Category Archives: Google Cloud Next 2018

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

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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, but the two companies continue to work closely together. Today at Google Next, they announced an expansion of their partnership around Google’s new CI/CD tool, […] Continue reading GitHub and Google reaffirm partnership with Cloud Build CI/CD tool integration→

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

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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 Google Drive. Only a few years ago, the company was still bolting its solution on top of Gmail without Google’s blessing, but these days, Google […] Continue reading Virtru teams up with Google to bring its end-to-end encryption service to Google Drive→

Google is baking machine learning into its BigQuery data warehouse

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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 lot of data back and forth between their data warehouses and wherever they are building their models. Google is now making this part of the […] Continue reading Google is baking machine learning into its BigQuery data warehouse→

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

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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 or need access to the rest of the company’s productivity tools. Starting today, though, these businesses will be able to buy a subscription to a […] Continue reading Google launches a standalone version of Drive for businesses that don’t want the full G Suite→

Google takes on Yubico and builds its own hardware security keys

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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 has long championed as the de facto standard for hardware-based two-factor authentication for Gmail and other services. The FIDO-compatible Titan keys will come in […] Continue reading Google takes on Yubico and builds its own hardware security keys→

Google brings its search technology to the enterprise

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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 no more, but Google today announced the spiritual successor to it with an update to Cloud Search. Until today, Cloud Search only indexed G Suite […] Continue reading Google brings its search technology to the enterprise→

Google Cloud introduces shielded VMs for additional security

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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. To meet those requirements, Google introduced shielded virtual machines at Google Next today. As Google describes it, “Shielded VMs leverage advanced platform security capabilities to […] Continue reading Google Cloud introduces shielded VMs for additional security→

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

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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 help attract a whole host of new users. Google voice has been a long-enjoyed service for everyday consumers, and offers a lot of benefits beyond […] Continue reading Google is rolling out a version of Google Voice for enterprise G Suite customers→

Google’s Cloud Functions serverless platform is now generally available

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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 in San Francisco today. Google first announced Cloud Functions back in 2016, so this has been a long beta. Overall, it also always seemed as […] Continue reading Google’s Cloud Functions serverless platform is now generally available→

Google announces a suite of updates to its contact center tools

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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 most common enterprise functions, including contact centers. Now Google is applying a lot of those learnings in a bunch of new updates for its contact […] Continue reading Google announces a suite of updates to its contact center tools→