Category Archives: Google Cloud Next 2019

Google Cloud makes some strong moves to differentiate itself from AWS and Microsoft

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Google Cloud held its annual customer conference, Google Cloud Next, this week in San Francisco. It had a couple of purposes. For starters it could introduce customers to new CEO Thomas Kurian for the first time since his hiring at the end of last year. And secondly, and perhaps more importantly, it could demonstrate that […] Continue reading Google Cloud makes some strong moves to differentiate itself from AWS and Microsoft→

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 Cloud takes aim at verticals starting with new set of tools for retailers

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Google might not be Adobe or Salesforce, but it has a particular set of skills, which fit nicely with retailer requirements and can over time help improve the customer experience, even if that means just simply making sure the website or app is running, even on peak demand. Today, at Google Cloud Next, the company […] Continue reading Google Cloud takes aim at verticals starting with new set of tools for retailers→

Google Cloud announces Traffic Director, a networking management tool for service mesh

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With each new set of technologies comes a new set of terms. In the containerized world, applications are broken down into discrete pieces or micro services. As these services proliferate, it creates a service mesh, a network of services and the interactions that take place as they interact. For each new technology like this, it […] Continue reading Google Cloud announces Traffic Director, a networking management tool for service mesh→

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→

Salesforce and Google want to build a smarter customer service experience

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Anyone who has dealt with bad customer service has felt frustration with the lack of basic understanding of who you are as a customer and what you need. Google and Salesforce feel your pain, and today the two companies expanded their partnership to try and create a smarter customer service experience. The goal is to […] Continue reading Salesforce and Google want to build a smarter customer service experience→

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→

Hangouts Chat is coming to Gmail for G Suite users

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The least said about Google’s messaging strategy, the better. But for better or worse, Hangouts Chat and Meet for G Suite, Google’s work-focused text and video chat tools are here to stay given that the one area where Google’s messaging strategy is clear is in the enterprise. With the end of the old Hangouts experience […] Continue reading Hangouts Chat is coming to Gmail for G Suite users→