Google Cloud tackles Spark on Kubernetes

Source: searchitoperations.techtarget.com Google Cloud Dataproc is the first major cloud provider to integrate Apache Spark with Kubernetes as a managed service, but work remains to better link the two projects upstream. An early version of a Google Cloud service that runs Apache Spark on Kubernetes is now available, but more work will be required to flesh out the container orchestration platform’s integrations with data analytics tools. Kubernetes and containers haven’t been renowned for their use in data-intensive, stateful applications, including

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Google Cloud gains OSPAR attestation for 75 cloud products

Source: datacenternews.asia Google Cloud has received Singapore’s Outsourced Service Provider Auditor Report (OSPAR) attestation for 75 of its cloud products, including Cloud Deployment Manager, Kubernetes Engine, and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). The OSPAR framework was established by the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS), which formulated IT security guidelines for outsourced service providers (OSPs) that seek to provide services to Singapore’s financial institutions. The guidelines specify the minimum required IT security controls that OSPs must offer if they wish to do

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Accenture Google Cloud Business Group Expands to Indonesia: Sees Indonesia’s growing middle class consumers as potential

Source: finance.yahoo.com JAKARTA, Indonesia, Sept. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Accenture and Google Cloud today announced the strategic expansion of their global partnership to build intelligent solutions and local expertise in order to help Indonesian enterprises modernize and accelerate their adoption of cloud technology. Together, the two organizations will develop tailored offerings for Indonesian customers in three main areas: enabling multi-channel customer interactions, improving data management, and creating services for hyper-personalization in marketing, sales and services. This collaboration will also leverage Google Cloud’s

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Google Cloud Unveils its Latest Version of Cloud Storage Connector for Hadoop; Helps to Substitute HDFS with Cloud Storage

Source: it.toolbox.com The latest version of the Cloud Storage Connector for Hadoop gives users increased throughput efficiency for columnar file formats such as Parquet and ORC and performance enhancements, like lower latency, increased parallelization, and intelligent defaults. Google Cloud Platform recently announced the latest version of the Cloud Storage Connector for Hadoop also called as GCS Connector. Cloud Storage Connector makes it simpler to replace the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) with Cloud Storage. This new release intends to provide

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Google Cloud-enabled app helping small farmers in India

Source: www.zeebiz.com The firm now uses Cloud-based analytics and is deploying machine learning (ML) models to provide timely advice in five languages — from seed optimization, crop rotation and soil nutrition to pest control and commodity price forecasting to small farmers. Nearly 70 per cent of small farmers — those cultivating fewer than three acres — in India often find their crops damaged by unforeseen weather and pests. An even higher number, 74 per cent, lack access to farming-related information.

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OneLedger Joins Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Deliver Fast Enterprise Blockchain Solutions

Source: coinspeaker.com OneLedger announced a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) who will provide cloud computing services that facilitate an on-demand environment for developing software applications An interoperable blockchain platform OneLedger announced their new partnership with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). GCP supplies cloud computing services that clear the way to an on-demand territory for developing, testing, delivering, and managing software applications. A wide array of businesses from various sectors are currently using GCP platform. By employing OneLedger’s full

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Cloud Formations: Pluralsight Builds Skills For Google Cloud Platform And Microsoft Azure

Source: forbes.com Building cloud computing clouds, just in case you hadn’t noticed, is complicated. Every time you buy a laptop or tablet from your favorite equipment manufacturer, you can pretty much be sure of the specifications, shape and power rating of the machine you have chosen from the à la carte set of product options on offer. Cloud menus are harder to navigate (and indeed to create) than that. Like a laptop, cloud computing ‘instances’ can differ by size, by

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What we learned from Google Cloud’s June outage

Source: techhq.com Cologne, Germany In early June 2019, Google Cloud suffered a cascading set of faults that rendered multiple service regions unavailable for several hours. This by itself isn’t totally unprecedented; what made it significant was the way it propagated through the very software that was designed to contain it. Moreover, engineers’ initial attempts to correct the issue were thwarted by the failure of that same software architecture. It was the interconnectedness and interdependencies of Google’s management components that contributed

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Infosys in spotlight on expanding partnership with Google Cloud

Source: business-standard.com Infosys announced that it has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to become a Google Cloud Managed Service Provider (MSP). This will include consulting, assessment, migration, optimization and support services for enterprises looking to optimize their workloads on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The announcement was made after market hours yesterday, 21 August 2019. With reference to media reports, Oberoi Realty informed that Income Tax authorities have initiated search and seizure operations at the premises of the company

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What enterprise IT teams can learn from Google Cloud’s June outage: A guide

Source: cloudcomputing-news.net In early June 2019, Google Cloud suffered a cascading set of faults that rendered multiple service regions unavailable for a number of hours. This by itself isn’t totally unprecedented; what made it significant was the way it propagated through the very software that was designed to contain it. Moreover, engineers’ initial attempts to correct the issue were thwarted by the failure of that same software architecture. It was the interconnectedness and interdependencies of Google’s management components that contributed

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Google Cloud, IBM, Intel, Microsoft Back New Effort To Encrypt Server Data

