Author Archives: Frederic Lardinois

Google Cloud goes all-in on hybrid with its new Cloud Services Platform

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The cloud isn’t right for every business, be that because of latency constraints at the edge, regulatory requirements or because it’s simply cheaper to own and operate their own data centers for their specific workloads. Given this, it’s maybe no surprise that the vast majority of enterprises today use both public and private clouds in […] Continue reading Google Cloud goes all-in on hybrid with its new Cloud Services Platform→

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

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Google is hosting its annual Cloud Next conference in San Francisco this week. With 20,000 developers in attendance, Cloud Next has become the cloud-centric counterpart to Google I/O. A few years ago, when the event only had about 2,000 attendees and Google still hosted it on a rickety pier, Diane Greene had just taken over […] Continue reading Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene: “We’re playing the long game here”→

Swim.ai raises $11M to bring real-time analytics to the edge

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Once upon a time, it looked like cloud-based serviced would become the central hub for analyzing all IoT data. But it didn’t quite turn out that way because most IoT solutions simply generate too much data to do this effectively and the round-trip to the data center doesn’t work for applications that have to react […] Continue reading Swim.ai raises $11M to bring real-time analytics to the edge→

Google’s new ‘Grab and Go’ project helps business loan Chromebooks to their employees

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At Google, the company offers a ‘Grab and Go’ program that allows employees to use self-service stations to quickly borrow and return Chromebooks without having to go through a lengthy IT approval process. Now, it’s bringing this same idea to other businesses. Chromebooks have found their place in education and a number of larger enterprise […] Continue reading Google’s new ‘Grab and Go’ project helps business loan Chromebooks to their employees→

Google’s Apigee teams up with Informatica to extend its API ecosystem

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Google acquired API management service Apigee back in 2016 but it’s been pretty quiet around the service in recent years. Today, however, Apigee announced a number of smaller updates that introduce a few new integrations with the Google Cloud platform, as well as a major new partnership with cloud data management and integration firm Informatica […] Continue reading Google’s Apigee teams up with Informatica to extend its API ecosystem→

Microsoft launches new wide-area networking options for Azure

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Microsoft is launching a few new networking features today that will make it easier for businesses to use the company’s Azure cloud to securely connect their own offices and infrastructure using Azure and its global network. The first of these is the Azure Virtual WAN service, which allows businesses to connect their various branches to […] Continue reading Microsoft launches new wide-area networking options for Azure→

Microsoft wants to make you a better team player by nudging you into submission

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Microsoft announced a number of new tools for its MyAnalytics tool for Office 365 users today that are geared toward giving employees more data about how they work, as well as ways to improve how teams work together. In today’s businesses, everybody has to be a team player, after all, and if you want to […] Continue reading Microsoft wants to make you a better team player by nudging you into submission→

GitHub Enterprise and Business Cloud users now get access to public repos, too

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GitHub, the code hosting service Microsoft recently acquired, is launching a couple of new features for its business users today that’ll make it easier for them to access public repositories on the service. Traditionally, users on the hosted Business Cloud and self-hosted Enterprise were not able to directly access the millions of public open-source repositories […] Continue reading GitHub Enterprise and Business Cloud users now get access to public repos, too→

Datadog launches Watchdog to help you monitor your cloud apps

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Your typical cloud monitoring service integrates with dozens of service and provides you a pretty dashboard and some automation to help you keep tabs on how your applications are doing. Datadog has long done that but today, it is adding a new service called Watchdog, which uses machine learning to automatically detect anomalies for you. […] Continue reading Datadog launches Watchdog to help you monitor your cloud apps→

Broadcom acquires CA Technologies for $18.9B in cash

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Broadcom, the massive semiconductor supplier you may remember from its failed attempt to acquire Qualcomm, today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement with CA Technologies, a major IT management software and solutions provider. The price of the acquisition is $18.9 billion in cash. CA’s shareholders will receive $44.50 per share, a 20 percent […] Continue reading Broadcom acquires CA Technologies for $18.9B in cash→