is announcing […] Continue reading Google launches new security tools for G Suite users→

Google launches its coldest storage service yet

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At its Cloud Next conference, Google today launched a new archival cold storage service. This new service, which doesn’t seem to have a fancy name, will complement the company’s existing Nearline and Coldline services for storing vast amounts of infrequently used data at an affordable low cost. The new archive class takes this one step […] Continue reading Google launches its coldest storage service yet→

Google makes the power of BigQuery available in Sheets

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Google today announced a new services that makes the power of BigQuery, its analytics data warehouse, available in Sheets, its web-based spreadsheet tool. These so-called ‘connected sheets’ face none of the usual limitations of Google’s regular spreadsheets, meaning there are no row limits, for example. Instead, users can take a massive dataset from BigQuery, with […] Continue reading Google makes the power of BigQuery available in Sheets→

What’s left of Google+ is now called Currents

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Google+ for consumers is officially dead, but it’s still alive for enterprise users. Only a few days after completely shutting down the public version of Google+, Google today announced that it is giving the enterprise version a new name. It’s now called Currents. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because Google once offered another service […] Continue reading What’s left of Google+ is now called Currents→