Source: crn.com ‘Whether running on your own servers on-prem, in an edge deployment or in the heart of a cloud service provider’s data center, this “in-use” data is almost always unencrypted and potentially vulnerable,’ Intel executive Lorie Wigle says of the problem that the Confidential Computing Consortium is tackling. Google Cloud, IBM, Intel and Microsoft are among large tech companies backing a new effort to help enterprises process encrypted server data in memory while shielding it from the rest of

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DXC Technology and Google Cloud Announce Global Partnership to Drive Innovation for Enterprises at Scale

Source: finance.yahoo.com Collaboration to deliver enterprise-grade, cloud-enabled solutions on Google Cloud Platform DXC Technology (DXC) today announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud that will enable enterprise clients to modernize their mission-critical IT and integrate digital solutions on Google Cloud Platform. With the strategic partnership, DXC is also launching a Google Cloud Platform Center of Excellence (COE) and a Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence (AI) COE to provide clients in key industries with secure, scalable and agile cloud-based digital platforms that

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Global Software Development Market Insights 2019 | AppSheet, Google Cloud Platform, GitHub, Zoho Creator, Azure, IntelliJ IDEA

Source: bitnomist.com Global Software Development market report study current trends, financial overview of the market and historical data evaluation based on the research insights and complete Software Development Market dynamics. Global Software Development are deeply examined based on global market share, size and revenue projection calculated by current market performance including drivers, trends and challenges. To have a clear understanding this report highlights leading companies, types, applications, and factors affecting the positive future forecast. The report likewise incorporates a point by point

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Interview – Rob Enslin explains how Google Cloud can win in the enterprise

Source: diginomica.com Enslin joined Google Cloud after almost three decades at SAP. With Enslin heading up sales, and Thomas Kurian at the helm as CEO, can Google Cloud bring data outcomes to the enterprise? On a call last week with Google Cloud’s recently appointed President of Global Customer Operations, Rob Enslin, I asked him – if there were one message you’d like to get out to enterprise buyers, what would it be? His response:  We are very good at solving

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CloudBees and Google Cloud accelerate app development in hybrid and public cloud environments

Source: helpnetsecurity.com CloudBees, the enterprise DevOps leader powering the continuous economy, and Google Cloud, announced that the two companies are collaborating to deliver a modern DevOps platform based on open source technologies powered by Google Cloud’s Anthos CloudBees provides companies large and small with Jenkins-based continuous delivery solutions that are secure, open toolchain-enabled and scalable to transform software delivery processes across hybrid computing environments. Google Cloud is delivering to enterprises a secure, open, intelligent and transformative enterprise cloud platform. Anthos,

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Google Cloud Partners With Enterprise Blockchain Platform Cypherium

Source: cointelegraph.com Ubiquitous tech behemoth Google cloud wing is entering into another partnership with a blockchain platform, Cypherium.  Cypherium announced the new partnership in a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Aug. 13. Cypherium describes its product, Cypherium Enterprise, as an enterprise-focused blockchain platform with a focus on scalability and decentralization. As a result of this partnership, Google Cloud customers will have access to Cypherium’s blockchain solutions, as per the announcement. As per the press release, Cypherium purports to offer

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Azure licensing update gives rivals AWS and Google Cloud new talking points

Source: onmsft.com Earlier this week Microsoft updated the terms for its on-premises license transferring to hyper-scale clouds and the change has given its rivals some new ammunition in their war for cloud service provider supremacy. We’re updating the outsourcing terms for Microsoft on-premises licenses to clarify the distinction between on-premises/traditional outsourcing and cloud services and create more consistent licensing terms across multitenant and dedicated hosted cloud services. Beginning October 1, 2019, on-premises licenses purchased without Software Assurance and mobility rights

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What’s behind the Google Cloud and VMware partnership?

Source: channelasia.tech Last week the two vendors announced a deep integration, allowing customers to run virtualised workloads on Google Cloud Platform, so what does that mean for the market and who are the target customers? Following the announcement last month of a major partnership with Google Cloud, VMware workloads can now be run on all three of the major cloud infrastructure providers, as well as Alibaba and IBM. The deal clearly signals VMware’s desire to set itself up as a

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DXC Teams With Google Cloud As Customers Shift Workloads

Source: crn.com The move comes as the company announced lower revenues, which sent its share price plunging to its lowest-ever point, down $16.72 or 32.37 percent in Friday morning trading Fresh off a deal with Microsoft Azure, DXC Technology announced a new “strategic partnership” with Google Cloud yesterday under which the Tysons, Va. systems integrator will also launch centers of excellence for the Google Cloud Platform. “This partnership will allow us to modernize mission-critical IT for enterprise clients and integrate

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Google Cloud and AWS execs slam Microsoft over changes to cloud licensing

Source: channelweb.co.uk Microsoft says customers will no longer be able to use their on-prem licences when moving to single-tenanted public cloud servers Senior execs from Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have slammed Microsoft over changes to how it charges customers using its software on other public clouds. Microsoft announced that it would be changing how its customers can use their on-prem licences on the dedicated servers from four cloud providers: AWS, Alibaba, Amazon and Google, plus Microsoft itself. It twinned

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