Jaikumar Vijayan

Google has reportedly shut down a YouTube channel run by two video bloggers over concerns that it was used in a Russian disinformation campaign during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Videos on the channel were apparently available until this week and portrayed Donald Trump in a positive light while casting Hillary Clinton and her campaign […]

CHICAGO—Cloud ERP vendor Workday used the opening day of the Workday Rising customer conference here Oct. 10 to announce availability of its Workday Prism Analytics service based on technology from the company’s acquisition of Platfora last year. Workday also announced general availability of Workday Benchmarking, a data-as-a-Service (DaaS) offering that is designed to give organizations […]

Enterprises running capacity-hogging, memory-intensive workloads on Google’s cloud platform now have new high-performance system options for running them. Google on Oct. 5 introduced three new cloud machine types that support up to 96 virtual CPUs and 624GB of memory for high-performance workloads. The highest performing system in the lineup offers a 50 percent increase in […]

Google is drawing criticism for apparently promoting videos on YouTube that suggest the recent mass shooting in Las Vegas was a hoax or the result of a massive conspiracy. The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal on Oct. 5 reported seeing multiple videos questioning some of the basic facts around the shooting surfacing at or […]

Enterprises running workloads on Google’s cloud platform now have a way to enforce more granular polices for controlling user access to business data. The company on Oct. 3 announced the beta release of custom roles for Cloud Identity and Access Management, a feature that gives administrators more than 1,280 ways to grant users permissions to […]

Google has launched a beta-version of a new fully managed NoSQL document database service for its Firebase application development platform. The new Cloud Firestore database, announced Oct. 3 is designed to help mobile and web application developers using Firebase to store and synchronize application-related data. It supports multiple features designed specifically for cloud scale mobile […]

Google will no longer require news publishers with a paid subscription model to provide at least some free access to their content in order to ensure they get discovered in Google News and Google Search. After ten years of insisting that such publishers implement a so-called “First Click Free ” policy, Google on Monday said […]

U.S. government requests for user data held by Google reached an all time high in the first half of this year, Google’s latest Transparency Report, released Thursday, showed. Between January and June this year, the U.S. government put in 16,823 requests with Google for user data belonging to 33,709 accounts. That is the most data […]

Google has released more details about the company’s approach to authenticating and provisioning employee access to IT systems and services. Google has so far released four whitepapers describing various aspects of the approach, which it calls BeyondCorp. The previous papers have dealt with the technical challenges associated with implementing BeyondCorp, a so-called zero-trust approach that […]

Barely 10 days after Amazon announced a per-second billing option for customers of its Amazon Web Services cloud platform, Google has responded with a plan that extends per second billing to almost all Google Cloud Platform services. Up to now, Google has offered per-second billing for some of its cloud storage options and for those […]