Jaikumar Vijayan

Google has launched a new effort to help enterprises implement a program similar to one the company is using internally that allows employees to quickly borrow a Chromebook in case their primary device stops working or isn’t immediately available.  Google says more than 30,000 employees have used its ‘Grab and Go’ program to loan out […]

The European Commission has slapped Google with a record-breaking $5 billion fine for imposing illegal restrictions on Android device manufacturers to further the company’s dominance in internet search. In a decision that has been widely expected for some time, the European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager gave Google 90 days to change its allegedly infringing […]

Google has implemented a new ‘Site Isolation’ feature in the latest version of its Chrome browser that the company says will help organizations better protect against attacks of the sort enabled by the Spectre processor flaws disclosed earlier this year.  The feature has been available on an experimental basis to enterprises since Chrome 63 but […]

Google and Informatica have announced a partnership aimed at helping enterprises more easily connect applications and services across multi-vendor cloud and on-premise environments.  The partnership gives organizations a unified platform—the Informatica Integration Cloud for Apigee—to develop, manage and integrate application programming interfaces (APIs) that connect applications and data, the two companies announced this week.  The […]

Google has released a new open-source tool for verifying PostgreSQL (Postgres) database backups.  Enterprises using the PostgresSQL can use the tool to verify if any data corruption or data loss has occurred when backing up their database.  Google is already using the tool for customers of Google Cloud SQL for Postgres. Starting this week, it […]

Google has introduced a new cloud-billing feature that it says will enable enterprises to budget costs better by allowing them to quickly see how much they are likely to spend on cloud usage in a particular month.  The new forecasting feature lets administrators see how costs are trending during a particular month and how much […]

Google wants to make it easier for Java developers to containerize their applications. The company this week announced Jib, an open-source Java tool that it says will enable developers to build Java containers more easily using tools with which they are already familiar. In a blog post July 9, Google software engineers Appu Goundan and […]

Google this week found itself on the defensive after the Wall Street Journal published a lengthy report the practice by the company and some other email provides of allowing third-party software developers to access the contents of email messages of people using their apps.  In a blog July 3, Google Cloud’s director of security, trust […]

Google is reviewing the manner in which it responds to potential fraudulent activity involving cloud customer accounts following criticism over a recent incident in which the company briefly shut down a customer’s critical production application without warning.  In its Medium blog July 2, Google engineering support regional lead Brian Bender apologized for suspending services on […]

Google has shared more details of its efforts to implement BeyondCorp a security approach the company has been using internally for years to control access to enterprise systems and data.  In a blog July 2, Max Saltonstall, technical director of Google’s office of the CTO said the company was releasing the information so other organizations […]